Disgraced football director Luciano Moggi expressed his confidence that the story surrounding Calciopoli will change after he gave a box of evidence to state broadcaster Rai.
Calciopoli was one of the largest sporting scandals in Italy in recent memory, stemming from the work of a number of clubs who tried to be given favourable referees for league games. Several teams were implicated in the scandal, including Juventus, who were stripped of two Scudetti.
Moggi was a central figure in the scandal and was banned for life from Italian football, a ruling he’s continued to appeal against in the years since.
Speaking to Libero, Moggi gave some hints at what would be covered in the next episode of Report, a Rai 3 programme that’ll focus on Juventus’ involvement in Calciopoli.
“I have given Report the audios that rewrite Calciopoli. Now a box containing the key containing all the intercepted calls that the court in Naples did not want to hear, retraces the story of that ugly period told, unfortunately, in a distorted way by those who should have handled the truth.
“It was delivered to several people, especially to Gravina, president of the FIGC, who culpably gave no answer as to its content, perhaps he even threw it in the rubbish bin without reflecting that with that gesture he was throwing away the lives of many good people.”
The former Juventus director sniped at FIGC president Gabriele Gravina and hinted at some wrongdoing during Gravina’s time in charge of lower division side ACD Castel di Sangro.
“It is evidently enough for him to have the chair firmly under his ass and, above all, that no one talks about Castel di Sangro, that is, the period in which he was president of that club.
“In the meantime, it would be interesting if the FIGC president Gravina could enlighten us on the reason for the ban, given that the sporting trial had ended with a sentence read out by Professor Serio, a member of that Court: ‘regular championship, no match altered’.”
What a funny guy.