Who has been banned in England from Europe?
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Who has been banned in England from Europe?
Juventus aren't involved in this scandal... And not fair to call Serie A shameful, when every league has a lot of dark history.
Italy's Euro 2012 camp hit by dawn police raid
Officers investigating match-fixing scandal search room of defender Domenico Criscito days before championships start
Journalists outside Italy's training camp in Tuscany. Elsewhere, police arrested 19 people, among them Lazio captain Stefano
Mauri, and placed Juventus manager Antonio Conte under investigation. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Officers investigating match-fixing scandal search room of defender Domenico Criscito days before championships start
Email- Tom Kington in Rome
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 May 2012 10.31 BST
Journalists outside Italy's training camp in Tuscany. Elsewhere, police arrested 19 people, among them Lazio captain Stefano
Mauri, and placed Juventus manager Antonio Conte under investigation. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Domenico Criscito. Photograph: AFP/GettyPolice officers swooped on the Italian national football team's training camp at dawn on Monday to search the room of defender Domenico Criscito, and inform him he is being investigated in a widening match-fixing scandal.At the same time as the visit, which came just days before the start of the European football championships, police arrested 19 people, including 11 players, among them Stefano Mauri, the captain of leading Serie A side Lazio, and placed Antonio Conte, the manager of champions Juventus, under investigation.Officers arrived at the Italian team's camp at Coverciano in Tuscany at 6.40am to tell former Genoa defender Domenico Criscito he would face questions in the investigation into gambling on fixed results, which has already seen one team docked points and players handed lengthy suspensions."You can imagine the atmosphere here, everyone knows everyone and people are not exactly calm," one official at the camp told the Guardian. Of the 32 players invited to Coverciano, around 27 were due to be named on Monday on a provisional list for championships by team manager Cesare Prandelli, with the final list of 23 to be unveilde on Tuesday. Criscito, who plays for Zenit St Petersburg, was expected to make the cut.Magistrates in Cremona who are running the investigation have focused previously mainly on Serie B matches, but Monday's operation revealed that investigators now have the top division in their sights.Among those arrested were Omar Milanetto, the former captain of Genoa, and Sampdoria striker Christian Bertani, as well as fixers who allegedly paid off players to lose games or pre-arrange the number of goals to be scored. The investigation of JConte concerns his time at Siena.
Italian media reported that Serie A games last season under suspicion involved Napoli, Sampdoria, Brescia, Bari, Lecce, Palermo, Lazio and Genoa.La Repubblica reported on Monday that investigators were interested in a meeting held in May 2011 in a Genoa restaurant by Genoa players Giuseppe Sculli and Domenico Criscito, two members of Genoa's Ultra fan groups and a known Bosnian criminal.Investigators believe that much of the match-rigging was organised by an eastern European gang known as The Gypsies, which allegedly paid out thousands of euros to players.Cremona magistrates have been issuing arrest warrants since last year as they work through their investigation, dubbed Last Bet. They are also passing their conclusions to Italy's football federation, which is referring players to its own sporting tribunal, which is handing down sporting convictions well ahead of pending criminal trials.
The federation will start a massive trial on 31 May involving 22 clubs, 52 players and 33 matches, mostly played in Italy's Serie B in recent seasons.Magistrates in Bari and Naples are meanwhile mounting their own investigations into match fixing.Italian football was rocked in 2006 by the Calciopoli match-influencing investigation, which resulted in relegation for Juventus and the stripping of two of its league titles. A number of players playing for team tainted by the scandal were preparing for World Cup duty as the news broke, but went on to lift the cup."I would say without doubt that is devastating news," said Giovanni Trapatoni, the Italian manager of the Irish national team. "What could be the Italian team's reaction? On one side it is clear that news like this can bring people down, but it could also push them to show the clean face of football," he said. "As someone who has been abroad for years, I have to say we are creating an ugly image for our football."
