1949–50 Juventus F.C. season

The team clinched its 8th title despite a colossal 1–7 home defeat against Milan with a superb hat-trick of Swedish striker Gunnar Nordahl. The championship was a reward to chairman Gianni Agnelli who built this team buying Danish players unknown at the time. In the summer he transferred in an Argentinian midfielder Rinaldo Martino from San Lorenzo to boost the club performance.[2]

In this season, Jesse Carver replaced fellow Englishman William Chalmers as head coach of Juventus, and a less rigid and physically demanding training schedule paid off for Hansen. In the club, Hansen had an irreplaceable partner in another Danish player from the 1948 Olympics team, Karl Aage Præst. Præst was a left winger with electric dribbling skills who scattered opponents through the field and produced precise crosses to Hansen, who netted them thanks to his violent and accurate headers.[3] Juventus won the 1949–50 Serie A championship with Hansen scoring 28 goals in 37 games.[4]

Source:[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  ITA Filippo Cavalli — GK  ITA Giovanni Viola — DF  ITA Alberto Bertuccelli — DF  ITA Sergio Manente — DF  ITA Pietro Rava — MF  ITA Romolo Bizzotto — MF  ITA Giacomo Mari — MF  ARG Rinaldo Martino — MF  ITA Carlo Parola

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ITA Alberto Piccinini — FW  ITA Giampiero Boniperti — FW  DEN John Hansen — FW  ITA Amos Mariani — FW  ITA Ermes Muccinelli — FW  DEN Karl Aage Præst — FW  ITA Ermanno Scaramuzzi — FW  ITA Pasquale Vivolo

• Fabrizio Melegari (a cura di). Almanacco illustrato del calcio - La storia 1898-2004, Modena. Panini, 2004.
• Fabrizio Melegari e Luigi La Rocca. Storia del Campionato Italiano dal 1947-48 al 1949-50; Calciatori 1964-65. edizione speciale per "La Gazzetta dello Sport" Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, Modena, 2005.