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Italian Scandal
someone of Juventus confessed that the referree selections were manipulated: the referrees that he knew/trained/paid (pick what is right  )were selected to watch some of the Juventus games
the scandal has consequences for the whole Italian league: they are not allowed to play in the intertoto cup |
| Wed Jun 07, 2006 6:47 pm |
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| Quote: |  Cannavaro & Trezeguet linked in Italian scandal
ROME (AP) - Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro and France striker David Trezeguet were questioned separately on Saturday as prosecutors continue investigating the soccer scandal rocking the nation.
Both players are contracted to Juventus, and Cannavaro's home was allegedly searched a few weeks ago as part of a probe into the Turin club.
Cannavaro said afterward prosecutors were "satisfied" with his answers, ANSA quoted him as saying.
"I answered everything, and they told me that they won't call me for questioning any more," he told ANSA. "It lasted an hour. I cleared up every doubt the prosecutors had. They asked me to do only one thing - not to talk about the topics which were discussed today."
Aided by wiretaps, prosecutors in Rome, Parma, Turin and Naples are investigating allegations of match-fixing, illegal betting, manipulation of referee assignments and suspected false bookkeeping.
"Wiretapped conversations? It is too soon to talk about them, let's see what happens," Trezeguet was quoted as saying by Italian news agency ANSA before he was questioned by Rome prosecutors.
Rome prosecutors are investigating player agency company GEA World, which controls more than half of Italy's Serie A players.
The scandal is centered on Juventus and its former general manager, Luciano Moggi. He and the entire Juventus board resigned, and the team faces possible relegation just weeks after winning its record 29th Serie A title. Lazio, AC Milan and Fiorentina have also been implicated.
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also milan involved?
| Quote: | Milan Follows Juve Path in Italian Scandal
The Milan officials were caught talking to referees before Serie A matches
You can never get enough of writing about the Italian scandal that arose in Serie A three weeks ago. How could that not be, since every day brings something new to the story? The latest: Milan is also very much involved with the “fixing-matches” scandal, through referee pressure.
Not long before this week, Fabio Cannavaro and Luciano Moggi were saying that what Juventus did concerning the talks they had with the referees is a common thing among the Serie A officials. And, if you thought that the two were just trying to give Juve a break, you’re dead wrong. Another series of phone recordings were released to the public by the same “Corriere della Sera” Italian newspaper, in which one of Milan’s officials was having a “Moggi style conversation” with one of the top refereeing executives in the peninsula.
In other words, Leonardo Meani, after Milan lost a game in 2005 at Siena, was threatening one of the linesmen to be “very careful the next time” on a telephone call. More, Meani called the chief of Italian refereeing and said that Adriano Galliani – who, besides being the Milan president, is also the president of the Italian Football League – is “very angry with him because of the refereeing”.
Still, Galliani refuses to let go of his Italian Football League presidency, saying that he is not guilty of anything and that he has a clear conscience. After Moggi declared earlier this week that he felt “stabbed in the back” by Galliani, the Italian prosecutors started taking things more seriously concerning the Milan boss. So, Milan is now in the position of having the same fate as rivals Juventus, if the FIGC officials find out that they too are implicated in the “fixing matches” scandal.
To the present time, if we were to make a short recap, the clubs most affected by the scandal are: Juventus, Fiorentina, Milan, Lazio and Inter. Of course, there are many more along them, but these are the best known. So here we are, approximately 2 months away from the start of the next Serie A season, with most of the teams endangered by the prospect of playing in the Serie B next year. So, I wonder, who has the time now to focus on the World Cup?
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damn, if Milan is also involved it will not be looking pretty next season |
| Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:31 am |
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doggiedog
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this will hit seria a hard and they mite suspend the teams invoved if most of the team is in it |
| Fri Jun 16, 2006 3:27 pm |
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footyfanatic51
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regardless this needs to be a message to the reast of the proffesional footbal world, no federation should put up with any nonsense.. relegate them. |
| Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:49 am |
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zdirish17
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this is really bad for serie A,and it should result in either relegation or suspension for the teams involved |
| Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:02 am |
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they will b fined a large sum of money and wont have enough to continue playing in seira A and will b dropped to the lower divisions 4 teams are involved all i rember off the top of my head is that Ac milan and Juv are the teams...imagine if they did get relegated wat the players would do and if the teams would ever come power houses anymore and they are also banned from playing in europe..........this is my opinion of wats going to happen |
| Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:03 am |
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doggiedog
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hehe first time the champion will get relegated |
| Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:27 pm |
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doggiedog
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interesting
| Quote: | 'ROME (AP) -- The Italian soccer federation is investigating at least five more teams in the match-fixing scandal that brought charges against 26 people and Serie A clubs Juventus, AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina.
Chief investigator Francesco Saverio Borrelli will question officials from unidentified teams in Italy's top three divisions and conclude his investigation within a week, the federation said Monday.
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The federation declined to reveal which teams, but Italian media reported that Serie A clubs Empoli, Lecce, Messina, Reggina and Siena, and Serie B's Arezzo were involved.
On Friday, 26 soccer officials, including referees, and Juventus, AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina were indicted on charges of match-fixing and violating the sports code's requirement for loyalty and honesty.
The four clubs risk demotion to a lower division and a points reductions for next season. They are to face a sports tribunal in Rome's Olympic Stadium starting Thursday.
Investigators claim that former officials of Juventus, the team at the center of the scandal, created a widespread system of corruption that ranged from referee assignments to getting players booked.
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