Moggi goes on the attack
Friday 25 August, 2006
Disgraced former Juventus director Luciano Moggi is back and is not afraid of slating the entire world of Italian football.
The ex-director general was placed at the centre of the Calciopoli probe after his intercepted phone calls were published in the media and was handed a five-year ban by the sporting justice system, but Moggi refutes the idea that he was the only one responsible.
“I will not accept that myself and Antonio Giraudo are considered the only guilty parties in this issue,” said Moggi in a Press Conference in Siena.
“If the verdicts are being gradually reduced and there are no more corrupt parties, that means that we are not guilty of corrupting anybody. You need to prove there has been wrongdoing to accuse someone and in this case there is no proof, only hypotheses,” added Big Luciano.
The former Juve official denied that referee Massimo De Santis ever favoured the Bianconeri and once again asked for proof of the 'Moggi System’ referred to in the scandal.
“The trial has not proved the existence of any effective match-fixing and all the referees have been acquitted, I believe that doesn’t need any further explanation. We have been accused of trying to arrange some matches, but we never received the list of incriminated games.”
Moggi also added that he doesn’t think it was fair to assign the Scudetto to Inter, seeing that Juve earned it on the pitch.
“I hear everyone talk about the Scudetto of honesty, but can we say that a club who fielded players with a false passport is really honest?” he said, referring to the scandal involving Inter player Alvaro Recoba.
“If the title really needed to be reassigned, it should have been given to Roma, who played with a young and entertaining team.”
Moggi will keep on fighting, although his appeal to the TAR tribunal was rejected on Tuesday, and says that fans still stop him in the street to show their support.
“People tell me I am not alone and that is what I also said to the judges: there are 13 million Juve supporters that are watching, they can’t just punish us with no evidence.”
Originally Fiorentina, Lazio and Juventus were demoted and handed points penalties, but after the appeal only the Bianconeri remain in Serie B with a 17-point handicap.
Friday 25 August, 2006
Disgraced former Juventus director Luciano Moggi is back and is not afraid of slating the entire world of Italian football.
The ex-director general was placed at the centre of the Calciopoli probe after his intercepted phone calls were published in the media and was handed a five-year ban by the sporting justice system, but Moggi refutes the idea that he was the only one responsible.
“I will not accept that myself and Antonio Giraudo are considered the only guilty parties in this issue,” said Moggi in a Press Conference in Siena.
“If the verdicts are being gradually reduced and there are no more corrupt parties, that means that we are not guilty of corrupting anybody. You need to prove there has been wrongdoing to accuse someone and in this case there is no proof, only hypotheses,” added Big Luciano.
The former Juve official denied that referee Massimo De Santis ever favoured the Bianconeri and once again asked for proof of the 'Moggi System’ referred to in the scandal.
“The trial has not proved the existence of any effective match-fixing and all the referees have been acquitted, I believe that doesn’t need any further explanation. We have been accused of trying to arrange some matches, but we never received the list of incriminated games.”
Moggi also added that he doesn’t think it was fair to assign the Scudetto to Inter, seeing that Juve earned it on the pitch.
“I hear everyone talk about the Scudetto of honesty, but can we say that a club who fielded players with a false passport is really honest?” he said, referring to the scandal involving Inter player Alvaro Recoba.
“If the title really needed to be reassigned, it should have been given to Roma, who played with a young and entertaining team.”
Moggi will keep on fighting, although his appeal to the TAR tribunal was rejected on Tuesday, and says that fans still stop him in the street to show their support.
“People tell me I am not alone and that is what I also said to the judges: there are 13 million Juve supporters that are watching, they can’t just punish us with no evidence.”
Originally Fiorentina, Lazio and Juventus were demoted and handed points penalties, but after the appeal only the Bianconeri remain in Serie B with a 17-point handicap.
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