Claim: Eugenio Canfari played a sport.

Eugenio Canfari -LRB- 16 April 1877 -- 23 March 1962 -RRB- was an early Italian football player from Genoa who played as a defender . He was one of the thirteen men who founded Juventus in 1897 and the club 's first ever president . His brother Enrico Canfari was also a founding member of Juventus , and was the first ever president , though he never played in the Italian Football Championship with Enrico and Juventus .