Giovanni Cobolli Gigli

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Giovanni Cobolli Gigli
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Born (1945-01-04) 4 January 1945 (age 78)
Albese con Cassano, Italy
OccupationLawyer

Giovanni Cobolli Gigli (born 4 January 1945) is an Italian lawyer and former chairman of Juventus F.C. [1] [2] [3] After obtaining a business degree from Bocconi University and starting out working in marketing for a multinational pharmaceutical company, he joined Turin company IFI S.p.A., which is now Exor, in 1973. He has been CEO of the Fabbri–Bompiani–Sonzogno  [ it ]–Etas Publishing Group since 1984, then holding the same position in Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 1993, and in the Rinascente Group since 1994. In 2006, he became chairman of the Exor-owned Juventus association football club. [4]

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Early life

The son of Antongiulio Cobolli Gigli, he was born in Albese con Cassano, province of Como, in the Lombardy region, in 1945. He was the nephew of Giuseppe Cobolli Gigli, who was minister of public works for four years in the Mussolini government. He was a pupil of the Vittorio Veneto liceo scientifico  [ it ] in Milan; in the same city, Cobolli Gigli graduated in economics and commerce at the Bocconi University. [5]

Business career

In September 1980, Cobolli Gigli became the executive assistant to the CEO of the Fabbri Editorial Group. He became the general manager of that company in 1984; as RCS Group became stockholder of the Fabbri Editorial Group, in 1991, he was named CEO of Rizzoli's book sector in 1991. In November 1993, he joined the Mondadori publishing group and became CEO of parent company Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., as well as the director of many other companies within the group. In November 1994, he left to become CEO and general manager of the Rinascente Group. He stayed there until July 2005. [5]

In 2003, Cobolli Gigli became the chairman of Federdistribuzione  [ it ], and he has also been the deputy chairman and director of Confcommercio  [ it ], a position he left at the end of 2005; he remains involved within FAID, the association that brings together large-scale retail companies. [6] He has also been member of the board of directors of Alpitour  [ it ] (until April 2007) and Auchan (until October 2007) and member of the directorate and deputy chairman of the Italian Publishers Association  [ it ] (AIE). He sat on the board of directors of the Italian Trade Agency and of Federdistribuzione, of which he was confirmed as chairman in 2011, 2014, [7] [8] 2018, [5] and 2020. [9] Apart from AIE, he has also held the positions of deputy chairman of the Italian Newspaper Publishers Federation  [ it ]. [5]

Juventus F.C.

In the wake of the controversial Calciopoli scandal, [nb 1] Cobolli Gigli became the chairman of the board of Juventus; [14] [15] [16] being both the most supported and hated club in the country, one of the goals upon taking over Juventus was to be nice and more likeable. [4] [17] He completed the new triade along with Jean-Claude Blanc (managing director) and Alessio Secco (director of sport), which led Juventus back to the UEFA Champions League but they were not able to return the club to win Serie A or any other trophies, [18] [19] [20] and left the position to Blanc in 2009. [21] [22] In 2010, Blanc was succeeded by Andrea Agnelli, who, along with Giuseppe Marotta as new director of sport, returned Juventus to dominance; [23] in the aftermath of Calciopoli bis and the Calciopoli trials that acquitted the club, Agnelli also took a more radical and anti-system position compared to Cobolli Gigli, who was a moderate, and Gianni Agnelli's designed heir John Elkann, [24] who is a reformist. [25]

Cobolli Gigli's role in the aftermath of Calciopoli has been questioned and criticized. [nb 2] Several observers allege that Calciopoli and its aftermath were a dispute within Juventus and between the club's owners, who put Cobolli Gigli in charge, favoured Elkann over Agnelli as chairman, and wanted to get rid of Luciano Moggi, Antonio Giraudo, [27] [28] and Roberto Bettega, whose shares in the club increased, [29] Whatever their intentions, it is argued they condemned Juventus, firstly when Carlo Zaccone, the club's lawyer, [30] agreed for relegation to Serie B and point-deduction, [nb 3] and secondly when Luca Cordero di Montezemolo controversially retired the club's appeal to the Regional Administrative Court  [ it ] (TAR) of Lazio, [26] [nb 4] for which then FIFA president Sepp Blatter thanked Montezemolo, and that could have cleared the club's name and avoid relegation, [34] [35] after FIFA and UEFA threatened to suspend the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) from international play. [36] [37] [38] In September 2006, Cobolli Gigli took a U-turn from his previous statements, [39] [40] and led the moderate line to have the club controversially renounce the TAR's appeal; then CONI president Gianni Petrucci thanked Elkann and Montezemolo. [41] [nb 5]

