Luciano Moggi

Yes.

Which is Luciano Moggi.

Yeah, Moggi.

The, the name Moggi, um, is, is synonymous with this scandal in that you hear his name now, certainly for me, and I go, "Ah, the guy, the match fixing guy."

Yeah.

Um, basically, right, this is what happened to, um, the main people involved.

So Luciano Moggi was given a five-year ban for football.

I think now eventually a, a lifetime ban from football.

Sporting fraud.

Senior officials, especially General Manager Luciano Moggi, were found to have improperly influenced the system, used to appoint referees and match officials, trying to secure favorable refereeing conditions.

And what was their punishment?

They were relegated to Serie B.

And without getting too into the weeds on this, it was a massive match-fixing and referee selection scandal.

You had kind of a few major clubs involved, primarily Juventus, and this included the general manager Luciano Moggi.

And officials at major clubs like him were found to have conspired with people involved in referee assignments.

Always good, right? Making the game fair.

If you want a comparison, um, I think that the Juventus sort of Calciopoli scandal t- k- gives you a lot of perspective on this.

So Luciano Moggi was e- was employed by the Agnelli family to, uh, liaise with the refereeing, uh, body in, in Italy and, and it was about selection of referees for certain games, and there was basically a foolproof, easily to, easy to manipulate system whereby Moggi could liaise with the referees association and get favorable referees for Juventus games.

On top of that, there were wiretaps uncovered where the referees were joking about luxury gifts that they were receiving and, um, not...

Finally, using Swiss, uh, SIM cards, Moggi was communicating directly with referees so that, uh, Juventus were getting preferential on-field decisions.

It's about a network of power within Italian football, which had three tiers of control.

You know, you have kind of Juventus' general manager, Luciano Moggi, sort of, um, having this massive contacts network, um, it being very active, um, sort of calling up the referee designator, who's going in the draw for, for this week's, uh, round of games, uh, particularly the big games, the ones that involve us and our opponents, uh, or our rivals for the title.

That referee's performed poorly against us.

Can you put this referee in the, in the draw instead? He's refereed well against us, and that sort of thing.

So Calciopoli, for example, unlike this case with the Premier League, which has taken, what, eight years since the beginning of the investigation, Calciopoli was one and done in one summer, um, you know, whilst Italy was, was competing at the, the World Cup in 2006.

And the criminal trial sort of ended in 2010, and there were appeals, and it ended in 2015, and they came to very different outcomes.

You know, I mean, Calciopoli ends with Moggi, the general manager of Juventus, the chief executive of Juventus, also being banned for life, the team being relegated, points deductions, and that sort of thing.

Other teams were given points deductions, Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, Regina.