Probably not for nothing we have Italian Championship called the “Series”. He has earned it, not only because of its name, but a series of scandals that happen there on average every 10 years. History of corruption scandals in Italian football has been around for more than 30 years. But every time it's on the successful performance of the country's national team. If the 80 's victory at the World Championships came with some delay, the Victory FIFA World Cup-2006 and at least silver on Euro-2012 followed in hot pursuit.
The first series started on the screens in 1980, then began an extensive investigation of dubious debut appearances. Head of Investigation Department of the Football Federation of Corrado de Biase after a series of publications in the press decided to check the integrity of a series of meetings in Rome Lazio.
March 23, 1980, fans at some Italian stadiums and millions of television viewers saw a very amusing scenes. Directly in front of the edge of the field stopped cars Carabinieri. Several footballers Eagles financial police arrested right at the stadium in Pescara at the end of the next match of the series were also Detained and in Genoa, Milan, Palermo, province of Avellino. Incarcerated spent 11 players and President of the rossoneri Felice Colombo. However, in April the footballers have been released on bail. The main characters of the scandal have become businessmen and Kručiani – they were avid Trinki fans clandestine Tote (legal bookmakers on the Apennines was) and, having got acquainted with football players Palermo and Lazio, gained the ability to bet on an outcome in advance of meetings.
The amazing thing is that both will eventually come to the Prosecutor's Office to surrender – after a number of matches ended not with the promised them the results, businessmen have suffered huge losses. Then do not become anyone Blanch – from their testimony indicated that the involved a large number of prominent football players, coaches, and managers. Among the clubs involved in totonero were representatives of Serie a: AC Milan, Lazio, Avellino, Bologna, Napoli and Juventus. With a particularly outstanding were not so kind: Milan, takes the third place in the Championship, and Lazio (13) were sent to Serie B. However, criminal cases against the players shut down, but they were disqualified Federation at different dates. Inter cooler and Paolo Rossi - hope.
Forced replacements in the squad and ugnetënnoe status of footballers could not but affect the performances in the final tournament of UEFA Euro 1980. The Azzurri had two zero draws against Spain and Belgium and somehow beat England (on 78 minutes, the only goal scored by midfielder Marco Tardelli). For the first place this was not sufficient, and the Italians had to play for the bronze. But here they failed is defeated by the team of Czechoslovakia in a penalty shootout – a fairy tale 8: 9.
The second series of the scandal on the 2006 year, only investigation was already much bigger outcome is loud, and the background is different. This time, police uncovered a conspiracy was primarily not bidding, and ensure the results you want. After the publication of La Gazzetta dello Sport transcripts of talks the head of Juventus Cr7 with members of the Association of judges, it became clear that the nomination of arbitrators for the matches in Serie a in the order of things. And this is, of course, with very clear goals.
What happened before the current Euro? The third series of the Italian soap opera was started in the year 2011, the scandal became known as kal′čioskomesse. Last summer among the victims of yet another investigation concerning the Treaty matches and bets on horses, were famous footballers Giuseppe Signori and Cristiano Doni. Their names first appeared in the pages of newspapers. Well, here is the old scenario: start to dig deeper than Italian law enforcement authorities, the more people are involved in clubs and dark deeds. Even in winter it was exclusively about the Serie B matches, the most high-profile name from was included in the name of Antonio Conte, Juventus later led to the first kal′čopoli title, and then under suspicion once during his work with the Siena.
Now the result got to Serie a. 19 people, including the captain of Lazio, lyubimets Tifosi "Eagles" Ctefano Mauri and former Fiorentina midfielder Omar Milanetto had been arrested, scandal and to team-Defender Zenit Criscito was questioned, his house was searched, and then Cesare Prandelli announced that Domenico not enough calm to take part in the European Championship, and left it out for the tournament. According to the laws of Italy, if a sport is not even proven fault Criscito, but it turns out that he was aware of the fraudulent nature of the game, he would be disqualified for a period of six months.
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