Everything as per script. As the Gazzetta dello Sport already anticipated two days ago, and as was now in the air, the two different strands of investigation involving Juventus members (in other teams at the time of the disputed events) led to two different sentences of the sports justice.
Failed, amidst a thousand controversies, the attempts to plea bargain for Antonio Conte, the Disciplinary has ordered a 10-month disqualification for him: the current Juventus coach will thus miss the Super Cup final against Napoli scheduled for tomorrow in Beijing and, barring appeals, the rest of the season. Juventus will also have to do without the assistant coach, Angelo Alessio who has been suspended for eight months and the technical collaborator Cristian Stellini, who has already left the club after a two-and-a-half-year plea deal.
Decisive for the disqualification of Conte, Siena coach at the time of the events and tried for failure to report match-fixing in the matches against Albinoleffe and Novara in the 2010-2011 season, was the testimony of the repentant Filippo Carobbio, his player in the Tuscan club. While Carobbio's contribution was considered credible, the words of another excellent pentito were considered not equally reliable, albeit from another line of investigation (that of the Bari Public Prosecutor's Office), Andrea Masiello, Simone's teammate at the time Pepe and Leonardo Bonucci.
Precisely for this reason the two current Juventus players were acquitted by the Disciplinary Commission, despite the requests of the prosecutor Stefano Palazzi (who had also asked for 15 months and not 10 for Conte) had initially been very heavy: a year for the winger, even three years and six months for the defender.
In today's tranche of sentences also comes the relegation of Lecce's Lega Pro (with 6 penalty points), while there will be no penalty for Bologna in the next championship. The prosecutors had asked Marco Di Vaio for two penalty points and one year for failure to report, but the attacker (now abroad) was also acquitted. Comrade Daniele Portanova instead sentenced to six months.
Appeals start on 20 Augustat the Federal Court of Justice.
