5 famous players who donned the No.7 jersey at Juventus before Cristiano Ronaldo

#5 Juan Cuadrado

Juan Cuadrado in the Juventus v Juventus U19 pre-season friendly

The last man to wear the No.7 jersey before Cristiano Ronaldo, Juan Cuadrado was born on the 26th of May 1988 in Necocli in Colombia beginning his football career in Atletico Uraba before joining Colombian giants Independiente Medellin, where he made his professional debut.

After a year with the Colombian outfit, Cuadrado took the usual route taken by every South American, flying off to Europe to ply his trade in the Seria A joining Udinese in 2009. The initial year at the Stadio Friuli was very hard as the winger was loaned out to Leece after 2-years with the club. It was at Leece that Fiorentina took notice of the blistering young Colombian, signing the then 24-year old from Udinese after some impressive performance for Leece.

After 3-years with La Viola, the Colombian winger joined Premier League giants Chelsea in 2015 only to see himself reduced to the bench in his 2-years with the club. in 2017 the winger was on the move again joining Italian giants Juventus permanently after appearing for the record Seria A champions for the past two seasons on loan from Chelsea, owning the No7 shirt for the last 2 seasons after the departure of Simeone Zaza.

A tactically intelligent player Cuadrado can be used as a winger or a wingback or even as a second striker and possess blistering pace while being excellent on one-on-one situations.

La Vespa as he is known to the Juve faithful has so far made 116 appearances and scored 13 times for the Bianconeri.

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Notable names to be exempted includes former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, World cup winner and winning manager Didier Deschamps, Simeone Zaza and Hasan Salihamidizic. The first 2 players being exempted on the reason involving the players being given the jersey number according to the position in which they were deployed in.