Saturday,
July 29, 2006
Italian Soccor Penalties Significantly Reduced. Further Reductions
Sought Through Civil Litigation
The
ANNOTICO Report
Appeal
verdicts Relegate Only "Juventus" to Series
B, while Fiorentina and Lazio, are reinstated to
Series A,
while
those three plus
Both
Juventus and Fiorentina
threaten further Civil legal action to further reduce Penalties.
Appeal
verdicts
Fiorentina Reprieved of relegation
to Serie B but will be docked 19 points in this
season's Serie A.
Lazio Reprieved
of relegation to Serie B but will be docked 11 points
in this season's Serie A.
Juventus Remain relegated to Serie B but points deduction cut from 30 to 17 this season.
ITALIANS BREATHE
SIGH OF RELIF AFTER REPRIEVE
Buzzle.com
The
Guardian,
July
25, 2006
Soccer:
Fiorentina and Lazio are restored to Serie A while
Juventus and the other Italian Serie
A sides found guilty of taking part in a vast match-fixing ring last night had
their sentences significantly lightened.
An appeals panel here ruled that the
Juve are still stripped of the Serie
A titles they won in the past two seasons, will have to play three matches at a
neutral venue and have been fined B?120,000 (#85,000). But the sports judges'
reduction in the points handicap means that Juventus
could be back in the top division by the start of the 2007-08 season.
The important news for Silvio Berlusconi's side
With the various points penalties and Juve's
relegation, Internazionale come out on top of last
season's standings but it is not yet clear if the title will be awarded to them
as it may be left unallocated.
"For Juventus and its managers it's an
absolutely unsatisfactory sentence," Moggi's
lawyer told reporters.
The relegations of Fiorentina and Lazio were revoked
but penalties of 30 po! ints
each from last season's table means neither is in
The news of the outcome of the appeals was greeted with wild cheering by Lazio
fans outside the Rome hotel where the decisions were announced, happiness not
entirely shared by the club'! s president Claudio Lotito,
who had his own 3B=-year ban trimmed by a year while his B?10,000 fine was
trebled. "I'm not satisfied at all. Lazio has not broken any rule,"
he said. "The fact that we will not be taking part in the Uefa Cup [for finishing sixth last season] is not in line
with the truth."
Juventus said they would take further legal action
after yesterday's decision. "We absolutely cannot accept this
sentence," the chairman Giovanni Cobolli Gigli said on the club's website. "Worst of all, we
have been given a penalty which seriously prejudices next season."
The Fiorentina owner Diego Della Valle also
threatened further legal action in the civil courts. "It's the first step.
We haven't done anything and we will go down every avenue to clear our
name," said Della Valle, who had his own four-year ban trimmed by three
months but his initial B?30,000 fine almost doubled. "Now we will go to
all the courts to remove any shadow of guilt and give back what ! they have
taken from us."
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