Juve cling on to 'tainted' titles
Friday 25 February, 2005
Juventus have rejected calls to have their trophies between 1994 and ’98 revoked after the doping trial evidence was released.
Earlier this year the Turin trial came to a close with chief of medical staff Dr Riccardo Agricola found guilty of administering substances, including EPO, while director Antonio Giraudo was cleared.
However, the reasoning behind the decision was only released this week with potentially damaging conclusions from the trial judges.
These include the belief that “substances were administered in order to fraudulently strengthen their performances and therefore influence the results in competition,” while some top stars were accused of “lying during their testimony.”
Now that the details have emerged, the FIGC and CONI’s anti-doping commission can begin to stage their own investigation that could potentially – though it is highly unlikely – see the trophies from 1994 to ’98 revoked.
“Nobody can take away what we won on the pitch,” assured Juventus director Roberto Bettega amid growing calls for an historic judgment.
The player who came off worse in the judge’s summing up was Moreno Torricelli. “His version of events was created and his behaviour should be investigated further.”
This infuriated the former Juve star, who is now plying his trade with Serie B outfit Arezzo, and he pledged to defend his good name.
“This sentence offends me because I am not a liar,” insisted Torricelli. “I cannot understand why a judge would make such serious allegations and I know I did everything by the book. When they asked me about medication I took at Juve, it was going back four or five years and it wasn’t easy to remember everything accurately. I never took anything illegal and just had integrators because we played every three days.”
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Friday 25 February, 2005
Juventus have rejected calls to have their trophies between 1994 and ’98 revoked after the doping trial evidence was released.
Earlier this year the Turin trial came to a close with chief of medical staff Dr Riccardo Agricola found guilty of administering substances, including EPO, while director Antonio Giraudo was cleared.
However, the reasoning behind the decision was only released this week with potentially damaging conclusions from the trial judges.
These include the belief that “substances were administered in order to fraudulently strengthen their performances and therefore influence the results in competition,” while some top stars were accused of “lying during their testimony.”
Now that the details have emerged, the FIGC and CONI’s anti-doping commission can begin to stage their own investigation that could potentially – though it is highly unlikely – see the trophies from 1994 to ’98 revoked.
“Nobody can take away what we won on the pitch,” assured Juventus director Roberto Bettega amid growing calls for an historic judgment.
The player who came off worse in the judge’s summing up was Moreno Torricelli. “His version of events was created and his behaviour should be investigated further.”
This infuriated the former Juve star, who is now plying his trade with Serie B outfit Arezzo, and he pledged to defend his good name.
“This sentence offends me because I am not a liar,” insisted Torricelli. “I cannot understand why a judge would make such serious allegations and I know I did everything by the book. When they asked me about medication I took at Juve, it was going back four or five years and it wasn’t easy to remember everything accurately. I never took anything illegal and just had integrators because we played every three days.”
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