On May 4th, Gazzetta dello Sport revealed the contents of the telephone conversation between Juventus general manager Moggi (Juventus News, Voice of Juventus) and the Serie A referee appointed by pareto in recent years, thus opening the curtain of the "Telephone Gate" scandal.
On May 8th-10, Italian Football Association President carraro and Vice President Ma Zhini announced their resignations. Four major procuratorates, Naples, Rome (Rome news, everyone talks about it) and Turin, began to intervene in the investigation.
On May 1 1, the board of directors of Juventus, including giraudo and Moggi, resigned collectively.
13 May * * newspaper reported that in the 2004-2005 season, Serie A 18 matches were investigated, among which Juventus 12 matches were suspected of using referees to obtain favorable results; The Italian referee Desentis, who was involved in the scandal, was disqualified from refereeing the World Cup in Germany.
On May 20th, the president of Inter Milan (Inter Milan News, Inter Milan speaking) was exposed to be suspected of manipulating the referee.
On May 23rd, after Pappa, director of the investigation office of the Italian Football Association, resigned, Rossi, the Commissioner of the Football Association, nominated borell, a former Milan prosecutor, as the new director of the investigation office of the Italian Football Association.
On June 8th, borell, director of the investigation office of the Italian Football Association, announced that he would submit the investigation conclusion to the prosecutor within seven days after the investigation of the Italian football scandal entered the third day.
On June 14, Juventus officially announced the appointment of Geely as the new president of the club.
On June 22nd, the Italian Football Association announced the preliminary investigation results of the scandal, and AC Milan, Juventus, Florence and Lazio were prosecuted.
July 4th, Calciopoli scandal punishment proposal: All four clubs involved in Calciopoli scandal will face demotion punishment, among which Juve will be demoted to the third level and the other three will be demoted to the second level. ..
On July 15, the results of the first trial were announced:
Juventus: The results of the 2004-05 season were judged to be the last in the league, and the season champion was deprived; 05-06 season champion title was cancelled at the same time; In the 06-07 season, I was downgraded to Grade B, and deducted 30 points; Former club executives Moggi and giraudo were banned from football activities for five years.
Florence: relegated to Grade B in the 2006-07 season, deducted 12 points; Delavallee, the president of the club, was banned from football activities for three years and six months, while Thieg, the honorary president of the club, was banned for four years.
Lazio: In the 2006-07 season, it was relegated to the second division, with 7 points deducted; Lotito, the president of the club, was banned from football for three years.
AC Milan: Retain Serie A qualification, but deduct 15 points in the new season; Deduct 44 points from the points in the 05-06 season and lose the qualification to participate in the Champions League in the new season; Adriano Galliani, vice-president of the club, was suspended 1 year, and Leonardo mini, an official, was suspended for three years and six months.
Officials of the referee organization: referee Bergamo was fined and postponed, and Pareto was suspended for 2 years and 6 months; Chairman Ranise was banned from working for 2 years and 6 months, and Deputy Commissioner Mazier was banned from working 1 year. Observers were warned to beware of Gagiola. Referee: Desentis Peak is suspended for 4 years and 6 months, East Talini is suspended for 3 years and 6 months, and Papa Resta is suspended for 3 months; Rodomondi, Potigny, Messina, Rocchi and Tagliavento will not be punished; The linesman Pulis and Babbini forbid referees 1 year. Italian Football Association officials: Former Football Association President carraro was suspended for four years and six months, and Vice President Mazny was suspended for five years.
On July 25th, the second trial result:
Juventus: relegated to B, deducted 17 points; Cancel the league championship in the last two seasons; Three home games were suspended.
Florence: resumed the first-class qualification but was deducted 19 points; 05-06 season points were deducted 30 points; Three home games were suspended; Delavallee, a club official, was suspended for three years; Mencucci was suspended for two years and six months.
