04 May 2023
Juventus travel to Atalanta for Sunday's lunchtime kick-off. This fixture has always featured players that have turned out for both clubs.
Some of these wore the colours long term, some less so. In the backdrop photo Leonardo Spinazzola attempts to thwart an attack by Juan Cuadrado. In the 2018/19 season, the two were teammates for a brief spell in black and white.
MANUEL LOCATELLI
Before bursting on the scene with Milan, Manuel Locatelli grew up at the vaunted Atalanta Academy for five seasons in his formative years. The midfielder is enjoying a second season at the team he has always supported, Juve.
DEJAN KULUSEVSKI
One of the most important products of the flourishing youth sector from Bergamo has been Dejan Kulusevski. As a Juventus player, the Swede faced his former club, also scoring against them, in the 2020-21 Coppa Italia final.
ANDREA MASIELLO
Andrea Masiello spent a brief period in the black and white striped shirt. The experienced defender is seen in the photo tracking Gonzalo Higuain in Atalanta-Juventus from season 2017/18.
Masiello came through the Juve Academy, and it was with the youth team that he won the prestigious international Viareggio Cup in 2004 and 2005 before making his debut in Serie A with Fabio Capello as coach. Although he made just one official appearance with the Bianconeri, in Bergamo he clocked up 185 appearances in his eight and a half seasons from 2011 to 2020.
GIAN PIERO GASPERINI
Gian Piero Gasperini has been successfully coaching Atalanta for seven years. His first steps in the coaching world came inside the Juventus Academy, in charge of various teams in the youth sector for a decade, working his way up until he landed the job in charge of the Primavera.
It was also with Juventus Primavera that he had grown up as a player in the '70s, making his debut in the first team in the Coppa Italia, the competition in which he made all of his nine Juve appearances.
GIANFRANCO LEONCINI
Going farther back in time, Gianfranco Leoncini was at Juventus for more than a decade, from 1958 to 1970, collecting 384 appearances. After six trophies with the Bianconeri, he moved to Atalanta, where he would spend three of the next four campaigns before hanging up his boots in 1974.
Next to Leoncini in the photo from the club's birthday party in 2006 is Pietro Anastasi, who made his league debut with Juventus in Bergamo, scoring twice.
