Champions League: Monaco-Juventus, played for both

Juventus.com profiles the 11 players to have played for both Juventus and Monaco over the years

The road between Monte Carlo and Turin has become a well-trodden one in the football world, with as many as 11 players crossing the Alps to represent both Monaco and Juventus over the course of the past 25 years.

From Barros to Trezeguet via Evra and Henry, Juventus.com retraces them all and discovers their impacts on either side of the border:

The French

David Trezeguet

Where else to start besides David Trezeguet, a hero either side of the border for his scoring exploits with both clubs and at national level for his native France.

David’s ten-year spell in Turin yielded 171 league goals in 319 games, four Scudetto titles and two Italian Super Cups, making the prolific Frenchman the Bianconeri’s all-time foreign marksman.

Before becoming Re David in Italy, the Juventus Legends president had an equally impressive strike rate in Monte Carlo where his 61 strikes in 111 appearances for Monaco – not to mention two Ligue 1 trophies and a French Super Cup – earned him the attention of Europe’s top clubs between 1996 and 2000.

Thierry Henry

While it would be in London with Arsenal that Thierry Henry made his name as one of the Premier League all-time top scorers, it was on the Cote d’Azur that the winger-turned-striker first made his mark as a professional.

After four seasons, 22 strikes and a French champions medal to his name, Henry made the short journey south to Turin in 1999 where he would feature in just 19 league games before joining Arsene Wenger at Highbury the following year.

Patrice Evra

Patrice Evra – the most recent representative of either side – appeared in two of four career Champions League finals with Monaco in 2004 and Juventus in 2015. In between, the veteran full-back – now of Marseille – sealed back to back domestic doubles for the Old Lady after turning out 156 times for the Red and Whites in a four-year spell from 2002 to 2006.

Source:   juventus.com