Football betting fire week. The investigation, as is well known, proceeds along two tracks, connected to each other but by absolutely independent procedures and sentences: that of the ordinary judiciary, by the Prosecutors of Cremona (the one further on, which has already ordered detentions and searches and given way to interrogations), of Bari and Naples (which has just closed the investigation) for the crimes of conspiracy and sports fraud, and that of sports justice, coordinated by federal prosecutor Stefano Palazzi, which starting Thursday, making use of the documentation of the Lombard and Apulian magistrates, began to put Serie A, B and Lega Pro teams and players under pressure.
INVESTIGATIONS AND ARRESTS – The week that is destabilizing the world of Italian football, first leading Prime Minister Mario Monti to hope for a stop to the championships for 2-3 years and then the same blue coach Cesare Prandelli to declare his willingness not to take the field at the European Championships if it were deemed preferable , started on Monday with a series of arrests and searches that saw dozens of characters end up in the eye of the storm. Among the most prominent, the captain of Lazio Stefano Mauri and the former Genoan Omar Milanetto, both still in Cremona prison following the confirmation of the precautionary custody by the investigating judge Guido Salvini, once the (unconvincing) defense of the two players. To whom a close and at least suspicious relationship with the "gypsy" gang is contested, which has organized match-fixes from North to South involving dozens of characters including managers, footballers and insiders. The most incriminated match is Lazio Genoa of 14 May 2001 (finished 4-2), for which Beppe Sculli, Kakhaber Kaladze and the international Domenico Criscito are also in trouble, reached by a guarantee notice while he was in the retreat (which he later had to abandon) in Coverciano. Among the Azzurri, the Juventus player Leonardo Bonucci is also under investigation, for facts attributable to the period of his militancy at Bari, but the defender will apparently leave for Poland in any case following the 23 chosen by Prandelli.
JUVENTUS – Staying on the subject of Juventus, it was the week also of the Conte and Buffon cases. For the technician, investigated and searched, the alleged involvement concerns last season of Siena, of which he was coach, and in particular the matches with Albinoleffe and Novara. The Tuscans are currently the Serie A club with the most delicate position on paper (even if today Palazzi has only asked for a 50 thousand euro fine), but the coach's responsibilities are still to be clarified. As well as the nebulous Buffon affair needs to be clarified, who first intervened for free (perhaps it would have been better to keep silent...) claiming the legitimacy of the "settled" matches at the end of the season, and then was first seen brought up by the prosecutor of Cremona Roberto Di Martino ("If you know something, speak" ), and then by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Turin with a report which testifies to a payment of checks by the porter to a tobacconist's shop in Parma used for gambling for a value of over 1,5 million euros. "Better two wounded than one dead", is the phrase that caused such a stir. At the moment, a simple - perhaps questionable - personal opinion, but now Buffon finds himself in the midst of the media-judicial tussle, further destabilizing the blue expedition to Poland after the cases of Bonucci and Criscito.
A LEAGUE - Going back to the clubs, those in Serie A most at risk at the moment are Lazio (which will probably be penalized and excluded from the Europa League), Lecce (which risks Lega Pro, having already been relegated on the field), Siena (for which it is even the president Mezzaroma involved), Genoa and Chievo. It is rumored, but more as a media provocation than anything else, that the investigation may also touch Juventus for objective liability, but it seems clear that the Juventus club is absolutely unrelated to the possible responsibilities of Conte and Bonucci, which occurred in previous periods and militancy in other teams. However, even Juve, by virtue of article 2 of the new UEFA regulation wanted by Platini (“a club must not be directly and/or indirectly involved in any activity aimed at influencing the outcome of national or international matches”), could see their participation in the next Champions League in question. Napoli runs the same danger: the public prosecutor's office in the Campania capital served a notice of conclusion of the preliminary investigations to former footballers Matteo Gianello and Silvio Giusti, accused "of having committed acts aimed at altering the result of the Sampdoria-Naples football match of 16 May 2010".
