Cristiano Ronaldo scores on Juventus v Juventus

In a small Italian town with a population of 4,000, 5,000 fans filled the stadium to watch Cristiano Ronaldo score eight minutes to his first appearance in a Juventus shirt.

The club's annual raisers - friendly matches against Juventus B teams - are held annually by the owner of the Old Lady, the Agnelli family, in the small town of Villar Perosa, outside Turin.

Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo, 33, who signed from Real Madrid for £ 99.2m in July, scored the first goal and scored the other goal in Sunday's 5-0 win, which attracted great interest.

The city's population swelled before the match, when bars and restaurants were filled with fans and media.

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Fans chanted "Ronaldo, taking us to the Champions League" for a cameo 45 minutes and one supporter tried to embrace new number seven as he left the field at half time.

The match was abandoned after 72 minutes because of the annual tradition of fans running into the field.

After the match, players sign autographs and pose for photos, while defender Leonardo Bonucci - who has rejoined the club after a year with AC Milan - was stripped of his underwear.

"Now the best team in the world has the best players in the world," said John Elkann, chairman of Fiat, a company founded by the Agnelli family. "It is very good to see what suits him naturally [Ronaldo] is in a black-and-white shirt and how well he is placed in the team.

"Villar Perosa brought the Juve family together. This is a one-time moment, unique to Juventus, for everyone who loves the Bianconeri."

The Agnelli family has invited teams to play friendships every year since 1955. Juventus B won its first match 3-2, but they have never beaten the first team in a match since 2005.

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