The lack of TAR appeal, which is one of the reasons for which the club's appeals to return the 2005 and 2006 scudetti and FIGC damage claims all failed, amounted to a sort of public plea bargain and guilty admission; [nb 6] however, the club was later acquitted in the first ordinary justice proceedings, [43] [44] and Juventus were not liable by other clubs, [45] [46] as the 2004–06 leagues were regular. [47] [48] [nb 7] The initial view was that Juventus were the main culprit, [50] and referees, Inter Milan, and other clubs the victims. [51] As early as 2010, when many other clubs were implicated and Inter Milan, Livorno, and Milan were liable of direct Article 6 violations (the one about illicits warranting relegation; Juventus were never charged of Article 6 violations) in the 2011 Palazzi Report but were time-barred by the statute of limitations and could not be put on trial, [52] [53] [54] Juventus considered challenging the non-assignment of the 2005 title and the 2006 title assignment of third-placed Inter Milan, dependent on the results of Calciopoli trials connected to the scandal. [55] In July 2011, the FIGC declared itself not competent to rule on the decision and the title remained to Inter Milan, as Juventus claimed €443 million in damage claims. [56] [nb 8]

Cobolli Gigli came to agree on the criticism. [63] [nb 9] In May 2018, he said that Inter Milan "deserved to be punished" for Calciopoli, and expressed regrets for the sporting trials, about which he said: "We were demoted to play the 2006–07 season in Serie B and accepted the ruling. The regret remains for a sporting trial that was, in my view, not conducted in the best way. Certain pieces of evidence were ignored, actually it's more accurate to say hidden, and the existence of other telephone wiretaps regarding different clubs wasn't made known at the time. Inter [Milan] too deserved to be punished for what emerged in the various conversations. The FIGC Prosecutor Palazzi said so. It all emerged when the matter missed the statute of limitations and it ended like that." [67]

Cobolli Gigli remains a commentator for Juventus affairs. [68] [69] [70] About the capital gains scandal of the 2020s, [71] [72] which led to Agnelli's resignation, about which Cobolli Gigli said was forced, [73] he cited the Calciopoli unequal treatment and criticized the fact that only Juventus were punished. [74] Videos emerged of Ciro Santoriello, the capital gains case's prosecutor, mocking Juve; he declared himself a tifoso of Napoli and an anti-Juventus prosecutor. In response, Cobolli Gigli said: "Benigni reminded us that Article 21, on freedom of thought, is the most important. However, the manifestation of one's ideas must always be limited to one's duties. Therefore, I believe that if these gentlemen want to express their thoughts, they must do so without playing the roles they currently do. Santoriello should have kept his feelings to himself as a judge, Juve's acquittal on that occasion counts for little." [75]

