Where are they now? Juventus' unbeaten 2012 title winners 🏆 | OneFootball

In the 2011/12 season, Juventus ended their long wait for Serie A glory.

They did in some style too, spearheaded by new boss Antonio Conte to an incredible unbeaten campaign – the first side ever to do so in Italy in a 38-game season.

That particular feat was achieved on the final weekend but the Scudetto itself was won the previous week with a 2-0 win at Cagliari.

We reflect on the Juve squad who featured on that penultimate day of the season and look at what they’re up to now.

STARTING XI

Gianluigi Buffon

There’s just no stopping the Italian veteran who is still going strong and is just one appearance away from setting a new all-time appearance record in Serie A (he’s currently level with Paolo Maldini on 647).

He did leave for a brief spell in France with Paris Saint-Germain but returned home last year.

Andrea Barzagli

Last year, he hung up his boots and received an emotional standing ovation after his final appearance and just last week, he announced that he was leaving his position on the club’s coaching staff for personal reasons.

Leonardo Bonucci

Like Buffon, Bonucci is another who was a club hero who left for a short stint elsewhere before returning to Turin, where he is still an important player today.

However, he wasn’t welcomed back with open arms like the goalkeeper as his controversial move to Milan left a bitter taste in many fans’ mouths.

His return and subsequent zealous celebration after scoring against the Bianconeri and comments afterwards further dented his reputation, one which will never recover in the eyes of many supporters.

Giorgio Chiellini

What do they put in the water at the Italian champions? Chiellini is another stalwart who is still going strong at the club almost a decade later.

There were grave concerns about his career, which appeared in jeopardy after he ruptured his ACL in the opening game of the current season, but he has made a full recovery and actually seems set to secure a new deal with the Old Lady.

Stephan Lichtsteiner

The marauding Swiss wing-back was a man reborn under Conte and appeared in all but two of Juve’s fixtures in that title-winning campaign but the win in Sardinia wasn’t too enjoyable for him – he was knocked unconscious following an aerial collision with Mauricio Pinilla.

His Juve career ended in 2018 with a missed penalty in his final game and he left for Arsenal, where he was a major disappointment and is now in Germany, where he is hoping to keep Augsburg in the Bundesliga.

Arturo Vidal

‘The Pitbull’ was a massively popular figure in Turin, where his combination of quality and commitment went down a treat with fans, despite off-field issues cropping up every so often.

He left in 2015 for Bayern Munich and is now at Spanish champions Barcelona, where he continues to be linked with a move back to Italy to join Juve’s old rivals Inter.

Andrea Pirlo

The coolest footballer of his generation joined Juve that summer after being deemed surplus to requirements by his old club Milan and he showed what a foolish decision that was.

Pirlo played more league games that season for his new employers than any other player (featuring in all but one) and went on to enjoy continued success over the next five years.

He left for New York City FC in 2015 and retired there two years later. He is set to move into coaching next season for the first time but dismissed reports this month that he would take over Juve’s Under-23 side.

Claudio Marchisio

A local lad from a family of mad season ticket-holding Juventini, Marchisio joined the club at the age of seven and many had hoped he would play out his entire career with the Old Lady.

But his quarter-century association with his boyhood heroes came to an end in 2018 after a very successful spell and he left to join Zenit.

Marchisio lasted just one year in Russia before hanging up his boots. He is now studying on a sports management course and hopes to return to Juve again in some capacity in the future.

Simone Pepe

Although Pepe never hit the heights he managed in this season when he exceeded expectations again, he was nonetheless an important cog in the system for this side.

It may surprise you that he actually lasted five years in Turin, although made just 14 total league appearances in the three seasons that followed this one.

He retired in 2017 after spells at Chievo and Pescara and is now working as an agent.

Mirko Vučinić

It was Vučinić’s goal in this game, one of nine in the league that season, which set Juve on their way after just six minutes – sweeping the ball home at the near post to get the party started.

He left in 2014 and saw out his career in Abu Dhabi but today has opted for a change of sport.

You can now find the Montenegrin competing on the golf circuit.

Alessandro Matri

Has there ever been a more unlikely and short-lived success story in recent Serie A memory that Matri?

Getting a tune out of the lumbering and clumsy former Cagliari forward remains one of Conte’s greatest feats in coaching – with Matri top scoring that season for Juve with 10.

His post-Juve spells took him to six different clubs with little success (including a goal-less return to Juve on loan) and he hung up his boots just this month at the age of 35.

SUBSTITUTES

Marco Storari

Storari, who didn’t get off the bench against his old club, was one of those players who seemed old even when he was playing – perhaps by virtue of not arriving in Serie A until he was 27.

He is only 43 though and is set to return to Juve in a boardroom role when the coronavirus crisis calms.

Martín Cáceres

Why did these players ever leave Juve? The Uruguayan is the latest example of one of this squad leaving only to return to Turin again for a third spell. He’s still going strong at 33 with Fiorentina.

Marcelo Estigarribia

Estigarribia spent the 2011/12 campaign on loan at Juve with his most memorable moment coming with a goal at Napoli in a 3-3 draw, that strike setting Juve up for a late comeback.

They declined to take up their option to buy for €5m and he is now at Club Atlético Colón – his seventh loan spell in the last eight years!

Emanuele Giaccherini

Conte’s favourite son. He even made it into the former Juve man’s Italy squads when he took that job. Today, he can be found in Serie B slogging it out with Chievo.

Marco Borriello

The well-travelled striker was the final Juve sub introduced in Sardinia. It is a little harder to keep track of him these days. He was last season on the field at Ibiza where he was also working in a director’s role but it is unclear if he is still in that position today.

Fabio Quagliarella

Quagliarella was an unused substitute on Juve’s coronation but did appear in 23 games that season and contributed four goals.

He’s still going strong today for both club and country at the age of 37. Just last year, he finished as Serie A top scorer with 26 and equalled Gabriel Batistuta’s record of netting in 11 straight games.

Alessandro Del Piero

One of the greatest players ever to pull on the Juventus jersey, it was disappointing to see him sat unused on the bench on their night of triumph.

These days, the Italian legend is living it up in Los Angeles, where he owns a restaurant and a football club, LA 10 FC, which bears his famous number and competes in the United Premier Soccer League.