When Luciano Moggi attended this year’s hearings at the Naples tribunal, his main objective was not to have Juventus reclaim the Scudetti won in 2005 and 2006, it wasn’t to clear the name of Juventus or even attempt to implicate other teams; his main objective was one of more importance than anything else, to clear his own name .
For years we have heard about “The Moggi System” and since 2006, evidence has surfaced to show that this was not a “Moggi System” and that it could have been called “The System”.
Speaking to referees and referee designators before games was the norm in Italian football, every club did it but the tribunal in 2006 made it seem like it was only Luciano Moggi who did this and by the end of the court case he was accused of having “an exclusive relationship” with the match officials. We all know what happened after that.
If there was one word that was the theme of the entire adventure that is Calciopoli, it would be the word exclusive. Moggi and his lawyers spent countless hours going through evidence to prove to the court that there was his relationship with match officials was in no way exclusive and that other club officials also behaved in a similar manner.
Only four months prior to the announcement of the Naples tribunal, lead FIGC investigator Stefano Palazzi released a report stating that “Inter (Milan) violated the article relative to sporting fraud with regards to the possibility of taking advantages in the standings.” This was announced after evidence showed that former Inter president Giacinto Facchetti had regular contact with former referee designators Paolo Bergamo and Pierluigi Pairetto.
It is not clear how such shocking revelations could be ignored in a court of law. This goes on to doubt the legitimacy on the other rulings announced by the Naples tribunal.
The Naples tribunal based their sentence on nine different points, one of them being that Luciano Moggi had arranged for four Udinese players to receive yellow cards in a match against Brescia in order for them to miss the next game versus Juventus. Had the court done some very, and I mean very, basic research, they would have noticed that all those players played in the following game versus Juventus.
Such deliberate disregard for obvious facts and evidence goes to show that Luciano Moggi was facing a lost cause before he even started. For this reason, the topic of Calciopoli will never fade away and Moggi’s name will never be cleared as the entire case was mismanaged in 2006 and still is being mismanaged five years later.
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Well-written. Calciopoli was indeed a joke. And Juventus paid the price…
juventus is making a mistake by exonerating themselves from moggi. If they want their scudetti back, they should team up & fight the case with him bcos their are so many lapses in these rulings.