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Explanatory notes

  1. ↑ Calciopoli remains a much-debated topic due to the one-sided focus on Juventus and Moggi, which was cited in the Naples sentence, [10] and its harsh, unprecedented punishment. [11] [12] [13]
  2. ↑ About the behavior of Juventus executives at the time and their lack of defance, 1980 Totonero chief investigator Corrado De Biase stated: "I can't know why the Juventus owners has moved in a certain way, but I would say, 99%, that the affair was skilfully managed by the leaders of the Turin club, starting with the request from Zaccone, who left everyone stunned. Zaccone isn't incompetent, as many believe, but he was only an actor in this story." [26] De Biase further said: "The point that makes me think that Zaccone acted on input from the owners is another, namely the way in which the top management of Juventus moved, with that fake appeal to the TAR. How, I wonder, you dismiss the executives, practically pleading guilty, then you watch inert and impassive a media and judicial destruction against your club and then you're threatening to resort to the TAR? It's the concept of closing the barn when the oxen have fled, if you think about it." [26]
  3. ↑ In later years, Zaccone clarified he made that statement because Juventus were the only club risking more than one-division relegation (Serie C), [31] and he meant for Juventus to have equal treatment with the other clubs; in the end, Juventus were the sole club to be relegated to Serie B. [32]
  4. ↑ About the club's renounce to the TAR appeal, De Biase said: "First you let yourself be massacred without lifting a finger, you have the title disassigned, you have the calendars drawn up for the European championships and cups, and then you threaten to go to the TAR, trumpeting everything in the newspapers? It looks much like a political move to appease the wrath of the fans, I think. If Zaccone, who is a man of value and experience, would have had the mandate to avoid the disaster he would have moved in a different way, in the sense that he would have pointed out these 'anomalies' in the time between the trial and the announcement of the verdicts. That, in fact, was the right moment to threaten to appeal to the TAR, when the sentences had not yet been written, but had to be done in camera caritatis, asking for a meeting with Ruperto, Sandulli, and Palazzi, and not in front of the journalists of La Gazzetta dello Sport." [26] De Biase concluded: "Please note that I'm not discussing the high strategy of the forensic art, but the basic principles, the ABC of the profession, the things that are taught to the boys who come to the studio to do a traineeship: if you, the defence attorney, think you have weapons to play, you ask for a meeting with the judge and the public prosecution, in the period between the trial and the verdict, and point out that, if the response is judged too severe, you will use them. And here there were weapons in industrial quantities. Then, in the face of a fait accompli, who takes the responsibility of stopping a machine that grinds billions of euros, so as to be the sixth industry in the country?" [26] Several observers, including former FIGC president Franco Carraro, [33] argue that had Gianni Agnelli and his younger brother, Umberto Agnelli, been alive, things would have been different, as the club and its directors would have been defended properly, which could have avoided relegation and cleared the club's name much earlier than the Calciopoli trials of the 2010s. When Tangentopoli hit the country in the 1990s, Gianni Agnelli said: "My men must be defended to the last degree of judgement." [24]
  5. ↑ Cobolli Gigli defended the club's choice. In 2014, he said: "As has already been said several times, we had received heavy warnings and pressure from UEFA which had threatened to exclude us from international competitions for the next few years. And at that point we were cornered and inevitably had to act that way. ... And I repeat, it was an inevitable decision to avoid heavy sanctions and very much negative repercussions for the club's future." [38]
  6. ↑ In February 2019, Cobolli Gigli denied that it was a public plea bargain, and said: "The plea deal is an act of cowards and Juventus did not negotiate during Calciopoli, [we] simply accepted the sentence." [42]
