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I became a public prosecutor

because I believe in justice and truth.

This is a very tough city.

Every neighborhood in Naples is controlled by the Camorra,

a group like the Mafia.

For a long time, I had a security team to prevent my murder.

In 2003, Camorra informants told us

that there was something corrupt

at the very highest levels of Italian football.

Everybody knows Italy lives for football.

But we never imagined that this investigation

would lead to one of the biggest ever scandals in Italy.

The storm engulfing Italian Football is growing.

Goal! Incredible!

These shocking wiretaps are like an earthquake.

Managers and officials could end up in jail.

The world of football is poisoned.

Juventus, champions of Italy.

This is seismic.

The biggest scandal in the history of Italian football.

That summer, witnesses told us

about a group we'd never heard of before...

The Roman Posse.

The Roman Posse was a mysterious and secret group of powerful referees

who were influencing football matches at the highest level,

that is the Serie A league.

Power is fascinating. Power captivates and corrupts.

Referees have enormous power.

If that power is used illegally,

it can shape the outcome of a game,

or even an entire season.

Our witnesses told us that the Roman Posse

was somehow connected to

the most important club in Italy, Juventus.

Juventus are the most successful club in Italy.

And have been, historically, going all the way back to the 1950s.

In 2004, Juventus had 27 Serie A titles to their name,

which is pretty incredible, because that's almost as many

as the next two teams combined.

The passion, the love... like the love for your wife.

I was born in a black and white shirt.

Juventus are owned by the Agnelli family.

They are like the Kennedys.

This is a family that contributed

five percent of the annual GDP of Italy.

They own Fiat, they own Ferrari,

they have a media empire.

The Agnelli family is the closest thing that we have in Italy to a royal family.

It's hugely, hugely powerful.

I knew the investigation would be really difficult

because football is a very important part of this country's economy.

It was an investigation into power.

You can't do this type of investigation alone.

The first thing I did was call Rome's Military police.

I got a call from Public Prosecutor Narducci,

and I told him straight away

this is really serious.

We got on straight away.

We smoked a lot together.

Uh, I was a cigar smoker, and he smoked cigarettes.

Our goal was to find out everything about the Roman Posse.

Who was part of it? What were they up to?

We needed to reach the heart of the system.

It was going to be difficult to find evidence of crimes.

We didn't have anyone on the inside, an informer.

So, we got a warrant to tap their phones.

We needed to wiretap the two people in charge of the Referees' Association.

Paolo Bergamo and Pierluigi Pairetto.

We also wiretapped the sporting director of Juventus...

who had enormous power.

His name was Luciano Moggi.

Luciano Moggi was seen

as this very clever wheeler-dealer director of football.

He grew from out of nothing, really.

He comes from this poor, rural hamlet.

He desperately wants to be in football,

but has to pay the bills, so he gets a job with the railway

which allows him to watch games.

He becomes an exceptional scout who had a real eye for talent.

I'm not bragging, but even when I worked on the railways,

I was a leader. My dad taught me the value of hard work.

He built himself working for various different clubs...

before reaching what was considered the top,

being a sporting director of Juventus Football Club.

He brings in these tremendous players:

Zinedine Zidane, Pavel Nedvěd,

"Gigi" Buffon.

So, with all the glamour and the money coming in to the Italian game,

Moggi very much was the architect behind the scenes.

What don't you like about football?

Losing.

We set up a listening room in central Rome.

It was a small team. Reliable, very close.

The investigation needed to be top secret.

Any leak would completely risk

compromising it.

I'm coming back to Turin tomorrow.

I've got a gift for you.

You shouldn't have!

- Don't bust my balls. - Okay, if you insist.

Out of all the people we were wiretapping,

Luciano Moggi was the one we heard speaking the most.

He talked day and night.

Greatest Luciano, how are you?

I'm fine, thanks.

I see you on the news. I see you on TV. Don't get in trouble.

