It's another leap into the unknown for Andrea Pirlo and for Juventus, who are entrusting their mega-investment in Cristiano Ronaldo -- $375 million over four years in wages and transfer fee -- and their perennial hunt for the Champions League to a new manager who, until last month, had coached zero minutes of football. But Pirlo has been here before. It may look as if his bearded savant, cool-as-the-other-side-of-the-pillow (cit. Stuart Scott) persona means everything has come easily for him, and that he's been nourished on a diet of certainties and perpetual upward travel, but this is far from the case.
Juventus and Pirlo are gambling that the legendary player can get the best out of Ronaldo & Co. as manager