Lazio: resume the qualification of Grade A but deduct 1 1 point; 05-06 season points were deducted 30 points; 2 home games were banned; Club official Lotito was suspended for two years and six months.
AC Milan: Retain Grade A qualification but deduct 8 points; 05-06 season points were deducted 30 points; 1 banned at home. Club official Adriano Galliani was suspended for nine months; Miani (AC Milan, resigned) was suspended for two years and six months;
Referee officials: Pareto was suspended for three years and Ranis was suspended for two years and six months because Gagiola was warned. Referee: Desentis Peak was suspended for four years, Babbini, mazzei and Pulis were suspended for six months, and Papa Resta was suspended for three months, without punishing Dowlini. Italian Football Association official: former Football Association President carraro fined 80,000 euros; Mazny, former vice president of the Football Association, was banned for five years.
10 10/5, the federal arbitration court cancelled the suspension of the referee Gianluca PapaResta.
1October 28th, 10. After the appeal, Juventus and Lazio were fined 8 points less, which reduced Juventus' penalty in the second division from 17 to 9 points. Lazio's Serie A penalty was reduced from 1 1 to 3 points; Florence's penalty was also reduced from 19 to 15, and only AC Milan was fined 8 points.
On February 4th, 65438, Bergamo, former referee coordinator of the Italian Football Association, revealed in an interview that Inter Milan was actually the club with which he had the most contact.
65438+February 65438+February, Reggina's appeal was successful, and the previous penalty of 15 was reduced to 1 1.
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An accident led to the biggest scandal in football.
2006 is not an ordinary World Cup year, and it is destined to occupy an important chapter in the history of football. Because in May this year, a match-fixing scandal that shocked the world broke out in Italy. The suspected clubs are well-known teams, such as Juventus, AC Milan, Florence and Lazio.
Because the scandal was revealed by the telephone recording from the Italian local procuratorate, it was called "Telephone Gate", but in Italy, it was called "Telephone Gate Scandal", which means "Football Corruption" in Italian.
"Football corruption" is not a new term in European football, including the demotion of AC Milan and Lazio in the early 1980s, the Marseille case in the early 1990s, and the referee scandal in Heuse in the Bundesliga last season. Due to special reasons such as country, humanities and history, there are more rumors of match-fixing in Italian football than in the other three major leagues. Corruption and fraud abound in the government, not to mention the football circle, which has less legal constraints and involves more interests.
The exposure of the Calciopoli scandal confirmed the long-standing doubts about Serie A. ..
It turns out that the "holy alliance" between Juventus and Milan really exists!
It turns out that Sensi, the boss of Rome, always made comments against the Northern Group in the past. This is not groundless!
It turns out that Juve's "referee care" is not a crime!
It turns out that big teams can really appoint referees before the game!
It turns out that giants can really say hello to small teams in advance to send points. ...
All this and so on, in short, it opened the bright coat of Serie A, revealing a scar.
The Italian judiciary has long been aware of the necessity of rectifying football. Whether it's the case of Juventus players taking drugs and high-level false accounts, or the rumors that players are often involved in gambling, as well as the illegal operation of GEA brokerage company, the son of former general manager Moggi of Juventus, all attract local procuratorial organs to investigate football in depth. It's just that they didn't expect that in this series of follow-up investigations, a more shocking and terrible "phone door" scandal was unexpectedly dug up. Compared with the previous events, the event that Moggi Group manipulated the referee for many years is the "big fish".
The core of the "Telephone Gate" storm should be Naples. The local procuratorate should have investigated the underground gambling case in the 2003/2004 season, and the investigation involved anti-mafia materials. Among these materials, the Venetian Club President Darchin accused Moggi that "there is a referee group manipulated by Moggi", so their prosecutors locked Moggi, former referee publisher Pairetto and former Football Association Vice President Mazini.