The officer in charge of listening said,

"Look, Commander, I can't keep up

because there are so many calls!"

In the summer of 2004, Juventus had a problem.

The previous season, it ended up as a bit of a disaster.

A.C. Milan had won the Serie A title.

They were Juventus' biggest rivals.

Milan were owned by Silvio Berlusconi.

He was the Prime Minister of Italy, at the time.

So, there was this great rivalry,

because it was Berlusconi versus the Agnellis.

Moggi almost got run over!

Someone wants to take him out.

There's Umberto Agnelli.

The screws were turned on Moggi.

He needed to do something bold to regain the upper hand.

He signed Zlatan Ibrahimović, one of the great young talents in Europe.

And Moggi really managed the greatest coup of all,

by getting the best manager at the time, Fabio Capello.

All the other teams should be scared.

It's difficult to win all the time, but we're going to try.

The Serie A season begins with victories.

Zlatan Ibrahimović was in his debut.

And then Juventus go to Sampdoria.

Should be a great night, this.

Potentially tricky away game.

Listen to these Sampdoria fans.

And this is Mauro Germán Camoranesi.

Strong deep by Camoranesi.

Early in the first half there's a penalty awarded to Juventus.

I think he must've given a penalty here, Dondarini.

It's a yellow card for Falcone for complaining.

From my point of view, it's a referee mistake.

From the replays, it appears that if a foul is committed,

it's committed by a Juve player.

The Sampdoria players are absolutely furious.

Sampdoria collapsed after that.

Great cut by Ibrahimović, instant impact.

Hit by Trezeguet!

It's a three-nil victory for Juventus.

Flachi's furious, but this is all down to the referee.

The losing team always feels hard done by. It's the nature of football.

But Juventus had won, three-nil, and the referee was just doing his job.

A referee has a lot of power over a game.

Football is, by its very nature, a low-scoring sport.

And so, individual decisions have an out-sized influence.

Juventus had this reputation of always getting favorable decisions,

and this had been something that was spoken about,

it was a conspiracy theory.

I'll just say this:

Juventus does everything by the book.

In Italy, everyone hates winners.

Juventus has never cheated. Maybe others do.

Nobody in Italy could have imagined

that such a big investigation

into football was taking place.

But to start with, there wasn't anything incriminating.

We needed concrete proof

that the referees were being pressured.

By November, everything was going smoothly

for Juventus.

They won eight of their nine matches,

and they were looking like the team to beat.

Milan was in second place.

Juventus are fine. They have an away match against Reggina.

A small club. Most people forecast an easy win for Juventus.

The match is starting.

How many will Juve score tonight?

Reggina attacking. Ball played in.

Early on in the match, Reggina take the lead.

Incredible goal!

But Zlatan Ibrahimović immediately equalized.

Goal! Juventus has equalized.

But then, long-range free kick from Zamboni.

Zamboni scores!

Juventus are angry. Right? This is not supposed to happen.

Ibrahimović...

Ibrahimović gets the ball into the back of the net.

Wait! There's been a foul.

But it's ruled out because of a foul.

Only two minutes left. Juve's attacking.

Goal!

They finally get the goal.

But then, there's this very dramatic moment...

Reggina are furious.

...where you see the referee, Gianluca Paparesta,

going over to speak to the assistant referee, Aniello Di Mauro.

It all comes down to this moment.

Paparesta rules out the goal. It's offside!

When you see something and you're certain,

you must decide immediately.

I didn't stop to think it was the last minute of a match

in which Juventus was losing, otherwise you become biased.

You must referee.

It was the correct call.

However, it's also a very marginal decision.

Incredible end to the game!

The tension was obvious.

Luciano Moggi came into the changing room to complain.

He said it was shameful, absurd to rule out those goals.

As soon as the Reggina-Juventus match was over,

Moggi made lots of calls.

He was furious.

Look, two goals disallowed. A penalty, scandalous!

Yes, I saw. It's a scandal.

We listened to itlive.

