ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO scored twice in Juventus’ 3-0 win against Atalanta Sunday, kick-starting the Turin club’s campaign to defend the Italian Serie A title it wrapped up on the final day of last season.

　　Meanwhile, last season’s sensation Chievo edged 2000 champion Lazio 3-2 and Udinese tied Parma 1-1.

　　In the two evening matches, Roberto Baggio began his 21st season as a professional in Brescia’s 2-1 loss to Piacenza and Perugia defeated newly-promoted Reggina 2-0 as the Italian league completed its first weekend of play after a two-week delay.

　　In Turin, Salvatore Fresi scored the third in the 90th minute on a long shot that went just inside the post.

　　With French striker David Trezeguet sidelined by a knee injury, Del Piero was joined by newly-signed forward Marco Di Vaio on the Turin club’s front line.

　　In Rome, Chievo beat Lazio on midfielder Ivano Della Morte’s angled shot in the 71st minute at Stadio Olimpico.

　　German striker Oliver Bierhoff, the former AC Milan star signed from France’s Monaco, and defender Lorenzo D’Anna also scored for Chievo.

　　Diego Simeone and Bernardo Corradi scored for Lazio, playing its first match since transferring its two biggest stars — former captain Alessandro Nesta (to Milan) and Argentine striker Hernan Crespo (to Inter Milan) — two weeks ago, had gone ahead only five minutes into the game.

　　In Brescia, while the 35-year-old Baggio showed he could still direct his team’s offense with his usual poise, it was Piacenza’s 35-year-old Dario Hubner scorer that won the match.

　　Brescia midfielder Jonathan Bachini had given his club the lead in the 68th minute, and Piacenza’s 19-year-old Colombian forward Johnnier Montano had evened the match in the 72nd.

　　In Perugia, Reggina made its return to Serie A after one season in Serie B, and the only southern squad in the league produced several valiant scoring attempts, including a header off the cross bar by Alessandro Pierini in the 25th minute.

　　Reggina’s new Japanese striker Shunzuke Nakamura also pressured Perugia’s goal to no avail and the Umbrian squad prevailed 2-0 on scores by Fabrizio Miccoli and Giovanni Tedesco.

　　(SD-Agencies)