Chapter Eighty-Eight: This Is the Telephone Gate

On the afternoon of 14 May, Lazio ended their 2005-2006 season with a narrow 1-0 win at home to Parma.

Before the game, they were greeted by the Parma team.

This is a tribute to the winners of the UEFA Cup.

Lazio brought the UEFA Cup trophy to their home stadium to show the home fans.

The season is over, but the phonegate is getting stronger.

In the final round of the league, Juventus, who were at the center of the maelstrom, defeated Reggina 2-0 away.

But there is little point in this game anymore.

Everybody cares about the phone door.

In the stands there were Juventus fans who unfurled banners accusing the club's management led by Moggi collectively.

"They defiled Juventus!

"Juventus' tradition is not fraud!" ”

They also defended their team's title.

"Our championship is earned by sweat!"

"It's the management who is dirty, the team is innocent!"

But none of this will save Juventus from the fate that follows.

In fact, in the phonegate incident, it was the fans who were most seriously injured. These Juventus fans genuinely cheer for every victory and every championship of the team, never thinking that these titles and victories were probably obtained by unfair means. It's a huge hurt to their feelings. The fans gave everything, only to find out that what they supported and trusted was based on a false foundation.

This is unacceptable to many people.

When Juventus are really penalized or even relegated for match-fixing, the players can pat their butts and walk away, and they won't be paid less. The management of the club can be changed, and they are not short of money.

What about the fans?

From now on, everyone who sees them will use the phone door to ridicule them for liars that they like a team of liars.

They gave everything sincerely. It's ironic that this is the result......

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After the final round of the league, Moggie announced his retirement from football.

Later that same day, the chairman of the Italian referees committee, Ranesse, also stepped down.

The storm is blowing harder and harder.

More people were involved, more teams were pulled out.

It's not just about the Juventus family anymore.

AC Milan, Fiorentina were also implicated, and even Lecce was investigated because of the phone recording.

In addition to match-fixing and manipulating referees, there are other things about Juventus.

For example, the problem of Juventus's fake accounts is mainly the transfer of Buffon and Brigi in 2002.

From this point we can see the wisdom of the victory. Helping people do this kind of thing, if you don't check it, it's just a matter of paying it back. As long as someone has the heart to check, it is definitely a check, and no one can run away. Lazio did not accede to Lecce's request. Not only did he get rid of match-fixing, but more importantly, he avoided being turned over in the future. Just like Juventus.

Then there is the scandal of the Italian brokerage company GEA.

GEA, formerly known as general_ic, was co-founded by former Lazio President Cragnotti, former Parma President Tanzi and Bank of Rome President Geronzi, and started as a "princeling" company, with Gelongzi's daughter Chiara, Craniotti's son Andrea and Tanzi's daughter Francesca in charge. and owns 60% of the shares. In 2000, the son of Juventus general manager Moggi Jr. officially joined, and the football_ of the Moggi family merged with general_ic to form a gea_world broker company, with both parties holding 45% of the shares. And then Andrea and Francesca left one after another, and Moggie Jr. became president. GEA became a powerful tool for the Moji family.

GEA agents have a monopoly on the Italian player trading market, and any player trade between teams is subject to the Moggi faction. Under the suppression of the Mogi faction, many agents who do not belong to GEA basically cannot get along in Italian football. can only go abroad to develop.

They use all kinds of illegal means to manipulate player transfers and make a profit from them.

For example, Chiellini was a player shared by Roma and Livorno, and Juventus manager Moggi used various illegal means to threaten the personal safety of Chiellini's agent in order to buy him at a low price, and finally Chiellini's agent was forced to emigrate. Subsequently, the important figure of the GEA Group, David Brown. Lippi (the son of former Juventus manager "Silver Fox" Lippi) became Chiellini's agent. Chiellini eventually moved to Juventus.

Another example is that Moggi Jr. forced former Juventus player Mikoli to join GEA, but Mikoli did not agree. As a result, he became "persona non grata" within Juventus and was eventually kicked out of the team.

When Bayoko left his agent to join GEA, his former agent complained: "If a player doesn't go to GEA, he can't go to Juventus, how can I stop his career." ”

Stankovic once accused Moggi of trying to persuade him to change agents in Lazio's dressing room, and he and Moggie were on the same page.

Nesta is a player under GEA, and in the original transfer from Lazio to AC Milan, there was a shadow of Juventus everywhere, and GEA contributed a lot in it. One of the important reasons why the Holy Alliance is criticized and hated by others is this kind of monopoly and black-box operation.

As an agency, it has more than 200 players at all levels, and more than a dozen managers, including famous managers such as Mancini and Del Neri, which is a strange thing in itself. Who can guarantee that they will not be traded inside

, the guards steal themselves?

In addition to manipulating player transfers for profit, prosecutors also consider GEA to be a central institution that helps clubs launder money and balance budgets.

