2006 Italy Phonegate
Italian Scandal 2006
The 2006 Italian soccer scandal, often referred to as Phonegate. It refers to the huge soccer scandal that broke out in May 2006, just before the start of the World Cup, in the first division of Italian soccer in the last 26 years of the current world. Serie A champions Juventus were suspected of arranging referees in their favor and manipulating the outcome of matches. Later, four teams, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio and Regina, were also accused of fraud. The scandal has affected Serie A to the present day, with the exodus of many stars and the economic downturn causing a decline in the standard of the game.
sequence of events
In May 2006, Italian newspapers publicized a phone call between Juventus' former general manager, Moggi, and a senior official of the Italian Football Association (FA), in which Moggi was suspected of manipulating the selection of referees for a number of matches in the '04/'05 season in an attempt to influence the outcome of the matches, and was wiretapped by the local prosecutors, which led to the sensational Serie A scandal. Three other Serie A clubs, including AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio, were later implicated in the scandal. One club, Regina, has since confirmed the fraud.
After that, the president and vice president of the Italian FA resigned successively, and then the whole Juventus board resigned collectively, and the manager Capello announced that he would leave the team later on.
The Italian Court of Sport in Rome opened a trial on the scandal during the 2006 World Cup, and the verdict was supposed to be handed down before the World Cup final, but the date of the verdict was changed due to the Italian national team's
Winning the World Cup has been delayed again and again.
Outcome of the judgment
Juventus, Italian football team
A lighter sentence was handed down on appeal because the court found that the credibility of the telephone recordings was questioned and that the allegedly rigged games were all in the '04/'05 season:
Upholding the verdict of relegation to Division B for the 06/07 season, deprivation of the 04/05 and 05/06 league championships and banning from attending European competitions for the 06/07 season.
06/07 season withholding points dropped from 17 to 9
AC Milan (football club)
Judgment upheld to stay in Division 1 for the 06/07 season
We'll be able to compete in Europe in the coming season.
Reduced 05/06 season points from the original 44 points deducted to 30 points
Reduced the number of points withheld first from the 06/07 season from 15 to 8 points
Fine raised to 100,000 euros
1 home event behind closed doors
Latium
Because the Italian FA president Frank Carraro only said "we can't make mistakes" in the phone recording, and the referee of the affected match was not included in the list of prosecutions, Lazio did not have a clear benefit, and was given a lighter sentence after the appeal:
Reduced the number of points withheld first from 11 to 3 for the 06/07 season
Florence
A lighter sentence was awarded on appeal because the chairman, Andrea Delavare, did not mention the refereeing arrangements in the recorded phone call:
Reduced 06/07 first withholding points from 19 to 15
Regina (name)
Reduced the number of points withheld first from 15 to 11 for the 06/07 season
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Italian FA President Frank Carraro and Vice-President Innocenzo Maggini are banned from football-related affairs for four and a half years and five years, respectively.
Insufficient trial for Paolo Bergamo, referee assignor of the Italian Refereeing Council; 2.5-year ban on soccer-related matters for Pierluigi Pairetto and President Tullio Ranes; 1-year ban on soccer-related matters for Gennaro Mazzei, Vice-President of the Refereeing Council of the National A/B League; warning for observer Pietro Ingargiora
Referees Massimo De Santis and Gianluca Papalesta were banned from soccer-related matters for four and a half years and three months, respectively; Pasquale Rodomonti, Gianluca Lorch and Paolo Tagliavento were acquitted for lack of evidence.
Border referees Claudio Pulis and Fabrizio Babini banned from soccer-related matters for 1 year
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