First it was Luciano Moggi the former Juventus director who was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison for his role in the 2006 Calciopoli scandal, then former Roma midfielder Mancini was found guilty of sexual assault and sentenced to 2 years in prison, now Sevilla President Jose Maria del Nido becomes the latest big shot football executive to trade the plush setting of his office suite for a cold hard jail bed.

La procura di Napoli ha emesso la sentenza: Luciano Moggi deve scontare cinque anni di carcere. Brutte notizie anche per Della Valle, il dirigente degli arbitri per il Milan, Meani, e Claudio Lotito, Bergamo e Pairetto, che dovranno scontare rispettivamente tre anni ed otto mesi e un anno ed undici mesi.

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Sebastien Le Toux has won the Fair Play Award for the second year in a row. Bien fait!

Le Toux said of the award, "It may not be the most prestigious prize that people are asking about, but I'm very happy to get [this award] this year. It means I am always respectful on the field so I'm glad that the league and the referees know that.

The curtains were finally drawn on the Calciopoli trial yesterday when chief suspect Luciano Moggi was found guilty of sporting fraud and sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison.

The 74 year old was director of Juventus during the infamous 2005/2006 season when the club was demoted to Serie B for its involvement in match fixing scandals that saw them win the league that season.

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Mexico has dropped captain Rafael Marquez from the national team this week after his 3 game suspension in MLS after he threw a ball at Landon Donovan, started a brawl and then pretended he got hit in the face. Karma's a bitch.
And as many times as I have found the Mexican football federation to be poor in their judgement, they need praise for doing the right thing this time.

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In this week's review section, we congratulate Ronaldo, while former Juventus boss is jailed and Wigan defender causes a spitting row. You can listen to these and other stories on our weekly podcast and can find explanations of key vocabulary in bold below, or highlighted in blue.

While everyone else with the club was busy with the Derby d'Italia this weekend (and successfully so), a few poor souls in the tech department were busy with Photoshop and some age-predicting software in the case of Andrea Pirlo. The result is some Halloween images of their frightening employees of prominence.

This week has seen some scary rumours emerge. First it was reported that the club had revived its interest in Juventus striker Amauri. Then Lazio's new signing Dijbril Cisse was linked to the club before Carlos Tevez was mentioned as Milan target. But, Adriano Galliani has brushed aside such rumours.

Juventus all'esordio: arriva l'insidioso Parma Dopo l'inaugurazione, con relative polemiche per le assenze di Pavel Nedved e Luciano Moggi, del nuovo Juventus Stadium, i Bianconeri si preparano ad accogliere il Parma per l'esordio in campionato. Alessandro Matri sembra aver recuperato e sar regolarmente in campo.

Overview At the start of last season many did not expect Milan to challenge for the Scudetto. That was, at least, until the club secured the services of Robinho and Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the eleventh hour of the transfer window. Luciano Moggi, for all the criticism regularly aimed at him, spoke prophetically when he said that "thanks to him (Ibrahimovic), the title race will be between Milan and.

The Italian FA have somehow confirmed that they can not strip Internazionale Milano of their 2006 Scudetto. Now maybe it's because I'm looking at Italian football through my corruption-free tinted glasses, but I expected at least some action to me taken. The FIGC's "executive committee" met in Rome today, and the decision was confirmed.

Gazzetta dello Sport Marotta: "I'll construct a quality Juve" Coppola is Torino's, Meggiorini almost Hamsik: Yes, I want a big club Inter: Banega or Alvarez Destro to Siena: It's done Chievo sign Hetemaj Novara: Now Garcia emerges Tuttosport Waiting for Rossi Juve get to work at Bardonecchia.

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Attendance at New England v Toronto game on Wednesday night in Foxborough MA was 6,680! The Revs now officially have the lamest ownership group in all of MLS. They should be embarrassed to have so few at their games. Shame on them. The fans, players, and staff all deserve better than the support given to them by the Krafts.

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Is Carlos Ruiz heading back to his former club Puebla FC? Two articles on the the Spanish language website periodicodigital.com found by the Brotherly Game say he is. The first article, published on June 1, says "it is known from a good source that Carlos 'El Pescadito' Ruiz will return to play with La Franja [Puebla].

Former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi and director Antonio Giraudo have been given life time bans from football for their part in the 2006 match fixing scandal which seen Juve demoted to Serie B and stripped of their 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles.

Luciano Moggi, ex Direttore generale della Juventus, Antonio Giraudo, ex Amministratore Delegato bianconero e Innocenzo Mazzini, ex Vicepresidente Figc, sono stati radiati. La disciplinare della Federcalcio accoglie dunque la richiesta del procuratore federale e adotta tale provvedimento nei confronti dei tre personaggi, squalificati per 5 anni in seguito ai fatti di Calciopoli (scandalo che ha [.

Luciano Moggi a luglio sar calcisticamente libero di fare quello che vuole, anche se in realt non ha mai smesso in questi cinque anni di squalifica di fare da consulente (o di millantare di esserlo, magari grazie ad articoli e servizi di suoi giornalisti) ad amici e quasi-amici. Basti pensare al pandemonio scatenato per qualche [.

This sounds more like spoon-feeding some of the internet's finer football satire sites, and if Sepp's legacy is overwhelmingly known for one thing, it will be providing the internet and blogdom for an incessant stream of content.

But yes, FIFA will be creating an "independent" anti-corruption committee.