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Italo’s manipulation system in soccer was exposed 14 years ago. Luciano Moggi is at the center of the mafia construction. Juve’s CEO is banned for life, the club is forcibly delegated.
On May 2, 2006, the foundations of Italian football were shaken. On this day, the “Gazzetta dello Sport” published part of the minutes of telephone conversations of Luciano Moggi, General Director of Juventus in Turin. For a long time it was suspected that he controlled and manipulated Italian football with a mafia system. After all, Moggi, 68, in Italy, had long been called “Lucky Luciano.” Like Salvatore Charles “Lucky” Luciano, one of the first mob bosses in New York in the 1920s.
In the “Gazzetta dello Sport”, the Tifosi were able to read how Moggi’s manipulations had a system. It was not about sports betting, especially in the German media, the Italian football scandal is often incorrectly referred to as the betting scandal, or collusion on results. No, Moggi exerted his influence by manipulating the refereeing assignment for the Serie A games. He once indicated to the chief justice that the referee of the Sampdoria Genoa game against Juventus should “keep 50 eyes open to see things that cannot be done. see at all. ” Juventus then won in Genoa thanks to a whistle.
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Rolex referee watches and ferraris
But Moggi’s manipulations continued and often assisted Juventus through detours. The referees were bribed with Rolex watches, or even Ferraris, to intentionally distribute the cards to the teams that met the Turin team in the next round so that the key players were expelled from Juventus. In the 2004/05 season, 29 of 38 Juventus games were falsified in this way.
To maintain this system, Moggi acquired an impressive cellular telephone infrastructure. Investigators discovered that he had six mobile phones working at the same time. Over a nine-month period, around 100,000 (one hundred thousand!) Phone calls were counted, more than 400 per day. During these nine months, Moggi used 300 SIM cards, many of them from Swiss providers. But he could not get rid of his pursuers.
And so Moggi and Juventus of Turin blew the system around their ears in the summer 14 years ago. The 2006 championship title was still won on the pitch. But “the celebration was a funeral,” as the Juventus newspaper “La Stampa”, which is near Turin, said. Moggi was no longer in the last game on May 14. He had resigned as CEO three days before and nine days after the listening records were released.
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Moggi remains a welcome guest on talk shows
Moggi was initially banned for five years, even for life. In criminal law, however, he got away with it. When the mills of the Italian judiciary came to an end, the deeds of Moggi had expired. Today Moggi is no longer in the middle, but is still there. He is a welcome guest in television conversations. There the nation explains to Calcium.
Moggi was the center of the corrupt system, but not the only actor and perpetrator. A total of five prosecutors were involved in the matter. They investigated more than 50 people and various clubs. Juventus’ criminal behavior caused the reaction of the competition, and she also chose the path of mockery and bribery. In the summer of 2006, Fiorentina, Lazio, Rome and Milan, as well as several smaller clubs, were also punished. The worst blow was Juventus Turin. The record champion was forcibly delegated and had to start in Serie B with a 9-point deficit.
“I had to control a world of demons”
Italians experienced a summer of football 14 years ago that was, grotesquely, a mixture of fairy tales and drama. As the processes began, first the media, then the (legal) sports, the Squadra Azzurra played in Germany in an impressive run to the fourth World Cup title. The first sentences were handed down on July 14, five days after his victory in the Berlin final. In this final, a total of nine Juventus players were on the field for Italy and France. From Gigi Buffon to Fabio Cannavaro to Alessandro Del Piero; from Liliam Thuram to Patrick Vieira to David Trezeguet.
Many Juventus fans find confirmation that their team was the best anyway. And Moggi also finds everything half bad. He recently said on television: “I had to control a world of demons. But calling on the phone really isn’t a crime. ” Some TV manufacturers view this similarly. In studios, Moggi is still approached almost as impressive as “Direttore”.