Italian media reported that Serie A games last season under suspicion involved Napoli, Sampdoria, Brescia, Bari, Lecce, Palermo, Lazio and Genoa.La Repubblica reported on Monday that investigators were interested in a meeting held in May 2011 in a Genoa restaurant by Genoa players Giuseppe Sculli and Domenico Criscito, two members of Genoa's Ultra fan groups and a known Bosnian criminal.Investigators believe that much of the match-rigging was organised by an eastern European gang known as The Gypsies, which allegedly paid out thousands of euros to players.Cremona magistrates have been issuing arrest warrants since last year as they work through their investigation, dubbed Last Bet. They are also passing their conclusions to Italy's football federation, which is referring players to its own sporting tribunal, which is handing down sporting convictions well ahead of pending criminal trials.
The federation will start a massive trial on 31 May involving 22 clubs, 52 players and 33 matches, mostly played in Italy's Serie B in recent seasons.Magistrates in Bari and Naples are meanwhile mounting their own investigations into match fixing.Italian football was rocked in 2006 by the Calciopoli match-influencing investigation, which resulted in relegation for Juventus and the stripping of two of its league titles. A number of players playing for team tainted by the scandal were preparing for World Cup duty as the news broke, but went on to lift the cup."I would say without doubt that is devastating news," said Giovanni Trapatoni, the Italian manager of the Irish national team. "What could be the Italian team's reaction? On one side it is clear that news like this can bring people down, but it could also push them to show the clean face of football," he said. "As someone who has been abroad for years, I have to say we are creating an ugly image for our football."
English football was banned from european competitions in the 80's for 5 years due to the liverpool and Juventus stadium disaster in heysel.
Heysel Stadium disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Indeed, its pretty childish to do this whole "your league is worse than our league stuff" Everyone has good and bad history.
Italy's Euro 2012 camp hit by dawn police raid
Officers investigating match-fixing scandal search room of defender Domenico Criscito days before championships start
- Tom Kington in Rome
- guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 May 2012 10.31 BST
Journalists outside Italy's training camp in Tuscany. Elsewhere, police arrested 19 people, among them Lazio captain Stefano
Mauri, and placed Juventus manager Antonio Conte under investigation. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Domenico Criscito. Photograph: AFP/GettyPolice officers swooped on the Italian national football team's training camp at dawn on Monday to search the room of defender Domenico Criscito, and inform him he is being investigated in a widening match-fixing scandal.At the same time as the visit, which came just days before the start of the European football championships, police arrested 19 people, including 11 players, among them Stefano Mauri, the captain of leading Serie A side Lazio, and placed Antonio Conte, the manager of champions Juventus, under investigation.Officers arrived at the Italian team's camp at Coverciano in Tuscany at 6.40am to tell former Genoa defender Domenico Criscito he would face questions in the investigation into gambling on fixed results, which has already seen one team docked points and players handed lengthy suspensions."You can imagine the atmosphere here, everyone knows everyone and people are not exactly calm," one official at the camp told the Guardian. Of the 32 players invited to Coverciano, around 27 were due to be named on Monday on a provisional list for championships by team manager Cesare Prandelli, with the final list of 23 to be unveilde on Tuesday. Criscito, who plays for Zenit St Petersburg, was expected to make the cut.Magistrates in Cremona who are running the investigation have focused previously mainly on Serie B matches, but Monday's operation revealed that investigators now have the top division in their sights.Among those arrested were Omar Milanetto, the former captain of Genoa, and Sampdoria striker Christian Bertani, as well as fixers who allegedly paid off players to lose games or pre-arrange the number of goals to be scored. The investigation of JConte concerns his time at Siena.
Italian media reported that Serie A games last season under suspicion involved Napoli, Sampdoria, Brescia, Bari, Lecce, Palermo, Lazio and Genoa.La Repubblica reported on Monday that investigators were interested in a meeting held in May 2011 in a Genoa restaurant by Genoa players Giuseppe Sculli and Domenico Criscito, two members of Genoa's Ultra fan groups and a known Bosnian criminal.Investigators believe that much of the match-rigging was organised by an eastern European gang known as The Gypsies, which allegedly paid out thousands of euros to players.Cremona magistrates have been issuing arrest warrants since last year as they work through their investigation, dubbed Last Bet. They are also passing their conclusions to Italy's football federation, which is referring players to its own sporting tribunal, which is handing down sporting convictions well ahead of pending criminal trials.