At the same time, other local procuratorates are investigating football from different aspects. The recordings first disclosed in the "Telephone Gate" scandal were provided by the Prosecutor's Office in Turin, with the purpose of finding out the unresolved drug ban case in Juventus and the financial problems of giraudo, Moggi and others. Unfortunately, their eavesdropping time is too short (two months before and after the 2004/2005 season), and the content does not constitute a legal prosecution other than sports justice. At this time, thanks to the Naples Procuratorate, they completed the eavesdropping work in 1 year and provided the most valuable evidence in this "telephone door".
Trial process: the storm of the century turned into a political struggle
"Telephone Gate" has a positive name called "Clean Foot Movement", which is an example of "Clean Hand Movement" in politics in the early 1990s. At that time, the "Clean Hands Movement" uncovered the shady political corruption in post-war Italy and triggered a strong political earthquake. From the outside world, "Telephone Gate" is a scandal, but in the hearts of Italians, they hope that the outbreak of this scandal will help eradicate the cancer that Italian football has been growing for many years and make Italian football clean and healthy again. The name "clean foot exercise" is a reflection of this emotion.
It thundered on the ground.
At the beginning of May, another boring season monopolized by Juventus is coming to an end, and they will win the Serie A championship for the 29th time. However, at this time, various media reported that the evidence of Moggi's appointment as a referee was in the hands of the judiciary. A stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the incident expanded rapidly in a few days. The evidence obtained by local procuratorates was exposed in the form of telephone recording, and Milan, Lazio and Florence fell one after another, with Juventus as the absolute protagonist.
Moggi has caused numerous disputes and troubles to Juve, but he can solve them every time. Everyone thought it would be the same result this time. However, in May of 10, that is, three days after Juve defeated Palermo 2-/kloc-0 at home, the board of directors of Juve headed by Moggi, giraudo and Betega resigned collectively! All of a sudden, the eyes of the whole world were attracted by Serie A, and people had a premonition of the seriousness of the situation.
There is a huge difference between the first trial and the second trial.
From the first and second trials to the arbitration of the Olympic Committee, the difference in the judgment results of "Telephone Gate" is surprising. The most crucial thing is the second trial that ended on July 25. Before the results were announced, Sandurri, the presiding judge, announced in advance that "there is no problem in the league". In this context, all four teams were greatly reduced: Juve's penalty was changed from 30 to 17, Florence and Lazio returned to the first division, and Milan could play in the Champions League after deducting points.
What is even more strange is that in the first trial, all parties demanded that the guilty team be severely punished, but in the second trial, it was clearly stated that there was no match-fixing and all the referees were acquitted. Obviously, after the passion faded, the Italians witnessed the departure of several stars and began to worry that the competition would plunge Serie A into the abyss of perdition. At this time, both the official tone and public opinion are developing in the direction of minimizing the consequences.
The most obvious is the punishment of Juventus, the protagonist of the scandal. Judge palazzi suggested that he be downgraded to "below Grade B" in the punishment proposal before the first trial, and deducted 30 points. According to this punishment, Juve will be destroyed, and as a result, all parties dare not do so after consultation, because Juve is the blood of Serie A after all.
Under the pressure of FIFA, the four teams "compromised"
After the commutation, the four teams were still dissatisfied, threatening to appeal to the civil court in Lazio and even to the sports arbitration court in Lausanne. This practice is making FIFA's biggest taboo-they don't like the involvement of institutions other than football, and they take the disqualification of all international competitions in Italy as a warning. The Italian Football Association had to give in to four teams, so on August 29th, Juve, who had been tough before, suddenly gave up the appeal.
With the start of the league on September 9, the teams gradually accepted the reality, and Juve also started their first Serie B season in the history of 109. However, the "telephone door" always needs to be solved. 101On October 27th, the final verdict was pronounced, and Youwen really got his sentence reduced, as did Florence and Lazio. Only AC Milan, which participated in the Champions League under the special approval of UEFA, kept the penalty of 8 points unchanged. Florence insisted on appealing because of the reduction of points, but gave up after several days of uproar.
