There is no peace for our football. After Parma's bankruptcy yesterday, and after the Dirty Soccer investigation uncovered a vast system of match-fixing between Amateurs and Lega Pro, today a new betting scandal is unfolding: the protagonist is the Catania, a team that now plays in Serie B after a few years spent in Serie A.
According to the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of the Etna city, in fact, the company led by Antonino Pulvirenti he would have bought some matches in the cadet championship, to avert the risk, at a rather concrete point of the season, of a team's relegation to Lega Pro.
Seven Catania managers ended up in handcuffs after an investigation conducted by Digos and the Postal Police: the president Pulvirenti, the managing director Pablo Cosentino and the former sports director Daniele Delli Carri above all. The top management of the Etna company are accused of sports fraud and fraud.
“The risk of invalidating the championship does not exist. By definition, responsibility is individual, so whoever pays is responsible”. Thus the president of the Serie B League Andrea Abodi to Sky TG24 regarding the possibility that the investigation that hit some Catania managers could invalidate the Serie B championship that has just ended. “The situation is limited, even if there is undoubtedly an incident on the competition itself. At this point I only hope that, beyond the competition that has just closed, the new one can be reopened under the best auspices and that there is a process that will quickly allow us to start the competition".