  7. ↑ De Biase commented on the sentence of Francesco Saverio Borrelli, who spoke of a structured illicit, which was not part of the Code of Sports Justice, as a crime committed by Moggi and his associates. He said: "We're talking about a structured illicit. But what is it? It doesn't exist. They want to make it clear that there's something different, anomalous. But structured illicit, not at all. There's no sporting illicit. We can't talk about things that don't exist in the sports judicial system. I still haven't seen any proof of sporting illicit. Until now, what I see is the violation of Article 1 of the Sports Justice Code, which requires members to behave according to the principles of loyalty, correctness, and probity. But of what we have read to date, it doesn't prove to me that there was an attempt to alter a match." [26] About Borrelli's role, journalist Giorgio Bocca stated: "The appointment of Borrelli to direct the investigation into the great football scandal is the litmus test, the chemical reagent, the proof of truth, the fall of lies, the naked king of the Berlusconi people who 'don't give up', who don't tolerate returns to justice, who conceive democracy only as an alliance of the strongest and richest clans." [11] Calciopoli judge Piero Sandulli stated that the GEA World ruling dismantled the prosecution, and commented: "We punished the violation of internal rules in 2006. Basically, our sentence highlighted above all bad habits, not classic illicit acts. It had to be made clear that what was in the wiretapping is not to be done. It was an ethical condemnation. The criminal trial evaluates other things." [49]
  8. ↑ About the 2006 scudetto , Cobolli Gigli told Adnkronos in October 2010 that "it was won on the pitch by Juventus. President Andrea Agnelli is doing his job very well. If I had all the elements at my disposal in 2006, I probably could have said the same thing." [57] [58] In April 2011, asked about the ordinary trial in Naples, he replied: "The 2006 Scudetto must be removed [from Inter Milan]. After those interceptions there is no reason for it to remain on the Nerazzurri bulletin board. ... Juventus would do well to ask for the scudetti to be returned. They have been won on the field, the players have made great sacrifices to win them. But I don't think that happens." [59] In July 2011, about Guido Rossi's decision to award the 2006 Serie A title to third-placed Inter Milan, [60] he said: "It was a decision taken too hastily, I think everything is still open. Whatever happens, it will be a difficult solution to overcome but during my presidency I have nothing to reproach myself because after Serie B we managed to return to Serie A despite a heavy penalty, getting to play in two Champions Leagues. The credit must be attributed first of all to the players who decided to immerse themselves in a reality that was new to them, to coach Deschamps and to the club at the time." [61] About the statute of limitations, he said: "If we talk about the statute of limitations, it means that the times within which the decisions had to be taken have expired. I wonder, however, if these decisions could have been taken within the established times." [62]
  9. ↑ In November 2022, in response to an interview by former Inter Milan chairman Massimo Moratti, [64] Cobolli Gigli said: "He talked about everything, but one question was missing: 'Why in 2006 Inter Milan didn't appear in the Calciopoli trial, while 4 or 5 years later the Nerazzurri file appeared, for which the prosecutor Palazzi spoke of a serious sporting offence?' Everyone has forgotten it, I'm sorry, even angry about this matter: if Inter Milan had been in the sporting trial with Juventus, and had been accused, as happened only years later, of a 'serious sporting offence', they would have been a whole other story." [65] He added that "someone hid the binder, someone powerful because to hide something like this... But I didn't understand, however, why after 5 years they made it reappear. Perhaps to give Juventus a further moral slap, as if to say: 'When I wanted to hide something, I made it disappear. When everything was by now time-barred, here it is. The leagues were not to be awarded to anyone: at least there would have been two culprits, instead in Calciopoli there was only one sinner." [66]

