SocietàSportiva Lazio,commonly referred to as Lazio,is an Italian professional sports club based in Rome,most known for its football activity. The society,founded in 1900,plays in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football. Lazio have been Italian champions twice,and have won the Coppa Italia seven times,the Supercoppa Italiana three times,and both the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Super Cup on one occasion.
Pavel Nedvěd is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is widely considered as one of the greatest midfielders of his generation and as one of the most successful players to emerge from the Czech Republic,winning domestic and European accolades with Italian clubs Lazio,including the last Cup Winners' Cup,and Juventus,whom he led to the 2003 UEFA Champions League final.
Goran Pandev is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Igli Tare is an Albanian retired professional footballer who played as a forward. He is the former sporting director at Serie A club Lazio.
Calciopoli was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie B. Involving various clubs and numerous executives,both from the same clubs and from the main Italian football bodies,as well as some referees and referee assistants,the scandal was uncovered in May 2006,when a number of telephone tappings showed relations between clubs' executives and referee organizations during the football seasons of 2004–05 and 2005–06,being accused of selecting favourable referees. This implicated league champions Juventus and several other clubs,including Fiorentina,Lazio,AC Milan,and Reggina. In July 2006,Juventus was stripped of the 2004–05 Serie A title,which was left unassigned,and was downgraded to last place in the 2005–06 Serie A,as the title was subsequently awarded to Inter Milan,and relegated to Serie B. Initially Fiorentina and Lazio were also relegated though this was later overturned on appeal,meanwhile all five clubs received points penalties for the following season. In July 2006,the Italy national football team won the 2006 FIFA World Cup,beating the France national football team 5–3 in a penalty shoot-out following a 1–1 draw at the conclusion of extra time;eight Juventus players were on the football pitch in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final,five for Italy and three for France. Many prison sentences were handed out to sporting directors and referees but all were acquitted in 2015,after almost a decade of investigation,due to the expiration of the statute of limitations,except for a one-year sentence confirmed to referee Massimo De Santis.
Lucas Rodrigo Biglia is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Stefano Mauri is an Italian former footballer,who spent most of his career with Lazio,also serving as the club's captain. A versatile midfielder,he was capable of playing as an attacking midfielder,as a central midfielder,and as a winger,or even in a more advanced role,as a second striker,courtesy of his dribbling skills,precise passing,and playmaking ability. Although predominantly left-footed,he was also capable of striking or passing the ball well with his right foot.
Cristian Daniel Ledesma is an Argentine-born Italian retired footballer who played as a central midfielder. He is currently working as a youth coach for Frosinone.
Delio Rossi is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder.
Mauro Matías Zárate is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Danubio.
Antonio Candreva is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right midfielder or right winger for Serie A club Salernitana.
Davide Ballardini is an Italian football manager. He is currently the head coach of Serie A club Sassuolo.
Anderson Hernanes de Carvalho Viana Lima,known as Hernanes,is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central or attacking midfielder.
Libor Kozák is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a striker.
Federico Marchetti is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Maltese Premier League club Ħamrun Spartans.
Marco Parolo is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentine former professional footballer and current chairman of Estudiantes de La Plata,where he had served as Director of Sports. In 2004,Verón was included in the FIFA 100 list of the 125 greatest living footballers,selected by Peléas part of FIFA's centenary celebrations. Verón has both Argentine and Italian citizenship. His nickname is "La Brujita",a nod to his father Juan Ramón who was known as "La Bruja" and was also a championship winning player with Estudiantes.
Francesco Acerbi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team.
The 2004–2010 Italian football scandal,also known as Caso Plusvalenze,was a scandal over alleged false accounting at Italian football clubs. The investigation started in 2004 and concluded in 2010.
Sports proceedings began soon after Calciopoli,an association football scandal,was made public in May 2006. In July 2006,the Italian Football Federation's (FIGC) Federal Court of Justice started the sports trial. Juventus was relegated to Serie B with points-deduction,while other clubs only received points deductions. Most of implicated club's presidents and executives,as well as referees,referee designators,referee assistants,and FIGC higher-ups were initially proposed to be banned for life but only Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo and Juventus general director Luciano Moggi were confirmed to be banned for life. Two criminal trials took place in Naples,the first related to Calciopoli proper,while the second involved consultancy company GEA World,which was alleged to hold power over all transfers and Italian football players and agents;all defendants were acquitted of the stronger charges. The Naples trial resulted in Calciopoli bis,which implicated almost every Serie A club,including Inter Milan,to which it was awarded the 2006 scudetto. Moggi's legal defence attempted to present those new developments at the Naples court but they were refused because the court ruled that it was there to determinate whether Moggi's lifetime ban should be confirmed and the gravity of his actions,as was sentenced in the controversial 2006 sports trial.
