After a day of waiting it is the decision of the Board of Guarantee has arrived of Coni on the penalty of Juventus. The Council has in part Juve's appeal accepted for the capital gains case, postponing however the acts to the Football Federation for one new evaluation: reference is made "to the Federal Court of Appeal so that, in a different composition, it renews its assessment, in particular, with regard to the determination of the causal contribution of the individual directors, providing adequate reasons and drawing any consequences also with regard to the sanction imposed on charged to Juventus FCSpA” is what yes reads in the text that appeared on the Coni website.
With this decision comes the penalty suspended e returnedwhile waiting for the new judgement, the 15 points that had been taken from the Bianconeri. Rejected the appeals by former president Andrea Agnelli, Fabio Paratici, Federico Cherubini and Maurizio Arrivabene. Welcomedinstead, the appeal of the former vice-president Pavel Nedved, together with those of Paolo Garimberti and Enrico Vellano, positions which, according to the Board, become decisive for the redetermination of the sanction by the FIGC justice.
After this sentence, the Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport has one month for reasons. Ecosystem's staff is retrial could take place in the month of May (or June).
Change the Serie A standings
Waiting for the new judgement change the Serie A standings. Juve are back in full swing for a place in the Champions League. With the penalty suspended, Allegri's team goes up to third place at 59 points, -2 behind Lazio in second place and +6 on fifth place now occupied by Milan (53 points). A breath of fresh air for the international ambitions of the Bianconeri.
What had happened yesterday during the hearing at the College of Guarantee
The Attorney General of Sports Hugh Taucer, in conclusion of his speech, he had requested referral to the court of appeal to remodulate the sentence: “I would like to say that the actions of the Public Prosecutor's Office have been corrected and implemented by the Federal Court of Appeal in the revocation judgment. The opposing party's arguments do not hit the point, the accusatory hypothesis needs to be confirmed and therefore I pronounce myself in favor of rejecting the objections. compared toapplication of Article 4, of the lack of motivation, I fear there was a shortage in this regard to the points awarded to the team and that this should be evaluated in a new judgement".
La Juve asked for the sentence to be cancelled without postponement of sentence of 20 January. “The contested sentence is wrong, full of mistakes, which is why we ask for it to be annulled without referral. The numbers are irrelevant: an amount of capital gains of 60 million in a three-year period against revenues of 1,6 billion are just 3,6%. nothing that is justified by the fraudulent system at the start. There was no reflection on the field at all. The sentence of our penalty was wrong and with mistakes. Juventus has already been acquitted for the capital gains with a final sentence of May 2022. What has changed? The 14 pages of the Turin proceedings have arrived, but is there really anything that provides proof of the inflated values? No, there's just a general context. Nothing that changes the May acquittal” were the words of Maurice Bellacosa, Juventus lawyer during the hearing. The club's defense file consisted of 99 pages. Nine key points highlighted by the black and whites to obtain the appeal including the inadmissibility of the revocation, the procedural defect, the disproportionality of the penalty and the failure to evaluate an extenuating factor.
During the hearing it was also dismissed the appeal, judged inadmissible, by the lawyer Enrico Lubrano, representative of Codacons and the Maradona association who asked for the revocation of the 2018/2019 championship and the reassignment to Naples due to the club's irregularities with the capital gains system.
Il Guarantee College, meeting in joint section, was presided over by the State Advocate General Gabriella Palmieri Sandulli. The others members of the College they were Vito Branca, Attilio Zimatore, Massimo Zaccheo and Dante D'Alessio. For Juve there were i Legal Maurizio Bellacosa, Angelo Clarizia, Nino Paolantonio, Davide Sangiorgio and the new president Gianluca Ferrero. The debate took place in the Hall of Honor of CONI. Since the FIGC did not appear in court, Juve's counterpart was the sport attorney general through the prefect Ugo Taucer. The hearing, which began at 14,30 pm, lasted almost three hours.
Because Juventus had been penalized
Juve's penalty stems fromPrisma investigation conducted by the Turin Public Prosecutor who analyzed some market operations that they generated fictitious capital gains to adjust balance sheets. “A serious, repeated and prolonged offence” were the motivations of the Court of Appeal of the FIGC following the sentence with which the company was sentenced to 15 penalty points. In 36 pages, the FIGC's Court of Appeal explained the reasons that led to hitting Juve in the current season (going beyond the requests of the federal prosecutor's office) and to inhibit 11 executives including the former president, Andrea Agnelli, Pavel Nedved, the former sporting director, Fabio Paratici and Maurizio Arrivabene and other members of the board of directors who resigned at the end of last November. In particular, Juventus was challenged violation of Article 6, the one concerning the sporting loyalty.
Today Juve on the pitch in the Europa League. Curved Sunday present
The return of the 15 points, could give greater serenity at Juve to face the next races. The decision of the Coni Guarantee College could already be felt on the pitch shortly where the team will be engaged on the pitch in the second leg of the Europa League quarter-finals against Sporting Lisbon. Meanwhile, however, third place in the championship puts the black and whites back on track for a place in the Champions League without the obligation to achieve victory in the Europa League. In fact, victory in the Cup is worth direct access to the next Champions League.
And for the next challenge on Sunday against Napoli there it will also be the Curva Sud. The United Sections Federal Court of Appeals has in fact accepted Juventus' appeal against the one-round disqualification of the curve following the racist insults to Lukaku in the final minutes of the Coppa Italia match against Inter. The sector, therefore, will be regularly occupied by Juventus fans.
