At the beginning of the UEFA 2016 -2017 season , Lichtsteiner was excluded from the Juventus team .
At the beginning of the 2016–17 season , Lichtsteiner was excluded from Juventus 's squad for the UEFA Champions League group stage ; this was due to the fact that the club had signed rightback Dani Alves , and had already filled their squad quota , as Juventus were also required to have four club youth products in the 25-men squad , even though initially the only former youth product in the first team was Claudio Marchisio .
Stephan Lichtsteiner