Background
He was born in Switzerland and moved at a very early age to Turin.
He was born in Switzerland and moved at a very early age to Turin.
He was the manager of a leather and footwear company as well as a businessman with modern ideas but a difficult temperament and moody behaviour. Dick was the president of Juventus Football Club from 1905 to 1906, a period in which he was responsible for providing the Club with a consistent and solid organisational structure, for giving the first membership cards to the foreigners and for enabling the "Bianconeri" players to train on a proper football field in the proximity of the Velodrome Umberto I, a completely different pitch compared to the one in Piazza d"Armi (until then used for such training purposes). The following year — in 1906 — when it came the time to vote for the renewal of the presidency, Dick was ousted by the board of directors of the White-Blacks.
Consequently, as a result of this dismissal and because of the shift towards professionalism strived for by most of the Club"s members, he sensationally left the Juventus Football Club.
Alfred Dick died suddenly at the age of 44 in August of 1909.
Followed in this decision by a group of dissidents, he then approached some of his fellow citizens — members of the Torinese Football Club — and co-founded the brand new Torino Football Club later that year.