The scandal that occurred in May 2006, better known as “Calciopoli” and its subsequent spin-off, “Calciopoli-bis”, shook the Italian football system to its foundations, undermining its very credibility in the eyes of sports fans and the public both in Italy and abroad. Often referred to as the “Moggi system”, referring to the main suspect, the then general manager of Juventus, the scandal represented the culmination of a progressive decline in Italian professional football and perhaps the example of a deeply rooted and much longer-standing distorted practice. While awaiting a history of Calciopoli free of the poisons and innuendo, moving away from the journalistic or biased interpretations that have characterized the existing literature, this contribution, although identifying the main trigger in the Juventus top management of the time, offers a broader reading of the scandal, in light of its developments and, more generally, of the intertwining economic, financial, and political interests that added to the purely sporting ones and that drove the interest groups that controlled the various teams involved.
University of Siena, Italy
Chapter Title
Per una storia della ‘lunga’ Calciopoli
Authors
Gianni Silei
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0887-1.06
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Il diritto sportivo tra autonomia e antinomie
Book Subtitle
Atti del seminario «Giornate senesi sullo sport» Siena, 22 maggio 2024
Editors
Roberto Borrello, Antonio Riviezzo
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
254
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0887-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0886-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0887-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0888-8
Series Title
Quaderni del Dipartimento di Scienze politiche e internazionali
Series ISSN
3035-5850
Series E-ISSN
3035-5664