From 2002 to 2004, Serie A produced 874 million euros in non-existent assets. In fact, the approach is very simple, the two clubs agreed to balance the budget by exchanging players, so there was a scandal of a third-division player worth 22 million euros in Rome, while Inter Milan and AC Milan exchanged four unknown players from the youth team in 2003, each worth 3 million euros, until now. I haven't seen any of these players play, but Potenza and others, who refused to exchange between the two sides, have become professional players one after another.

In fact, Lazio is also involved, after all, GEA was once founded by the son of Lazio's former club president, Cloniotti. There have been problems with a number of transfer deals between Lazio and Juventus and Parma.

Luckily, the former president of Lazio FC, Cloniotti, who did these things, has left his post and has been arrested. It has nothing to do with Lazio FC now.

There is more and more unfavourable evidence about Juventus, Moggi and Girawudo, and there is a feeling that the wall is falling and everyone is pushing it.

Things that were once just rumors have been confirmed one by one, and Juventus' reputation is getting worse and worse with the "help" of Moggi and Girawudo.

Giraúdo, for example, has threatened Corioli, the president of Brescia, for demanding collective bargaining for television rights. Instead of letting the giants go to talk to the TV station alone, so that the giants can always get the biggest piece of the cake, and the small team can only eat the leftovers eaten by the giants. It's pitiful.

GiraUdo threatened Coriolis: "If you do this again, I'll let your team play in the amateur league!" ”

Previously, everyone only knew that Coriolis was threatened, but they didn't know who it was. Now everyone knows that it is the former general manager of Juventus, Girawudo, Moggi's predecessor.

And unfortunately. Giraoudo said this on the phone at the time, and after the phone door broke out, audio recordings about him were also recovered, and the evidence was conclusive.

Playing 60 games for the Italian national team and scoring seven goals, the famous star Dino Brown has scored seven goals. Why did Baggio suddenly disappear from the Italian national team? Because on January 9, 2000, Parma played against Juventus. Dino. Baggio made a "you took the money from Juventus" gesture to the referee at the time, Farina, who was banned for six matches and fined 100,000 euros. He was then suspended for two games by the national team, and then said goodbye to the Italian national team completely. In the summer of 2000, Parma sold him to Lazio, but unfortunately, the people who could play at that time were GEA people. That's it. The main core of the Italian midfield in the 1994 World Cup gradually withdrew from the Italian football stage.

Now the phonegate incident is getting worse. Dino. Baggio also came out to testify: "At that time, I blamed Farina, and the bad relationship with Gilaudo, which cost me dearly. ”

Lazio President Lotito's name also appeared in the phone recording.

Because Moggi gave the vice-president of the Italian Football Federation, Innocentzo. Mazzini called Lazio president Lotito: "He was a little useful to us in the professional league elections. Now he's a bitch dog, because he's not a good thing! ”

More and more phone recordings have come to light, and everyone has seen Moggi and Girawudo and other important people in Italian football, from the referees of the Football Association, to the sports judges responsible for adjudicating players, to the vice-president of the Italian Referees Association, and even those outside the football circle, who are having affairs with Moggi. For example, the head of the Investigation Office of the Italian Football Federation, the commander of the Tax Police, Papa, the main task of the Investigation Office of the Football Association, the director of the Italian Tax Police School, Attaerti......

Even Juventus insiders have come out to accuse Girawudo and Moggi, believing that the two of them have taken advantage of the trust placed in them by the Agnelli family to mess around and seek their own interests, putting Juventus FC in a very dangerous situation.

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Every day when you turn on the TV or open the newspaper, you can see that the latest phone recordings have been exposed, and the latest people have been pulled in.

After the end of the league, Chang Sheng did not leave Italy immediately, but continued to stay at home in Rome.

It is to keep track of the latest developments in the phonegate incident.

The fire of his gossip burns brightly.

It stands to reason that he, as a person who has come over, already knows the results, but he doesn't know much about many of the details. There are a lot of phone recordings, which are not reproduced by the Chinese media. Here he can get closer to the truth.

Moggi manipulates matches, manipulates player transfers, and can even decide whether a player can make it to the national team......

These things are becoming clearer and clearer under the exposure of the media.

This time, because of his insistence, Lazio was not involved in it, so he could watch the phonegate incident purely with the mentality of watching a play.

Lotito also called him to thank Chang Sheng for his persistence at the beginning, so that he and the club avoided falling into the abyss......

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Italy's four major prosecutors' offices in Rome, Turin, Naples and Parma are fully involved, and the Italian Football Federation is responsible for sports. Countless people have been investigated, and forty-one people have been summoned by the courts of Naples alone.

Carraro, Mazzini, Bergamo, Pairetto, former senior executives of the Football Association, Ranesse, president of the Referees Association, senior leaders of Juventus, Fiorentina, Lazio, AC Milan clubs, dozens of referees, agents, players, journalists, and high-level government officials are all listed.

The storm swept across Italy, drowning it in.