NAPLES - Gianello, at the request of Giusti and other people, made contact with some teammates, especially defenders Paolo Cannavaro and Gianluca Grava, promising them a sum of money, quantified in tens of thousands of euros per person, if they contributed to facilitate the victory of Sampdoria. Even in this case, however, it should be emphasized that the two players (still in Mazzarri's squad, while Gianello left two years ago and was the second goalkeeper at the time) flatly refused, and the match went on regularly. However, Cannavaro and Grava are at risk for failure to report, and for strict liability also the team of De Laurentiis. There is talk of a small penalty (1 point), but even here Platini's code of ethics still applies.
DEALS AND REQUESTS – Returning to Italy, awaiting the parallel ordinary trial, here are the first provisions of the sports justice. The settlements accepted by the Disciplinary on Thursday: in the 2012-13 championship Atalanta 2 penalty points and a 25 euro fine; Modena (2 points); Livorno (15 euro fine); Ascoli (1 penalty point and 20 thousand euro fine); Grosseto (6 penalty points, to be served in the 2012/13 Serie B championship, and a 40 euro fine); Frosinone (1 point); Cremonese (1 penalty point and a 30 euro fine). Christian Doni (2 years disqualification), Carlo Gervasoni (1 year and 8 months), Philip Carobbio (1 year and 8 months), Kewullay Conteh (1 year and 8 months), Alex Pederzoli (1 year and 4 months, plus a 10 euro fine), Francesco Ruopolo (1 year and 4 months), Antonio Narciso (1 year and 3 months), Dario Passoni (1 year and 2 months), Mirco Poloni (1 year), Juri Tamburini (10 months), Andrea De Falco (6 months), Alfonso De Lucia (5 months), Marco Cellini (4 months), Vittorio Micolucci (4 months), Nicola Mora (4 months) and Gianfranco Parlato (2 months).
These instead the requests of the Federal Prosecutor concerning the members: Alberti years 3 and 6 months; Bellodi 3 years; Caremi: 3 years and 6 months; Cassano: 5 years and radiation; Catinali: 3 years and 9 months; Colacone: 4 years; Consonni: 1 year; Comazzi: 4 years; Coser: 3 years; Federico Cossato: 3 years and 6 months; Cristante: 3 years; Franco De Falco: 4 years and 6 months; Ferraris: 3 years; Fissore: 3 years and 9 months; Fiuzzi: 4 years; Fontana: 3 years and 6 months; Garlini: 3 years; Iaconi: 4 years and 6 months; Iacopino: 3 years and 6 months; Italian: 3 years; Job: 4 years and 6 months; Magalini: 4 years; Mastronunzio: 4 years and 6 months; Nassi: 4 years; Nico: 3 years; Paoloni: 6 months; Rickler: 3 years and 6 months; Gianni Rosati: 4 years; Santoni: 5 years and radiation; Santoruvo: 3 years; Sarri: 1 year; Sartor: 5 years plus radiation; Sbaffo: 3 years and 3 months; Serafini: 3 years and 6 months; Shala: 3 years and 6 months; Stefani: 4 years; Advantaged: 3 years; Fan: 3 years and 6 months; Zamperini: 5 years and radiation.
These finally at the moment requests from the Federal Prosecutor's Office concerning companies: AlbinoLeffe 27 penalty points in the next championship and a 90 euro fine; Ancona 10 points; Avesa 1 point and a 200 euro fine; Pescara 2 points; Empoli 1 point; Monza 6 points and exclusion from the Italian Cup; Novara 6 points, 50 thousand euros and exclusion from the Italian Cup; Padua 2 points; Piacenza 19 points and a 70 euro fine; Ravenna 1 point; Reggina 6 points; Sampdoria 50 euro fine; Siena 50 thousand euro fine; Spezia 30 thousand euro fine.
