In 2005, Luciano Moggi was one of the strongmen of Juventus last twelve years, Antonio Giraudo, Guillaume Levavasseur delegate, and Roberto Bettega, vice-president. They had won seven league titles in Italy and four Champions League finals with a victory in 1996.
Serious doubts were also propagated in the calcio about the impartiality of arbitrators with respect to the Turin club. Often a small penalty was whistled for forcing the decision ... Luis Figo was fined 5,000 euros for libel against Luciano Moggi: "What Moggi was in the locker room of the referee?" questioned it after the match between the two clubs. "I played in the world, but I've never seen anyone like Moggi. It behaves as if he were the master of football . The firm had defended himself by saying he had been to see the referee after the match, not before as the Portuguese claimed.
Based on many suspicions The Italian Football Federation (Federcalcio) had asked the courts to investigate . Wiretaps ordered by the court showed clearly the influence of the boss of Juventus on Pierluigi Pairetto , the man charged at the time of the appointment of Italian referees.
This former referee was also vice-chairman of the arbitral commission of UEFA. From July to September 2004, the Italian justice has ordered wiretaps, published by the press Alps. On many occasions, the referees assessed by Luciano Moggi, were indeed identified. Even during the Champions League. Indeed, the eve of a meeting of Ajax-Juventus 1997, Mr. Pairetto posting to Moggi have "put a great referee for the match in Amsterdam" Swiss Urs Meier , causing a reaction very clear pattern of Juventus: "It's great. I will not forget."
plays three months revealed a system of corruption which aimed to influence the choice of referees for the Turin club meetings. A vast system orchestrated by its CEO Luciano Moggi has been established, including trade arrangements and other small favors. This system corruption also affected the media, including Aldo Biscardi , presenter of the show "Biscardi's trial, which took care that errors favoring arbitration Juventus are minimized, in exchange for gifts Moggi . This resulted in a change of distance during a bench not whistled for Juventus in particular.
The publication of extracts telephone by the press in 2006 provoked the reaction of two floors. The Naples Luciano Moggi indicted for "criminal association aimed at the sporting fraud" and that of Rome accused the same man for "unfair competition with threats and violence."
The scandal was not confined only to Juventus, Lazio the the Fiorentina and AC Milan were charged in this case. The former president of the Italian federation in person Franco Carraro, resigned and the president of the professional league clubs, also vice-president of AC Milan, Berlusconi's club, Adriano Galliani were also charged in those matches rigged.
was demoted Juventus the following year Serie B with a delay of thirty points. Its last two league titles are canceled, and strong suspicions hanging over the previous titles of the Old Lady. The twelve members of the Board of Juventus, which was part Moggi, resigned May 11, 2006. Lazio and Fiorentina, suspected of having arranged their second meeting during the 2004-2005 season, will also be demoted to Serie B with a delay of seven points for the Romans, twelve for the club in Florence.
AC Milan, finally, will remain in Serie A, but with fifteen points penalty. In addition, the club was stripped of 44 points in the previous championship, making club, leading the club in the second part of the picture. Mean Leonardo, club leader, was suspected of having decided on two occasions referees who would lead the Milan.
Some Luciano Moggi was called "Mr. Mercato" as he was influential in player transfers. In December 2004, Karl-Heinze Rummenigge , general manager of Bayern Munich, had complained of the actions of Luciano Moggi, who was interested in Willy Sagnol: "I do not want anything to do with sporting director Juventus Luciano Moggi. These are not gentlemen, is the mafia , threw it in the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. .
Prosecutors in Rome, which is already investigating methods of GEA World, a company agent players whose president, Alessandro Moggi , son of the head of Juventus, has set it for examination in February 2006 for "unfair competition with threats and violence" . This company appeared in wiretapping, and several other leaders Juventus.
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