Italian Football - The Disgrace and the Cheats and how they almost destroyed footbal.

**Wade Barrett 1979** · 01-21-2012, 01:41 PM

I have decided to create a number of threads about the darker side of football!

I fancy myself a bit of a journalistic architect, so I've decided that I'm going to be writing a few things about the beautiful game, we call football.

I've decided to kick off with the disgraceful behaviour that was conducted across Italian football, during the last decade.
How the Italian's disregard for good sportsman like conduct (which you can see pretty much during most of their games, or diving contests if you will) nearly permanently destroyed the good name of football across the globe.

I'm also going to look at the fact that now, no matter how many World Cups they've won or however many they may win in the future and no matter how well their club sides do and no matter how many domestic trophies they win, Italian football shall forever be sullied by the disgrace of the cheating that is endemic in the Italian game.

So I'll be posting regular reports and stories etc on how these disgraceful events unfolded and how they affected the good name of football forever!

I'll also be looking at various cases of the 'deniers' who believe Italian football is anything more than it is: A disgrace, prolifegated by cheats, money takers and hooligans who care not for the game of football.

**Steve Austin** · 01-21-2012, 01:43 PM

I like it chief.

The bolded post > Serie A

**Y2Jryder** · 01-21-2012, 01:43 PM

thread is already a win

**Automatic** · 01-21-2012, 01:43 PM

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**Wade Barrett 1979** · 01-21-2012, 01:49 PM

2006 Italian football scandal

The 2006 Italian football scandal (Italian:Calciopoli or Moggiopoli , sometimes referred to asCalciocaos) involved Italy's top professional football leagues, Serie A and Serie B. The scandal was uncovered in May 2006 by Italian police, implicating league champions Juventus, and other major teams including Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Reggina when a number of telephone interceptions showed a thick network of relations between team managers and referee organisations. Juventus were the champions of Serie A at the time. The teams have been accused of rigging games by selecting favourable referees.

**VanHooliganX** · 01-21-2012, 01:52 PM

Sport is a competition.

It gives us unbelievable moments.

Buying your wins is a disgrace. The ultimate insult to your sport.

Fenerbache S.K (SP?) and the Italian teams that cheated are no longer sports teams. They're dirt. Anything won legitimately by them from previous legends now are void of any credibility. They sold out.

They're a disgrace to the sport.

**Wade Barrett 1979** · 01-21-2012, 01:54 PM

The scandal first came to light as a consequence of investigations of Naples prosecutors on the Italian football agency GEA World. Transcripts of recorded telephone conversations published in Italian newspapers suggested that during the 2004-2005 season, Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi had conversations with several officials of Italian football to influence referee appointment. The nameCalciopoli is a pun on Tangentopi, [rough English translation:Bribesville], a corruption-based attitude starting in the early 1980s and ending with the Mani Pulite investigation in the early '90s. Another very common name for Calciopoli is Moggiopoli after the name of Luciano Moggi. Also Calciogate, a pun on Watergate, is used. "Calcio" means football in Italian.

**Wade Barrett 1979** · 01-21-2012, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by VanHooliganX

Sport is a competition.

It gives us unbelievable moments.

Buying your wins is a disgrace. The ultimate insult to your sport.

Fenerbache S.K (SP?) and the Italian teams that cheated are no longer sports teams. They're dirt. Anything won legitimately by them from previous legends now are void of any credibility. They sold out.

They're a disgrace to the sport.

Spot on Van. Couldn't have put it better myself!

**Wade Barrett 1979** · 01-21-2012, 02:01 PM

Since the trial, some further controversy has emerged. This is due to perceived bias in favour of Inter who were the main beneficiary from the 2006 Serie A scandal; they were awarded as champions as the outcome although they only finished 3rd and they have also brought in top players; Patrik Vieira (now retired) and Zlatan Inrahimovic) now at Milan) from Juventus since the club's relegation.Telecom Italia interception scandal and Inter's role

In September 2006 Italian football was shaken again by a new investigation. The head of the security department of Telecom Italia (Italy's biggest fixed network operator company) was arrested for having organised a trade of interceptions to public personalities' private calls. Inter was involved in the process from the beginning when Carlo Buora, Chief Operating Officer of Telecom Italia and vice-president of Inter, being the boss of Tavaroli, was accused of being involved. During questioning, Tavaroli admitted that the president of Inter (Massimo Moratti) was one of the customers of this trade, having requested interceptions of many football personalities among referees, footballers and officers.
Former Inter striker Christian Vieri has suggested the Calciopoli scandal was sparked by Nerazzurri president Massimo Moratti. Vieri is currently suing Inter and telecommunications company Telecom Italia for illegal wire tapping.
Firenzeviola.it has reported that the wire tapping plan between Moratti and Telecom Italia was to eliminate teams in Serie A so that Inter could pave the way for success. It claims Inter players were made to sign a document to cover up any existence of the plan to take down other clubs. The allegation is that Vieri's phone was tapped up to ensure he never spoke of Inter's Calciopoli plans.
In press interviews, Vieri went so far as wondering why not all the relevant calls that he received from team managers went out during the investigation claiming that other teams, including Inter, should have been punished too.
The Italian Football Federation (now under the lead of Giancarlo Abete, a new Pontius Pilatus for the Juventus' supporters) started an enquiry into these allegations. It is unlikely that Inter will be sanctioned since Inter's alleged conduct dates back to 2002 and in Italy, under the Sporting Justice Code of FIGC the statute of limitations runs out after two seasons.

**Steve Austin** · 01-21-2012, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by VanHooliganX

Sport is a competition.

It gives us unbelievable moments.

Buying your wins is a disgrace. The ultimate insult to your sport.

Fenerbache S.K (SP?) and the Italian teams that cheated are no longer sports teams. They're dirt. Anything won legitimately by them from previous legends now are void of any credibility. They sold out.

They're a disgrace to the sport.

This, only this, nothing else but this!