I locked the referee in the dressing room

- and took the keys with me to the airport. - Yeah, no way!

We looked at each other,

"What the hell, shit."

"Play it again, let me hear it again."

It's true. I locked him in and took the key away.

Now they'll have to kick the door down.

A football club director

can get as mad as they like.

What they can't do is to approach a referee

and threaten him or insult him,

because this is strictly forbidden.

For me, Paparesta is a piece of shit.

He has to be stopped. Both the assistants, too.

I thought, he'd let off steam and that would be the end of it.

But it didn't end there.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Biscardi trial."

♪ Biscardi, oley, oley ♪

♪ Let's celebrate ♪

♪ Biscardi, oley, oley ♪

♪ Let's prosecute ♪

Aldo Biscardi created a TV program

called Il Processo, The Trial.

It was a very influential television program.

Thank you, good evening.

Moggi was aware that controlling public opinion was crucial.

Aldo Biscardi was a close friend.

I want Paparesta suspended and his linesman.

They were shit in this match. Now they must be punished.

Yes, why not take back his license?

...The Trial. Thank you.

So, on Monday night we tuned in.

Thank you. Thank you.

We wanted to see whether Biscardi would follow

the directions from Luciano Moggi.

Yet again, a refereeing scandal.

The referees are making mistakes. It must be stopped!

It made me very angry. My career was at stake.

- Paparesta's license should be taken away. - Or suspended.

Then take away his license!

Until all this happened, I was happy to referee.

I liked it. I traveled the world.

I couldn't wait for my son to grow up so that I could bring him with me.

Gianluca Paparesta was suspended

by the Italian Referees' Association for two games.

When he came back, he refereed a lower division game.

MOGGI SAYS, "THAT REFEREE SHOULD BE REPLACED"

I think a lot of referees saw that and were like,

"All right, he's been sent a message."

It saddens me

that I was punished by the Referees' Association.

And his linesman, Aniello Di Mauro, had an even worse fate.

We intercepted a call to him

from the Head of the Referees' Assocation, Paolo Bergamo.

Listen, this was a refereeing mistake.

As you know, Paparesta went to Serie B. There will always be repercussions.

No, Paolo, I'm sorry.

You have to believe me.

The only thing I was thinking about was that it was offside.

I swear on my children!

You have to believe me. You're humiliating me!

I feel deep compassion for him. He did his job, he raised the flag.

Their power was so strong, so unchecked,

that they even humiliated people, even making them cry.

When referees weren't on their side,

like Paparesta, the direction was: "Butcher them."

This is exactly what we were trying to prove.

The Referees' Association was being influenced by Moggi.

I work in the Sport section of la Repubblica.

My boss thought I was a bit of a pain in the ass,

because I loved to shed light on things that were hidden.

I dealt with the dark side of football.

I thought that Luciano Moggi was very interesting.

He was extremely powerful.

I read everything that had been written about him.

Everywhere Moggi had been, there were scandals.

Supplying prostitutes. This is the accusation leveled against

the ex-director of Torino FC, Luciano Moggi.

The women were asked

to keep the referees happy before three games.

Moggi completely denies this.

He'd never been found guilty of anything.

He's a man who was always one step ahead.

I started looking for sources,

but Juventus is the most important team in Italy.

To attack them, you must be absolutely certain of the facts.

If you miss a shot at Luciano Moggi, you won't get a second chance.

After Reggina, Juventus were winning most of their matches.

But Milan had cut Juve's lead to four points.

Around then we ran into a problem.

It had the potential to derail the whole investigation.

We heard Luciano Moggi talking with Paolo Bergamo.

I've had some issues.

I want to talk about it on the other phone.

Okay.

But Moggi's phone call didn't happen. We didn't have that conversation recorded,

even though all Moggi's mobile phones were bugged.

Both mobile and landlines.

It drives you crazy.

Where the hell were they talking?

I'm on the wrong phone, wait a second.

I'll send you a text on the other phone.