Inter Milan is dirtier? Eternal mystery
What role Inter Milan plays in the "Telephone Gate" is also the most sensitive topic. At the beginning of May, after the incident between Juventus and Milan, Moratti immediately stood up and demanded "the league title taken away by Juventus", stating that Inter Milan is the cleanest team in Serie A. With the support of the newly appointed Football Association member Rossi, the sports court awarded the Serie A title to Inter Milan last season. Many people have suggested that Rossi used to play for Inter Milan and was also the director of Telecom Italia, the second boss of Inter Milan, Roncetti. Such an identity cannot but make people suspicious.
Sure enough, just as Inter Milan swept Serie A, Roncetti was suspected of being involved in the telecom Italia eavesdropping scandal (referee Desentis accused Inter Milan of manipulating telecom Italia eavesdropping and illegally following him in 2002), and Moratti was also summoned. After investigation, it was found that Telecom Italia had monitored several Serie A referees by telephone, and the number reached hundreds. Later, it was revealed that Inter Milan also eavesdropped on the former star Vieri (Vieri News, Vieri's endorsement), which made Moratti very embarrassed.
It is hard for the outside world to believe the innocence of Inter Milan. In addition, there is evidence in the "Telephone Gate" that Inter Milan President Faccetti has also consulted the referee. However, at this time, a storm has subsided and come to an end. Half a year's tossing has seriously damaged Italian football. It seems that no one wants to see Inter Milan, the only remaining giants in Serie A, hit hard again. In addition, since Fasetti has passed away, it is difficult to start an investigation.
In this context, whether before February 3, 65438, the referee appointed Bergamo to testify that "Inter Milan is actually dirtier than Juventus", or before February 25, 65438, Tavaroli, director of the Italian Telecom Security and Monitoring Department, admitted to the prosecutor at the detention center that Inter Milan's eavesdropping was to bring down Moggi and Juventus, but two small waves could not lift the waves, and there was no greater force to turn it into a second storm.
■ "hurting people"
Fans: "Telephone Gate" told them to leave the stadium.
"Telephone Gate" tide receded, but it was not a beautiful white beach, but a swamp. In the black mud, the prosperity and glory of Serie A in the past are buried, and the hope of Italians to revive the glory of Serie A is buried. But no one knows when this alliance will be restored.
In every league match, there are a lot of empty stands, and the growing dissatisfaction and venting of fans is the most true reflection of the tragic situation of the Great Depression in Serie A after the scandal. Winning the World Cup is only a short-lived dream after all. After waking up, Italians still have to face the cruel reality. The enthusiasm at the beginning of the trial has long gone, and what is precipitated in my heart is long-term worry and fear.
Compared with the past, fans' enthusiasm for Serie A has obviously cooled down. The decline in the appreciation of Serie A is not the feeling of one or two Italians. In the past, everyone was willing to buy tickets to watch football on weekends. People who couldn't afford tickets would watch TV at home, but now, they think reading newspapers is enough. This is all caused by the "telephone door", and its negative impact is beyond people's imagination beforehand.
Fans have their own limitations. They will not applaud the punishment of guilty people and the so-called purification of football. All they care about is the football match and the team they support. So in the face of the status quo, they are angry, they feel uncomfortable, and sometimes they vent their anger through worse behavior, so violence and racial discrimination on the court are more rampant.
Professor Zalovic, a former columnist of "All Sports", was saddened by this: "This phenomenon is very common, and no one is angry with the telephone door itself. In my opinion, this is a more dangerous signal. Fans can't correctly understand the harm of scandals to Italian football, and maybe similar tragedies will repeat themselves in a few years. " He called on the media to guide the fans correctly, but it was difficult.
