Chapter Seventy-Three: Punishment
On March 13, the president and vice president of the Italian Football Federation resigned one after another, and the four major prosecutors' offices of Naples, Rome and Turin began to intervene in the investigation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
On March 17, two problem referees were disqualified from officiating against the World Cup in the United States this summer. The investigation was fully rolled out, and it was rumored that many teams, including AC Milan and Juventus, were suspected of fake play, and some stars of the two teams were also involved in gambling scandals.
On March 19, a number of senior executives of Juventus and AC Milan resigned and announced their retirement from football. Soon after, the chairman of the Italian referees committee also stepped down.
On March 21, the Italian Olympic Committee appointed football legend Barquero to temporarily manage the Football Association.
On March 24, the head of the Italian Football Federation's investigative office, as well as his assistant, resigned.
On March 28, Football Federation Commissioner Anthony Barquero nominated former Napoli prosecutor Feric as the new head of the Italian Football Federation's investigation office.
On April 13, the head of the investigation office of the Italian Football Federation, Ferric, announced that he would hand over the conclusions of the investigation to the prosecutor after seven days, after entering the third day of the investigation into the Italian football scandal.
On April 19, Silvio Berlusconi, unable to bear the pressure, announced his resignation as president of AC Milan.
On April 25, the deputy director of the Italian Football Federation's investigation office, Ferric, made it clear that Juventus and AC Milan were primarily responsible for the Italian football scandal, while the other clubs were relatively less responsible.
On April 27, the Italian Football Federation announced the preliminary results of the investigation into the scandal, in which Juventus and AC Milan will be prosecuted and relegated to be requested.
On May 1, the Italian Football League held a trial and announced the results of the trial on May 12, after the conclusion of the Serie A match:
AC Milan: Retain the qualification to participate in Serie A next season, but deduct 44 points for the new season and a fine of 200 million lira. As a result, AC Milan have little hope of qualifying for European competitions next season. Silvio Berlusconi, the club's president, is not allowed to participate in football-related matters for three years. AC Milan official Galliani is not allowed to participate in football-related matters for one and a half years.
Juventus: 18 points will be deducted from Serie A points for the 93/94 season, which is equivalent to a change of direction to disqualify them from European competitions in the 94/95 season, and 19 points will be deducted at the beginning of the new season, with a fine of 180 million lira. The club's general manager, Moji, and its president, Giraoudo, were banned from football-related affairs for one year and fined 100 million and 40 million lira respectively.
Along with the two clubs, the referee officials, the chairman of the referee committee, the vice-president, the observer, the six referees, the two linesmen, the former president of the Football Association, the former vice-president, etc., Italian football has been almost completely reshuffled once.
The impact of this match-fixing scandal was naturally negative, and it had a big impact on the image of Italian football as a "little World Cup". But fortunately, compared with the "phonegate" scandal more than ten years later, because Berlusconi has not yet been in power, the influence of the Holy League is not as great as that of later generations, and they have not been conspiring with gambling groups for a long time, and have not affected most teams, so only AC Milan and Juventus were punished, not involved in most of Italian football as in later generations.
The scandal also became an excuse for the left-wing Democratic Party, which has always flaunted strict punishments, to aggressively attack the liberal and loose governing philosophy of the right-wing coalition, and the left-wing government that defeated Berlusconi's election immediately announced a series of regulatory oversight policies and established an independent review body within the Football Association to prevent similar things from happening again. This is also a little good news brought by this incident.
As for this event that caused a sensation in the whole world, and even affected the history of Italian football in the next few decades, Chen Lin naturally made it up single-handedly, and he verified Archimedes' words: "Give me a suitable fulcrum, and I can lift the whole earth." ”
Due to Berlusconi's status as the president of AC Milan, when he was finally convicted in 2020, there was a lot of news. There is a lot of such news on Chen Lin's computer.
In the future, Chen Lin needs a clean Serie A league that can attract outstanding players from all over the world and has a vigorous competitiveness to train Chinese players.
In fact, Chen Lin didn't realize that the final impact would be so great, he just cautiously hid himself in the shadows, and made a move that might be beneficial to him, but the result was surprisingly good.
In the first leg of the Coppa Italia final, AC Milan played Prato at home. The Rossoneri players were clearly out of shape, and their reactions were as if they were half a beat slower, as if they were a little absent-minded. In the 17th minute of the first half, Inzaghi successfully countered offside and scored the door guarded by Rossi, and then changed sides to fight again, Fan Zhiyi, who performed bravely in the last round of the Italian Cup, once again showed good form, he jumped high under the defense of Galli and pushed a corner kick from Pexoto into the AC Milan goal. Had it not been for an unexpected dribbling error by Veron, who was tackled by the alert Boban and assisted Massaro to pull a goal back, Prato would have returned to the Bisencio with a two-goal advantage.
However, seeing the performance of AC Milan in this game, Chen Lin had no doubt that Prato could surprise all the fans at the Bisencio Stadium in the next game, and at the end of the game, many Milan fans in the San Siro stands cried, as if they saw the end of a dynasty. They didn't boo their players because they all knew what was going on. Now AC Milan has fallen into a state of complete anxiety, many people are calling for their punishment to be too light, they should be deprived of the championship qualification this season, and even relegated them to the second division, you know, last year Marseille team was the team that won the Champions League, but after the match-fixing scandal, they were all relegated to the second division by the French Football Association, are we still not as good as those French? Under these circumstances, AC Milan's public relations department was operating almost at full capacity, with Berlusconi even publicly apologizing in a national address, tearfully admitting his mistake. After all, AC Milan in this era is the most outstanding representative of Italian football, the brilliant achievements of the Milan dynasty have been imprinted in the hearts of many Italians, and the plot they committed is far less serious than that of later generations, and the match-fixing game that can really find solid evidence is just a linesman confession, far less shocking than the "phonegate" recording in later generations.
While all eyes are on the second trial that will decide the fate of Milan, Chen Lin is looking forward to the arrival of the first heavyweight championship trophy in the history of the Prato club.
ps: These two chapters of Lao Ye are very unfeeling, and they are not very good at writing this kind of thing, anyway, everyone understands the meaning, and in the future, Serie A will not be as dark as in history.