The federation will start a massive trial on 31 May involving 22 clubs, 52 players and 33 matches, mostly played in Italy's Serie B in recent seasons.Magistrates in Bari and Naples are meanwhile mounting their own investigations into match fixing.Italian football was rocked in 2006 by the Calciopoli match-influencing investigation, which resulted in relegation for Juventus and the stripping of two of its league titles. A number of players playing for team tainted by the scandal were preparing for World Cup duty as the news broke, but went on to lift the cup."I would say without doubt that is devastating news," said Giovanni Trapatoni, the Italian manager of the Irish national team. "What could be the Italian team's reaction? On one side it is clear that news like this can bring people down, but it could also push them to show the clean face of football," he said. "As someone who has been abroad for years, I have to say we are creating an ugly image for our football."
"The agent of Domenico Criscito is adamant that the player has done nothing wrong after his room at Italy’s Coverciano training base was searched by police.
The Zenit St Petersburg player, formerly of Genoa, was targeted by the authorities as their probe into the betting match fixing scandal gathers pace.
“He’s very calm even if surprised by what has happened,” representative AndreaD’Amico told Sky Sport Italia. “He’s an honest guy.
“All that he did was take part in a meeting with some Genoa fans.”
Criscito’s place at Euro 2012 is now in some doubt given that boss CesarePrandelli was set to name his 23-man squad later today.
“On a sporting level, he won’t be affected by this,” D’Amico continued. “After all, he knows that he has done nothing wrong and he’s only concentrating on working hard.”
Criscito didn’t take part in Azzurri training this morning.
As part of the same probe, police searched the home of Juventus boss AntonioConte. According to ANSA, the tactician was out of town at the time of the raid. He has now returned to his residence.
Reports suggest that Prandelli may now cut his 32-man squad to 25 today, before naming his final 23 tomorrow."
Italian lower leagues are rife with corruption...
It seems some people are determined to destroy the name of Italian football, just for their own greed.
Which is a huge shame seeing as the league is appearing to grow in strength at long last after calciopoli.
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You are very ignorant, and were very quick to judge.
Getting a bit defensive? Anyone has a right to think Juventus are involved after they have been before, and what you said reason for English football being out of Europe is not the same as this.
In fact it was much much worse, so as said before don't judge...
I can judge what I want, it is an opinion anyway. Juventus have been involved in match fixing scandals before, even their fans are ashamed of the club for what it has done, that is why I would not put it past them to be involved again.
Juve have paid their price for it. End of story.
When their coach Conte has been proven innocent in the investigations it will be, you're right.
Conti's actions are investigated yes, but not when he was Juve coach. It was before he joined Juve so it has nothing to do with them.
man, this is really taking the ****, isn't. Italian hits its again. sigh.
No, no juventus involved, its Conte back in this Siena management days, and Crisitco when he was at Genoa. Crisitco has also been droppped by Prandelli to this incident.
No, no juventus involved, its Conte back in this Siena management days, and Crisitco when he was at Genoa. Crisitco has also been droppped by Prandelli to this incident.
Yep he is a Roma favorite. I want either Zeman or Montella for Roma.
And please stop judging the Italian League. Obviously only the Italian police is doing its job in clearing the league with some extreme measures, like braking up in the national team hotel before the EU Cup. As Daniele De Rossi said, it is even worse than in Callcopolli. In fact I am happy about all this, because in the end we will have the only clean football played in Italy. And please do not tell me there are not fixed matches in the other leagues... Obviously only the Italians want to watch good football.
And please stop judging the Italian League. Obviously only the Italian police is doing its job in clearing the league with some extreme measures, like braking up in the national team hotel before the EU Cup. As Daniele De Rossi said, it is even worse than in Callcopolli. In fact I am happy about all this, because in the end we will have the only clean football played in Italy. And please do not tell me there are not fixed matches in the other leagues... Obviously only the Italians want to watch good football.