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  13. ↑ Ingram, Sam (20 December 2021). "Calciopoli Scandal: Referee Designators As Desired Pawns". ZicoBall. Retrieved 24 January 2023. FIGC's actions in relegating Juventus and handing the title to Inter Milan were somewhat peculiar. Of course, Moggi and Juventus deserved punishment; that is not up for dispute. However, the severity of the ruling and the new location for the Scudetto was unprecedented and arguably should never have happened. The final ruling in the Calciopoli years later judged that Juventus had never breached article 6. As a result, the Serie A champions should never have encountered a shock 1–1 draw away to Rimini in the season's curtain-raiser. Nor should they have trounced Piacenza 4–0 in Turin or handed a 5–1 thrashing away to Arezzo in Tuscany. The findings stated that some club officials had violated article 6, but none had originated from Juventus. FIGC created a structured article violation with their decision-making. This means that instead of finding an article 6 breach, several article 1 violations were pieced together to create evidence damning to warrant relegation from Italy's top flight. Article 1 violations in Italian football usually command fines, bans, or points deductions, but certainly not relegation.
  14. ↑ "La videochat con Giovanni Cobolli Gigli". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 17 January 2007. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  15. ↑ "Videochat con Giovanni Cobolli Gigli". La Stampa (in Italian). 19 July 2007. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  16. ↑ "Cobolli Gigli, ex Juventus: 'Agnelli si è circondato di persone sbagliate. Al club è mancato Marotta'". Corriere dello Sport (in Italian). 23 January 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  17. ↑ "Montezemolo: 'Juve più simpatica'". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 24 October 2007. Retrieved 10 March 2023. 'Juventus paid a lot, perhaps more than all the other teams. However, this fact brought about a positive total change and this made them more likeable. The humility bath in Serie B, the struggles with Albinoleffe...' This is how Luca di Montezemolo replied to Cobolli Gigli who the other day had said that in order for Juventus to become great, they would have to treasure the Ferrari organization. 'The team – said Montezemolo – has temperament and is doing well and at the end of the season will have the advantage of being more fresh, given that they don't have to play in the Cup.'
  18. ↑ "Cobolli Gigli: 'Nel 2009 voglio una Grande Juve'". Sky Sport Italia (in Italian). 29 December 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  19. ↑ "Juve, Cobolli Gigli: 'Nessuna guerra con Ranieri'" (in Italian). 21 May 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
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  21. ↑ "Cobolli Gigli sogna scudetto alla Juve 'E Del Piero e Amauri in Nazionale'" (in Italian). RAI. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  22. ↑ "Cobolli Gigli: 'Juve, i miei consigli per Ferrero. Agnelli? Dimissioni 'spintanee', non spontanee'". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 29 November 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  23. ↑ "Cobolli Gigli: 'Tirare le orecchie ad Agnelli? Gli direi che ha sbagliato a circondarsi di certe persone'". Alfredo Pedullà (in Italian). 23 January 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  24. 1 2 "Juventus: Fiat, Calciopoli e CR7, che guerra tra Andrea Agnelli e John Ellkann". Affaritaliani.it (in Italian). 12 November 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  25. ↑ "Elkann: 'L'ingiustizia di questa sentenza è evidente, difenderemo la Juve con fermezza'". La Gazzetta dello Sport (in Italian). 24 January 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2023. In recent years, with Andrea Agnelli at the helm, Juventus have taken an anti-system position: outside the government of the Lega Serie A, outside the ECA (the association of European clubs which was chaired by Agnelli), in contrast with UEFA, and projected on the Superlega project. Now, the club is proposing to open a dialogue on reforms. 'I hope that together with the other teams and the government we can change football in our country, to build a sustainable and ambitious future ... . Juventus are not the problem, but they are and will always be part of the solution. Here it is in play the future of Serie A and of Italian football, which is becoming marginal and irrelevant.'
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cambiaghi, Emilio; Dent, Arthur (15 April 2010). Il processo illecito (PDF) (1st ed.). Stampa Indipendente. pp. 1–10, 47–57. Retrieved 24 January 2023– via Ju29ro.
