Here we go again.
Just five years ago Italian sport was overwhelmed by the huge scandal of “Calciopoli” (not yet concluded) and today we are facing with another example of the awful national sport system.
Now we are still at the tip of the iceberg, but there are involved current and former footballers, club managers, betting shop clerks and many others.
Everything started when Marco Paoloni, a goalkeeper, decided to drug his teammates of Cremonese and to make crushing mistakes just to lose his fixed matches. Together with this gambling addicted there was a network of buyers and sellers, including important people like Giuseppe Signori (under house arrest), one of Italy’s leading strikers and top scorer in the ’90s.
We don’t know how far the investigation will arrive, but it is likely that italian calcio will be deeply upset. The italian Ministry of Interior summoned the president of the National Olympic Committee (which handle the entire sport system), SkyTV don’t want to pay anymore for the rights of fixed games, and the president of the Italian Football League said that: “all in all, what happens in football is not worse that our society…”.
So, the situation is confused, but we know for sure that in the end this system driven by money will protect itself again and again. In the teeth of millions supporters and athletes who truly loves sports and football.
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