By the way, Luciano Moggi—the former managing director of Juventus who was at the heart of the Calciopoli scandal in 2006—has been sentenced to jail, kind of. He got an 18-month sentence, but won’t serve any of it due to the tender provisions of the Italian legal system: the sentence will be suspended during the appeals process, his crimes are covered by an amnesty passed in 2006, etc. Various English-language news outlets have described the sentence using headlines like “Moggi Jailed,” but don’t believe it. Of course, Moggi himself insists that the sentence is a disgrace and that he’s innocent. He’s about as innocent as he is in prison, of course.
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by Brian Phillips · January 9, 2009
Italy always loves to blame itself.
Moggi was absolved by the court. He was charged of refrees corruption, of having faked matches, of menacing players. If any of you knows italian and reads the sentence of the judge, he’ll find that Luciano Moggi did none of these things. He was condamed because of bad and unloyal behaviour. In my opinion, he was rightly condamned because he truly behaved unloyaly. But I believe that he is not guilty of the other imputation because I really haven’t seen any proofs of them, and because I did watched those championships. And the team which won them deserved them. I am no Juventus supporter, by the way.
You won’t read this on italian newspapers because the press decided Moggi was giulty even before the beginning of the trial. And now that he was absolved, no one writes about it.
If you want to know how things really work in Italy, think at this. Even if there’s no Mafia around, everyone keeps accusing of Mafia anyone who is better than him. Just endlessy.
Because italians loves to blame themself.