They must have a system for talking to each other secretly.

Get two SIM cards.

I got them.

Two anonymous SIM cards.

We realized that this group had their most secret calls

using secret burner phones.

We'd only ever seen this before with organized crime gangs.

Maybe they'd been tipped off about the investigation.

Juventus was about to play a very important match against Milan,

but we didn't hear any phone calls about that match.

We were left in total darkness. Total darkness.

This championship is already

a two-horse race for the title between Juventus and Milan.

Juventus are top of the league,

but their lead is just four points.

If Milan won the match, then it would blow the title race wide open.

These are two strong, determined teams.

Milan and Juventus, the moment of truth.

There weren't many chances, it was a close game,

but there were two big decisions that go against Milan.

That's a pull from Zebina.

Certainly was, yeah, and I think, uh,

if the referee had spotted that, we could well be looking at a penalty.

Now, that should have been a penalty straight away, to Milan, but it wasn't.

Late on, Kakáis fouled, but stays on his feet,

has the ball, is clear on goal.

- The whistle's gone... - A poor decision.

It's held them up, hasn't it? There was a clear advantage for Milan.

They were absolutely furious, because it was just bad refereeing.

So frustrating, that.

Especially with chances at a premium, a real opportunity for Kaká.

It ended nil-nil, but Milan should have won that match.

Juventus went into the new year at the top of the table.

Wait a second, he's on the phone.

We were halfway through the season,

but we still didn't have enough evidence against Moggi,

because they were using burner phones.

So, we got the team started on video surveillance

to film the people he met.

He's coming on foot?

At the top of the road?

Moggi was meeting members

of the football federation,

financiers and journalists.

We were shocked to find out that he was

driven around by police officers.

This gave us an idea of the extent

of Luciano Moggi's power.

Then, out of the blue, we catch Moggi on wiretap

speaking to referee administrator, Paolo Bergamo.

- Hello? - I'm on the house number.

Moggi slips up and uses a burner phone

to speak on a wire-tapped number.

Thank God even the smartest people make mistakes.

I'll tell you what I've written.

Okay, I've done Juventus, Udinese, Reginna, Milan.

Yes.

Bergamo is in charge of the draw for selecting referees.

And these are the referees I've put in this grid.

I've got Bertini, Rodomonti and Racalbuto.

This grid works for me.

In Italy, they would have a draw to assign the referee

and they'd take all the matches, they split them into tiers,

and then they have a draw.

The system is designed to make sure that it's extremely difficult for a club

to influence what referee gets assigned to their match.

It takes place on a Friday morning in Rome.

ITALIAN FOOTBALL FEDERATION

Bergamo and Moggi spoke on Tuesday saying,

"This referee here, that one there. No, change it around."

"Bertini is fine for me," that is for Moggi.

So, we really wanted to find out what would happen.

On Friday, we were completely shocked.

Rodomonti.

We went to check. To our surprise, it was that list.

The same list that Moggi had given a few days earlier.

Bertini.

Either Luciano Moggi was one of the most extraordinary clairvoyants in history,

uh, or something else was going on.

We thought that the referee selection

was entirely arranged by Moggi and the referee administrator.

It was disturbing.

For us, this was one of the most important pieces of evidence

to prove that we were dealing with an organized crime group.

Moggi's secret system wasn't a myth. It was absolutely real.

2005 starts with Juventus actually losing some ground.

That meant that they lost their position

at the top of the table to Milan.

This made for a very exciting title race.

Everybody believes it's going down to the wire.

- Hi. - Gigi.

What fucking referee are you sending us?

Once we realized that Luciano Moggi

was manipulating the selection of referees,

a whole different world opened up before us.

We realized it was even more complex than we thought.

Their work was so sophisticated it didn't leave anything to chance.

Moggi was trying to influence games that had nothing to do with Juventus.

We didn't understand why.

For the Fiorentina vs Bologna game,

I need the yellow cards to do their work.