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  28. ↑ "Elkann, Zaccone, Montezemolo: spiegate". Ju29ro (in Italian). 7 April 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  29. ↑ Coccia, Pasquale (18 January 2020). "Il contado tifa per la zebra". Il manifesto (in Italian). Retrieved 8 February 2023. De Luna: We consulted the company financial statements, and noted the escalation of the emoluments that Moggi, Giraudo, and Bettega received. We don't have certain elements to be able to say that at that moment there was an attempt to take over Juventus, but those figures are impressive. Furthermore, there are some anomalies of the Agnellis which leave the door open to this type of hypothesis. The Calciopoli investigation was born out of a Turin investigation by the prosecutor Guariniello on the Juventus doping case, [in which] the interceptions of Moggi's conversations with the referees emerge. Guariniello sends the files to the boss Maddalena, notes that there are no crimes from a criminal point of view, but perhaps from a sporting point of view. Maddalena keeps the files for three months, then sends them to the [Italian] Football Federation. This period lasts a little over a year. Do you really [want to believe] that Juve didn't know what was going on? I have the impression that the Agnelli family took advantage of this opportunity to stop an attempt to take over the Moggi-Giraudo-Bettega company.
  30. ↑ "L'avvocato Zaccone: 'Tifo Toro, ma ho difeso la Juve in Calciopoli. Mi hanno pagato bene...'". La Repubblica (in Italian). 19 September 2020. Retrieved 21 February 2023– via TuttoMercatoWeb.com.
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  34. ↑ "Juventus, Luciano Moggi scrive a Lapo Elkann: 'Chi sono i veri responsabili di Calciopoli'". Libero (in Italian). 14 May 2021. ISSN   1591-0423 . Retrieved 6 March 2023. It was enough to look at what happened in Portugal, where a top-flight team, relegated for ascertained collusion with (arrested) referees, was reinstated following the appeal made to the counterpart of the Italian TAR. For Juve it would have been even easier, because in the sporting trial no crime was ascertained and in the ordinary one the referees were all acquitted. The prosecutor had to resort to the 'anticipated crime' for something never committed or even thought of.
  35. ↑ "Calciopoli, Moggi risponde a Lapo Elkann tornando a parlare dello scandalo di 15 anni fa". MondoBiancoNero.com (in Italian). 14 May 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2023. 'Dear Lapo, my certainties about the perpetrators of this farce are known and always addressed to those who received the thanks of Blatter, president of Fifa at the time, for having Juve withdraw the appeal to the TAR which, if maintained, would have kept the club in Serie A.'
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  38. 1 2 Gregorace, Francesco (2 April 2014). "Calciopoli – Tifosi juventini contro Cobolli Gigli: se solo non avesse ritirato il ricorso..." CalcioWeb (in Italian). Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  39. ↑ "La Juve: 'Abbiamo fiducia nel ricorso'". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 15 July 2006. Retrieved 10 March 2023. The chairman of Juventus, Giovanni Cobolli Gigli ... declares himself confident: 'I am still convinced that we should stay in Serie A. The reasons do not justify such a severe penalty at all, because the reference is only to Article 1 of the Sports Justice Code and not in Article 6. A set of venial sins cannot be equivalent to a mortal sin.' 'I am convinced that the appeal will be accepted', he added ... when asked which penalty he would consider fair, he replied curtly: 'I would like to be in [Serie] B and that's it.' '... We are confident that with determination and will we will be able to reduce in the shortest possible time the great handicap that we have been assigned and go back to being successful and even more likeable than before.'
  40. ↑ "La bomba del TAR e chi l'ha disinnescata". Ju29ro (in Italian). 3 January 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2023. Everyone stigmatizes the change of course by waving Zaccone's answer to Ruperto, but with little correctness, because they use only a fragment of the answer, altering its complete meaning. Zaccone had replied: 'The sanction accepted, indeed suffered but acceptable, is the one proposed for the other clubs to which the same objections are made, even if in greater numbers than us. Therefore, Serie B with penalty points.' ... Giovanni Cobolli Gigli: 'This morning we sent the appeal to the prosecutors and by tomorrow it will be filed with the TAR which will examine it and will have to inform us of a date. A date that could be brought forward with respect to 6 September, for our good and that of all. We have already notified appeal to all interested parties.' ... It's a right, but above all a duty towards Juventus fans, who are 25% of all Italian fans. We are aware that we are living in a situation of relative tension, but we are not scared. [Remaining in Serie] A would be a satisfaction for the club, the fans, and the shareholders: it is a championship that belongs to us. I continue with absolute calm to explain that there has been an inequality of treatment between Juve and the other clubs. Furthermore, the Serie B [penalty would be] a difficult economic situation [that] would result in a much higher penalty than one that any other team could bear.' ... 'We have thirty days starting from 18 August and we have the right, given that the conciliation did not take place', and he recalled the outcome of the appeal by the former Juventus CEO Antonio Giraudo and the former managing director Luciano Moggi: 'There is no 'it is doubtful whether the TAR has declared itself competent to accept questions of this type, especially ours, therefore, which has a much greater weight.'