Before the official punishment result of Calciopoli came out, Brescia President Coe Leoni had put forward the idea of merging Serie A and Serie B for one season and forming a big league. The 42 teams were divided into three regions according to their geographical location, and finally the top two in each region competed for the championship through play-offs. This seems a bit like NBA(NBA News, NBA Speak) to give Italian football the best breathing space. "This may not be the best solution, but it is the starting point to help us out of the predicament."
Coe Leoni's proposal, despite its "selfishness"-he is worried that once Juventus, Milan, Lazio and Florence are all relegated to the second division, the promotion hopes of other teams in the second division will be slim, but it is indeed a transitional strategy to think about it carefully. The most important thing is that this will not cause the loss of fans. On the contrary, the new competition system will become a big selling point. However, his suggestion was not adopted in the end.
AC Milan: Inter Milan can't be stopped from dominating.
Milan has always been a world of ice and fire, but it is different from the past 10 years. Now the ice room has been replaced by AC Milan. The "Calciopoli" disintegrated the "holy alliance" between Juventus and Milan, and Florence, which had just improved a little in recent years, was hit again. Lazio and Parma are more like broken houses, Palermo is a civilian anyway, and Rome is just an empty shell of a giant. It's good that other small fish and shrimp can pay players' salaries. No one can compete with Inter Milan.
Obviously, the eventful autumn of Serie A created by "Telephone Gate" has become a rare opportunity for Inter Milan, which was once oppressed by Juventus. Moratti, who saw the opportunity, ate several big-name stars in succession this summer. More notably, he learned to kill two birds with one stone-arming himself and suppressing his opponent at the same time.
Vieira (Vieira news, Vieira said) and Ibrahimovic were poached from Juventus at a low price, and Crespo was robbed from AC Milan. Ibrahimovic was originally the target of AC Milan. When AC Milan had to aim at Cristiano Ronaldo (Cristiano Ronaldo spoke), Moratti broke the contract on the horizontal bar, forcing Galliani to finally get an unknown Oliveira.
Since Berlusconi bought Milan 20 years ago, they have never been so passive as this summer. Moratti can't say "heartless", he can only say that the "telephone door" is too turbulent. Although they have received the lightest punishment, they have suffered enough. The most direct point is the sudden start of the Champions League qualifiers. For AC Milan, which has a large number of World Cup members, it is fatal to temporarily change the training plan.
Another effect of being caught off guard is reflected in the transfer market. Gourcuff, Favali and Bonera were all completed before the World Cup, and they are not supplements to the main lineup. Stam, Costa and Shevchenko left, but there were no stars of equal weight to fill the vacancy. Milan are afraid to make a hasty move because they are not sure whether they can pass the qualifying round (the opponent is Belgrade Red Star). After two qualifying rounds, only Oliveira was left in the ball market. As it turns out, he can't bear the expectations of Milan people.
However, in addition to the sudden heavy blow, the decline of Milan's own anti-strike ability is also an important reason. In recent years, Berlusconi's political career is getting worse and worse, his international reputation is not good, and he has gradually lost his enthusiasm for building AC Milan. Moreover, the original meaning of AC Milan's existence is to act as the image representative of Berlusconi and serve his politics. After he stepped down, this task shouldered by AC Milan ceased to exist. He naturally didn't want to spend money at the expense of blood, as he did 10 years ago, so the blood exchange program in Milan was put on hold year after year. The degradation of combat effectiveness, coupled with the unexpected arrival of the "telephone door", made it difficult for Milan to turn over for a while.
According to the performance of AC Milan leading Inter Milan by a big margin last season, Galliani shouted the slogan of smoothing the eight-point gap before Christmas. At the beginning of the season, Milan won two red stars. At the beginning of the league's three-game winning streak, everyone thought it could really create a miracle, but then it began to decline, losing two games in a row, losing three games in a row and losing four rounds. This happened one after another, so that they entered Christmas with a huge gap of 28 points from Inter Milan.