Luciano Moggi clearly says, "Go ahead with the yellow cards."

When you accumulate a certain number of yellow cards,

you get an automatic one or two match ban.

The referee is Massimo De Santis,

and he ends up booking three Bologna players,

but crucially, three of those players were, at the time,

one yellow card away from a suspension.

The next match is against Juventus.

De Santis has done the perfect crime.

All three Bologna players suspended.

Yes, thank goodness.

When Juventus played Bologna,

who had three key players suspended,

Bologna lost.

It was a very sophisticated system.

Deadly.

By now, we had a clear idea of the three pillars of Moggi's system:

Choosing referees he wants...

punishing referees who were against him...

and getting referees to suspend players from teams about to play Juventus.

Thanks to the Moggi system, at the end of the championship,

Juventus are close to winning the League.

It was the end of the season, and Juventus and Milan

were neck and neck.

So, it all came down to this big match in Milan.

We haven't seen a battle like this for years.

With the two teams neck and neck, this game is basically a final.

Whoever won that match would effectively win the title.

This is going out to 167 countries.

It's gonna be a great match. Pure football.

May the best team win.

There was tremendous hype going into it,

tremendous tension.

Whoever wins this will be champions.

Collina was chosen as referee. He was a top referee. He was impartial.

We knew that Luciano Moggi didn't want Collina.

Good evening.

Evening, Luciano. I hear you're pissed off about the referees.

No, the pitch is our only friend.

If we win, we win.

The battle of the giants couldn't be influenced by Moggi.

The owner of Milan was Berlusconi.

With his media power and economic might,

no other referee would have taken on the responsibility.

Because the match was so big.

Del Piero delivers a pinpoint cross,

and David Trezeguet was there to meet it.

David Trezeguet! One-nil!

What a cross from Del Piero!

The rest of the match Milan strained forward, trying to get an edge.

Inzaghi!

There's Buffon. Inzaghi hits the post!

The match is over! Juventus won, and probably the championship, too.

They're three points ahead of Milan now.

Winning that match meant winning the title.

Del Piero lifts the trophy.

They're champions of Italy for the 28th time.

Moggi's vindicated.

He, once again, was dominating Serie A.

It was amazing.

It was like having a baby.

I came back home with tears in my eyes.

Everyone was celebrating, but only we knew that it was a deception.

It was a great fraud.

As a fan, I thought it was a dirty result.

It's fake. It's like doping. What sort of achievement is that?

We had collected about 171,000 phone calls.

It was an enormous task to go through them all.

At that point, we had enough evidence

to take them to court.

Everything had to remain completely confidential

until we were ready to issue arrest warrants.

It's 6:00 p.m., I'm in the newsroom.

I get a phone call from a close friend.

He says, "Corrado, I have some documents."

The documents came from the police. They arrived from a confidential source.

Okay. See you later.

We discovered it was about Luciano Moggi and the last Serie A football seasons.

We were all a bit shocked,

because we realized we had a massive story.

The charges included organized crime,

which was unheard of in sports. It's normally only for Mafia cases.

The office was electrified, but we were a bit worried.

It was very late. To re-do the whole newspaper,

at that time, is a big deal.

The first edition, in those years, closed at 11:00 p.m.

So, we had three or four hours to read, maybe an hour to write.

But we work better under pressure, and amazingly, we made it happen.

Italian football exploded.

MASSIVE SCANDAL!

Breaking news. Leaked wiretaps name famous Italian football executives.

The disaster at Juventus is all over the front pages.

"Juve in chaos."

Good evening from Rai Sport.

The storm engulfing Italian Football is growing.

Luciano Moggi is the central figure

in Italy's match-fixing scandal.

Police believe their phone taps have revealed a system of corruption

at the highest level.

The scandal was seismic.

Originally, they called it Moggopoli, after Moggi.

Then it became Calciopoli,

effectively the equivalent of "Footballgate."

It was the biggest ever football scandal.

