The entire Juventus Board of Directors has resigned amid the Luciano Moggi
telephone transcript scandal, causing an earthquake within the club.
“The Juventus Board of Directors has handed its resignation to the
shareholders and called a meeting for June 29, 2006,” read the official
statement this evening.
There were rumours that Moggi would offer to quit following the days of
newspaper allegations and police investigations into his relationship with
refereeing designator Pierluigi Pairetto, as transcripts of alleged
telephone conversations were made public.
Yet this has been a cataclysmic shift in the club structure and one that
effectively ends an era at the Delle Alpi.
The so-called Triade of director general Moggi, President Roberto Bettega
and administrator Antonio Giraudo had been the architects of a Juventus
success story over the past decade.
There were doubts over two members of this trio, but it had been thought
that Giraudo would stay on, as he owns 3.6 per cent of the club’s shares.
The Bianconeri will completely restructure the side for next season and this
could also include Coach Fabio Capello, who has been strongly linked with
Inter.
The Roma-oriented daily newspaper ‘Il Romanista’ published an exclusive
article this morning in which it named the people allegedly linked to
Juventus director Luciano Moggi’s network of corruption.
The names include people employed in various sectors of the football world,
from the football federation and league, to the referees' association, to
journalists, agents, club directors, and also State-run security forces.
The Romanista indicates that the Della Valle brothers, who are,
respectively, chairman and vice-chairman of Fiorentina, appear initially to
have been victims of the alleged Moggi-conspiracy, because they didn’t want
to be part of it. However, in order to avoid relegation at the end of last
season, they are alleged to have agreed to meet his demands and therefore
crossed the line from being victims to becoming accomplices.
It is alleged that with collusion from referees, certain results were
engineered to ensure Fiorentina's survival in the top flight.
Here is the list of names under each category revealed by the Romanista, a
list that Turin-based daily La Stampa also decided to publish this morning.
THE FEDERATION/LEAGUE: Franco Carraio (Former Federation Chief), Innocenzo
Mazzini, Tullio Lanese (Current Head of Referee Association), Paolo Bergamo
(Former Referee Designator), Pierluigi Pairetto (Former Referee Designator),
Francesco Ghirelli, Raffaele Pagnozzi, Manfredi Martino, Maria Grazia Fazi.
REFEREES AND LINESMEN: Massimo De Santis (Italy's representative at the
World Cup), Gianluca Paparesta, Paolo Bertini, Paolo Dondarini, Domenico
Messina, Tiziano Pieri, Gianluca Rocchi, Salvatore Racalbuto, Pasquale
Rodomonti, Paolo Tagliavento, Matteo Trefoloni, Pietro Ingargiola, Gennaro
Mazzei, Duccio Baglioni, Silvio Gemignani, Alessandro Griselli.
CLUB DIRECTORS: Antonio Giraudo, Luigi Chiappero, Pietro Franza (Messina
Chairman), Claudio Lotto (Lazio Chairman), Diego Della Valle (Fiorentina
Chairman), Andrea Della Valle (Fiorentina Vice-chairman), Sandro Mencucci.
THE JOURNALISTS: Aldo Biscardi, Fabio Baldas, Franco Melli, Tony Damascelli,
Ignazio Scardina, Ciro Venerato, Mauro Sandreani, Guido D'Ubaldo.
THE AGENTS: Alessandro Moggi, Franco Zavaglia, figlio di Zavaglia, Riccardo
Calleri, Giuseppe De Mita, Massimo Brambati, Davide Lippi, Oreste Luciani
and Pasquale Gallo.
THE STATE RUN SECURITY: Francesco Attardi, Vincenzo Corrias, Giuseppe Lasco,
Donato Paradiso, Fabio Basili, Pierluigi Vitelli, Giuseppe D'Aniello
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Today it is revealed by the Torino and Parma magistrates probing
match-fixing suspicions raised by unusual betting patterns for a number of
matches last season that four Juventus players allegedly illegally bet on
the outcome of last season's Coppa Italia tie between Atalanta and Juventus,
which Atalanta won 5-3 on aggregate (the first leg finished 2-0 to Atalanta,
the second was a 3-3 draw in Turin).
The players alleged to have placed bets have been named as Gianluigi Buffon,
Enzo Maresca (now at Sevilla), Antonio Chimenti (now with Cagliari) and
Iuliano (now at Sampdoria)
The betting scandal has come to light through phone calls intercepted by the
Guardia di Finanza, a special police force that deals exclusively with
financial crime.
The intercepted calls are alleged to expose the existence of a syndicate
that used fake names to transfer money to phoney accounts that would be used
to place bets which were sometimes as high as 100,000 Euros per game.
It was the size of the bets that first alerted the suspicions of the
investigators.
Potentially the alleged wrong-doers, if proven guilty, could face fines,
suspensions and possibly even jail terms.
For the most high-profile of the four, Buffon, his involvement in the
forthcoming World Cup for Italy is now thought to be in jeopardy.
