Jonah Ward
Congratulations, Jonah! You’ve made it!
We remember when you first joined Juventus Academy Shanghai in April 2018, just after moving to this city with your family. With your determination, constant commitment, and hard work, you have improved year after year. During these six years, you have scored many goals, provided assists, and helped your teammates achieve team goals, always demonstrating impeccable behavior, modesty, and outstanding manners.
Now that you have reached this age, it is only right that you continue your football and personal growth in an environment that lives and breathes football 24 hours a day, while chasing after your dreams.
Thanks to the continuous exchange of information regarding you between our academy in Shanghai and the headquarters in Turin, we are convinced that Juventus have first selected, then monitored you for a while, and ultimately chose a player who will make us very proud in the near future.
This is our job: at the youth level, winning matches and trophies is not the priority. Instead, it is to develop the potential of individual players, shaping them into good people first, and then perhaps, as happened with you, helping them chase a dream.
We are convinced that this new step at the Juventus Residency Academy is a move closer to achieving your dreams, and ours, of seeing you celebrate, in front of crowds shouting your name.
We look forward to receiving one of your first jerseys, signed, where we will frame it and hang it in our office next to those of Trezeguet, Ravanelli, Chiellini, Ronaldo, and Dybala.
Until the end, Forza Juve and Forza Jonah！！！