Ghana midfielder won a second – and Juventus’ third – consecutive Serie A title without playing on Sunday when AS Roma, their only remaining challengers, lost 4-1 at lowly Catania on a weekend overshadowed by shootings before the Italian Cup final.<\/p>\n
Juventus players celebrated their record 30th title in the guest house which the team uses as a pre-match retreat after watching Roma’s dramatic collapse on television.<\/p>\n
“This is wonderful,” Asamoah said shortly before kickoff.<\/p>\n
“It is the second time I\u2019ve won a Scudetto without playing, as it happened about 10 years ago. It\u2019s different, a special sensation, but still wonderful,\u201d goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon told Mediaset.<\/p>\n
“Of course I prefer the satisfaction of winning on the field and that moment the whistle blows and you have given everything you\u2019ve got, both physical and psychological.”<\/p>\n
Defender Giorgio Chiellini added: “It was an incredible journey and we\u2019re not finished as we want to become the first Serie A club to amass 100 points.”<\/p>\n
Juve’s title, however, came on an awful weekend for Italian football thanks to the events before Saturday’s Cup final between Napoli and Fiorentina in Rome.<\/p>\n
Police said on Sunday they had arrested a 48-year-old Roma supporter, Daniele De Santis, for shooting and wounding three Napoli fans with a pistol.<\/p>\n
The shootings preceded ugly scenes inside Rome’s Olympic Stadium, where supporters threw flares and smoke bombs, delayed the start of the final and jeered the national anthem.<\/p>\n
With so much else going on, AC Milan’s 1-0 derby win over Inter, courtesy of a second-half header by Nigel de Jong, was reduced to a mere sideshow. Both teams are battling for a Europa League place with Inter fifth on 57 points and Milan eighth on 54.<\/p>\n
Roma, who had bravely kept their challenge going by winning their last nine games, inexplicably produced one of their worst performances of the season against the Sicilian strugglers.<\/p>\n
Source: AP and Football Italia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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