  41. ↑ Bocci, Alessandro (1 September 2006). "La Juve ritira il ricorso al Tar". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 10 March 2023. After four hours of discussion, in the elegant building on Corso Galileo Ferraris, in the heart of Turin, the moderate line recently promoted by President Cobolli Gigli won. Jean Claude Blanc, the managing director, the man who had advocated confrontation with the [Italian] Football Federation, has taken a step back by adapting to the majority. ... A small group of fans met outside the Juventus headquarters and targeted Cobolli Gigli and Blanc. 'You have ruined a hundred years of history', ... Then the words of coach Deschamps at the end of the Tim trophy at San Siro are striking: 'The players and I have some difficulty understanding, maybe we don't know everything, but we don't understand the reason for the appeal withdrawn. A decision had been made, then it changed, I expect explanations. What is certain is that we will fight all season', said the French coach with a controversial air. ... Indeed, there has been a change. But Federcalcio and Coni have not provided any precise guarantee to Juventus. 'There was no negotiation,' they said from via Allegri. Rossi, however, did not hide his satisfaction with the intention of the lost sheep returned to the fold to participate actively in the renewal and organization of football. Petrucci, on the other hand, thanked John Elkann, who followed the matter personally, and Montezemolo 'for the call to common sense and serenity, fully understood.'
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  43. ↑ Beha, Oliviero (7 February 2012). "Il 'caso Moggi' e le colpe della stampa: non fa inchieste, (di)pende dai verbali, non sa leggere le sentenze". Tiscali (in Italian). Archived from the original on 12 February 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2023. ... the motivations in 558 pages are summarized as follows. 1) Championships not altered (therefore championships unjustly taken away from Juve...), matches not fixed, referees not corrupted, investigations conducted incorrectly by the investigators of the Public Prosecutor's Office (interceptions of the Carabinieri which were even manipulated in the confrontation in the Chamber). 2) The SIM cards, the foreign telephone cards that Moggi has distributed to some referees and designators, would be proof of the attempt to alter and condition the system, even without the effective demonstration of the rigged result. 3) Moggi's attitude, like a real 'telephone' boss, is invasive even when he tries to influence the [Italian Football Federation] and the national team, see the phone calls with Carraro and Lippi. 4) That these phone calls and this 'mafia' or 'sub-mafia' promiscuity aimed at 'creating criminal associations' turned out to be common practice in the environment as is evident, does not acquit Moggi and C.: and therefore here is the sentence. ... Finally point 1), the so-called positive part of the motivations, that is, in fact everything is regular. And then the scandal of 'Scommettopoli' [the Italian football scandal of 2011] in which it's coming out that the 2010–2011 championship [won by Milan] as a whole with tricks is to be considered really and decidedly irregular? The Chief Prosecutor of Cremona, Di Martino, says so for now, while sports justice takes its time as always, but I fear that many will soon repeat it, unless everything is silenced. With all due respect to those who want the truth and think that Moggi has objectively become the 'scapegoat'. Does the framework of information that does not investigate, analyze, compare, and take sides out of ignorance or bias seem slightly clearer to you?
  44. ↑ Rossini, Claudio (5 March 2014). "Calciopoli e la verità di comodo". Blasting News (in Italian). Retrieved 21 February 2023. Juventus have been acquitted, the offending championships (2004/2005 and 2005/2006) have been declared regular, and the reasons for the conviction of Luciano Moggi are vague; mostly, they condemn his position, that he was in a position to commit a crime. In short, be careful to enter a shop without surveillance because even if you don't steal, you would have had the opportunity. And go on to explain to your friends that you're honest people after the morbid and pro-sales campaign of the newspapers. ... a company has been acquitted, and no one has heard of it, and whoever has heard of it, they don't accept it. The verdict of 2006, made in a hurry, was acceptable, that of Naples was not. The problem then lies not so much in vulgar journalism as in readers who accept the truths that are convenient. Juventus was, rightly or wrongly, the best justification for the failures of others, and it was in popular sentiment, as evidenced by the new controversies concerning 'The System.' But how? Wasn't the rotten erased? The referees since 2006 make mistakes in good faith, the word of Massimo Moratti (the only 'honest'). ... it isn't a question of tifo, but of a critical spirit, of the desire to deepen and not be satisfied with the headlines (as did Oliviero Beha, a well-known Viola [Fiorentina] fan, who, however, drew conclusions outside the chorus because, despite enjoying it as a tifoso, he suffered as a journalist. He wasn't satisfied and went into depth. He was one of the few).
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