Luis Suarez’s Italian language examiner insists he has ‘never spoken with any representative of Juventus’ as investigations over the striker's citizenship exam continue.
Italian authorities are investigating alleged irregularities in Luis Suarez's Italian citizenship test in September. They believe Suarez knew the questions in advance and Juventus' CFO Fabio Paratici is under investigation.
Luis Suarez’s Italian language examiner insists he has ‘never spoken with any representative of Juventus’ as investigations over the striker's citizenship exam continue.
Italian authorities are investigating alleged irregularities in Luis Suarez's Italian citizenship test in September. They believe Suarez knew the questions in advance and Juventus' CFO Fabio Paratici is under investigation.
Lorenzo Rocca, one of his examiner of Suarez, has told La Repubblica he has never spoken to Paratici or any other Juventus representative.
“The exam was spoken, with understanding and listening tests. He knew how to answer,” Rocca said.
“If one knows the questions in advance, is it not difficult?”
Investigators have found a Teams’ conversation between Rocca and Suarez before the exam.
“I didn’t have any kind of relationship with Suarez,” Rocca insisted.
“If a complete stranger comes to my office and wants to know how the Italian exam works, I explain everything and give him the material to prepare, as we did with Suarez. It’s a PDF file downloaded from the website.
“I didn’t only ask the questions from that PDF and it wasn’t just me who asked the questions, other examiners did it too.
"I was not pressured by Juventus to promote him and I have never spoken with anyone from the club, neither with Paratici nor with others.
“There’s a wiretap where [University of Perugia’s CEO Simone] Olivieri tells me about possible future collaborations with Juventus and I don’t even answer him.”