The worst era of Serie A has become the best era of Inter Milan. They are invincible in Serie A. In the first half, they won a great victory in the dialogue with the strong teams away from home, and in the second half, they will have a Ma Pingchuan. The reduction of the pressure on the domestic arena also enables them to cope with the Champions League more easily. Moratti hopes that Inter Milan can take advantage of this season's rare opportunity to win the championship on two fronts.
Juventus lost the powerful backer of the Agnelli family, and Milan no longer enjoyed Berlusconi's investment. Only Moratti continues to spend a lot of money in Inter Milan, and the media can't help but look forward to the second arrival of the "great international era". However, the prosperity of a league cannot be "home to the world" after all, and Moratti should not be short-sighted, because once Serie A falls out of the top four in Europe, the prosperity of Inter Milan will not last long.
Juventus: Losing the European War also loses revenue.
Is this league really clean? This is a question that no one can answer.
Juventus is considered to be the chief culprit in undermining the justice and integrity of Italian football. Many people want to get rid of it quickly, but without Juventus' Serie A, they will become deformed children without arms and legs, which makes people feel sad. Serie B is much more lively than before because of Juventus' joining, and the average audience has increased by 20.3%, but its influence is negligible after all.
Some people say that "Telephone Gate" is a long-planned action against Juventus. After the death of umberto Agnelli in 2003, Juventus lost its patron, and the signs of anti-Juventus in Italian football became increasingly obvious. It is not surprising that Moggi and others have brought benefits to Juve over the years, but they have also made enemies on all sides. On the other hand, if they have done nothing wrong, why are they afraid of ghosts knocking at the door? Everything is a foregone conclusion. What Juve need to do is to accept the reality, forget the past and look forward. No matter how brilliant they were, no matter how important they are to Italian football, they are equal to zero on the journey back to the first division.
On the field, Juve's achievements have nothing to say. From the beginning of autumn-17 points, before the winter break, one game is only less than the leader 1 point, 17 games 12 wins and 5 draws. Although the coach changed from Capello to Deschamps, Juventus remained stable. From 165438+2005 1 October 6, Juve's unbeaten time has exceeded1year. Juve didn't adapt to Serie B as long as they feared before the season, of course, because Del Piero (Piero news, about Del Piero), Trezeguet (Trezeguet news, about Trezeguet), Buffon, Camoranesi (Camoranesi news, about Camoranesi) and Nedved (Nedved news, about Nedved) didn't leave. It can be said that the spirit of Juve is still there.
The biggest difficulty is money. At the beginning of the season, Juventus was eliminated by Napoli in the Italian Cup because its mentality has not been adjusted well, which cut off the opportunity to participate in the European war in the coming year. However, the absence of European competitions for two years has fundamentally cut off the club's financial resources: firstly, the loss of bonuses, tickets and TV broadcast income, secondly, the contract between Nike and Sky TV was 30% off, and the heaviest blow came from the withdrawal of chest advertising sponsor Tamoil (the two sides still have a five-year contract), which will cause Juventus a loss of 230 million euros. It is estimated that Juve's demotion will bring 35% financial loss.
Juventus don't have to worry about upgrading, but a few stars who haven't left in the summer can't just aim at upgrading. Their call for the club to expand its strength immediately reflects their dissatisfaction with the inaction of the management and their doubts about the future, all of which are caused by money. Chairman Geely quickly appeased: "Managing Director Blanco has made a transition plan for the 2006/2007 season, and we are also stepping up the selection of future breast advertising sponsors. An important sponsor has left, and others will come, without any problems. "
Juventus didn't lose fans, so it didn't lose the foundation of its revival. Juve may not be able to meet everyone's expectations in a short time. At the end of the season, it is likely that the team will be promoted to the first division, but it will not be able to keep the stars. Once Juve, like Rome, is forced to change to a younger road, it is unknown when it will make a comeback. Juventus need the support of Agnelli family and Fiat Group.