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    Montreal hosted the French Super Cup game in July 2009 and could host its Italian counterpart, the Italian Super Cup this summer when Serie A champions Juventus faces Coppa Italia holders Lazio.

    The game was originally scheduled for August 10 in Beijing (for a third straight year and the fourth time in the last five seasons), but Juventus’ presence in the inaugural International Champions Cup tournament in the United States until August 7 convinced Italian authorities to look for a different solution.

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    “We have to honour the contract for Beijing, but if Juventus, for their own reasons, do not feel able to play in China but elsewhere, we must have the same revenue that we were guaranteed in Beijing,” said Lazio’s president Claudio Lotito to Italian media on Monday.

    “In the USA? We are willing to play there but only with the same income.”

    The New York area was first looked at by the Italian league authories, but the heavy summer football schedule in the Big Apple have apparently convinced them to look north of the border.

    CSN has learned that negotiations are underway with Toronto and Montreal to explore the possibility of holding the game at Rogers Centre or at Olympic Stadium.

    If the project comes to fruition, it would be the seventh time since 1993 that this super cup match is played out of Italy. In 1993, Milan defeated Torino 1-0 before 25,000 fans in Washington and in 2003, Juventus defeated AC Milan on PK with over 54,000 in attendance at Giants Stadium in New York.

    The 2002 game was played in Tripoli, Libya, a 2-1 Juve win over Parma. Current Impact player Marco Di Vaio scored the lone goal for Parma in the loss. In 2009, 2011 and 2012 this preseason battle was fought in Beijing, China.



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