Italian football scandal - Wikipedia. The 2. 00. 6 Italian football scandal, or Calciopoli in the Italian- speaking world. The scandal was uncovered in May 2. Italian police, implicating league champions Juventus and other major teams including Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina when a number of illegaltelephone interceptions showed a thick network of relations between team managers and referee organizations, being accused of rigging games by selecting favourable referees.

Origins. Transcripts of recorded telephone conversations published in Italian newspapers suggested that, during the 2. Juventus general managers Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo had conversations with several officials of Italian football to influence referee appointments.

The name Calciopoli (which could be translated as . Palazzi called for Juventus . He also asked for point deductions to be imposed for the following season for the clubs (three for Milan and 1. Fiorentina and Lazio).

The prosecutor also called for Juventus to be stripped of its 2. According to the court, the conduct of team managers was considered in all cases. While not real match- fixing, it was a violation of sporting principles.

In the case of Juventus, their conduct seemed to be designed to influence match results, while in the case of other teams, the evidence against them was not considered as strong. Juventus' representatives considered this assumption totally arbitrary and argued that the case against them was never proven. Consequences of the punishments. They would have had to finish in the top two of Serie B to be assured of promotion and also had to avoid finishing in the bottom four to avoid being relegated to Serie C1. Juventus, for example, were initially docked 3. This made it very likely that they would not return to Serie A until 2.

The point penalty, however, was reduced to nine points, giving Juventus a fighting chance at promotion. They went on to win Serie B in the 2.

Serie A. Fiorentina, who were docked 1. Serie A and faced an outside chance of relegation the following season. However, they finished the 2. UEFA Cup. The relegation of Juventus also prompted a mass exodus of important players such as Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram and Zlatan Ibrahimovi.

Some thirty other Serie A players who participated at the 2. FIFA World Cup opted to move to other European leagues in the wake of the scandal. Effect on Serie A. After the appeals, only Messina remained in Serie A.

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Teams promoted from Serie B (Atalanta, Catania and Torino) were unaffected and promoted to Serie A as normal. Based on their final league positions, Juventus and Milan would have earned a direct entry into the UEFA Champions League, Inter and Fiorentina would have entered the third qualifying round of the Champions League, while Roma, Lazio and Chievo would have been eligible for the UEFA Cup. On 6 June 2. 00. 6, the FIGC officially withdrew from the 2. Intertoto Cup, costing Palermo a place in the third round of the competition, citing the fact that the 2. Serie A standings could not be confirmed by the 5 June deadline.

UEFA gave FIGC a 2. July 2. 00. 6 deadline to confirm the standings or face sanctions in the two larger European competitions (then extended to 2. July). After the appeals, Inter, Roma, Chievo and Milan occupied Italy's four Champions League places for 2. Inter and Roma received a direct entry into the Champions League, while Chievo and Milan started at the third qualifying round. Milan's entry was confirmed by UEFA shortly after the appeals process.

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Milan went on to win the competition. Palermo, Livorno and Parma took the UEFA Cup first round slots originally given to Roma, Lazio and Chievo. The Calciopoli investigation should have been more thorough, so much so that we, as the Federal Court, had limited the penalty to Juventus not withdrawing the championship title due to insufficient evidence. In fact, that aspect had been neglected. Then, the special commissioner of the Federation of that period had appointed a group of his friends, one of whom was also on the board of directors of Inter, and that title was revoked from Juventus and given to Inter.

That was a grave error in my view. Purceddu had more than once in the past highlighted several points to be clarified on that investigation. FIFA announced that it had the option to suspend the FIGC, thus barring all Italian clubs from international play, if Juventus went to court. Juventus officials cited the . Milan were unsuccessful and were still faced with an eight- point deduction. Other allegations. Adriano Galliani, as the vice president and CEO of Milan, also served as the president of Serie A.

In addition to allegations of corruption and sporting fraud by owners, managers, players, referees and league officials, the host of Italy's most popular football show, Aldo Biscardi, resigned amid allegations that he collaborated with Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi to boost the club's image on television. Prosecutors in Turin examined the Juventus chairman Antonio Giraudo over transfers, suspected falsified accounts and tax evasion. Prosecutors in Parma investigated national team goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, Enzo Maresca, Antonio Chimenti and Mark Iuliano for suspected gambling on Serie A matches. Juventus' entire board of directors resigned on 1. May, while Moggi resigned shortly after Juventus won the 2. Serie A championship on 1. May. On the Borsa Italiana, Italy's stock market, Juventus shares had lost about half their 9 May value by the 1.

May. Since the conversations were through foreign SIM cards, the Italian police could not tap them, so they could only try to match together phone numbers, numbers called and places. The SIM cards had been purchased in a store in Chiasso (Switzerland). Watch Hanger Putlocker.

Some SIM cards were Swiss and registered to the store owner's family, while the others came from an anonymous person in Liechtenstein. The prosecutors also discovered the use of a Slovenian SIM card. In this investigation they involved Moggi, Pairetto, Bergamo, Fabiani (Messina sporting director), the referees De Santis, Racalbuto, Paparesta, Pieri, Cassar. According to this investigation, Paparesta also used the Swiss SIM card for personal use and this helped the prosecutors to discover this secret communication channel. Apparently, Moggi had five foreign SIM cards, two of which had been used to communicate with Bergamo and Pairetto, whereas the others had supposed to have been used to communicate with the referees and Fabiani. Although containing nothing truly compromising, in the recording Moggi and Marcello Lippi (former coach of Juventus and coach of the Italian national team at the time) clearly insulted Inter's president (Massimo Moratti) and trainer (Roberto Mancini), as Lippi stated that Mancini deserves a lesson while Moggi answered that Mancini would have such a lesson.

This allowed readers to perceive tones and forms of the conversations as well. Bergamo stated that, on suspicion of being tapped, he used that SIM card only to communicate with Pairetto and that, after the exhaustion of the credit, he did not use the SIM card anymore. In June 2. 00. 8, Juventus were fined a further . Messina were fined .

Such wiretappings were involving Milan vice- president Adriano Galliani, Inter owner Massimo Moratti, then- Inter chairman Giacinto Facchetti and former referee designators Paolo Bergamo and Pierluigi Pairetto, as well as many others Italian clubs not previously mentioned in the scandal. On 1. 5 June 2. 01. FIGC announced that former Juventus directors Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo would be banned for life from any football- related roles in Italy. However, the sentence stated that no Article 6 (about match- fixing or attempted match- fixing) violations were found within the intercepted calls and the season was fair and legitimate. Watch Awake 4Shared.

Furthermore, no requests for specific referees, no demands for favours and no conversations between Juventus directors and referees themselves were found.

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