Moggi is also accused of kidnapping.

They are accused of locking the referee, Paparesta, in the changing rooms.

MOGGI ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING

That someone could go as far as kidnapping a referee was unbelievable.

It sounded like a Mexican Narcos story.

Aldo Biscardi has stepped down

after decades presenting one of Italy's longest-running TV shows.

The so-called "Moggi system"

is summarized in 2,400 pages,

and there are also 10,000 wiretaps and video surveillance.

I wasn't angry, I was furious.

It caused huge, irreparable damage to our investigation.

We'd never had a leak before.

Never.

All of our work was at risk,

and for the first time, Luciano Moggi knew we were onto him.

- Here we are. - Here we are.

With that cigar, you look like a boss.

- And... - A phony one.

Why did they call you Lucky Luciano?

They didn't call meLucky Luciano, they called me Lucky.

But luck doesn't just happen. You have to look for it.

The first ten days of the scandal were awful

because TV, radio, newspapers,

all repeating, "Scandal in football" all the time.

I've never taken advantage of anyone.

To be accused of being a thief, it hurt me.

I grew up in poverty.

My dad worked as a lumberjack.

I've always had something inside that pushed me

and told me, "Go. Go on."

And so I pursued my dream, my passion for football.

Football is a pure sport in which the best players win.

If we won seven championships, I think that's a big achievement.

All the players I signed, from Zidane to Pavel Nedved,

to Cannavaro, they were the right ones.

Oh.

We didn't need anyone's help to win games.

We won with our own strength.

When you're at the top of the tree, everyone at the bottom

is trying to shoot you down.

The leak forced us to take action immediately.

We had to do it all in a crazy rush.

So, we subpoenaed the suspects.

Most importantly, Luciano Moggi.

Juventus is in the spotlight again.

Today, Moggi will be interrogated.

He's just arrived in Rome.

He's on his way to the police headquarters.

I was stressed.

It was as if time and space had stopped...

because Italy was desperate to know what would happen next.

Finally, I met Luciano Moggi in person, up close, for the first time.

The expression on his face was tense.

I struggled to look them in the eyes.

I wanted to find out what they would accuse me of

since I hadn't done anything wrong.

I didn't know what they could charge me with.

May 15th, 2006...

Before we start asking questions, is there anything you'd like to say?

I've been attacked by everyone. I've been made a scapegoat.

I can't accept this. I have always obeyed the law.

I was certain I was innocent.

He asked us, "Have I done something wrong?"

"Is this illegal?"

I did talk to the referee administrators. But so did everyone else.

Of course we try to look out for ourselves,

because this is something all football clubs do.

"This is football."

So, we clashed with him, because we kept saying,

"Look, this is illegal."

And I never asked to win a match.

Look, this is actually a crime.

We are talking about organized crime.

Oh my!

So, Paparesta locked in the changing room...

Dear Lord...

Mr. Moggi, I want to tell you...

- We have always... - I have always been a good person,

and now I feel like I've turned into a Mafia Don!

In that moment, he realizes that the castle is crumbling.

Do you realize your career is over?

Please, don't ask me any questions...

because I don't have the desire or the strength.

My soul has been killed.

Tomorrow, I will resign as Sporting Director of Juventus.

From this evening, the world of soccer is no longer my world.

There have been shocking developments in the scandal.

The authorities are investigating nine clubs.

Three might be relegated.

The scandal grew week on week,

and the Italian Federation moved very quickly.

Juventus FC are relegated.

The Serie A titles are revoked.

A.C. Milan remain in Serie A,

but will have 15 points deducted.

All of a sudden, you have Milan given a big points penalty.

You have Lazio with a big points penalty,

and Juventus relegated, uh, from the top flight,

stripping them of two titles that they'd won.

Tonight, the verdict was greeted in Turin with anger and defiance.

There was an exodus of top players leaving to go abroad.

Juventus stand to lose some of their star players

in what could be the sale of the century.

All football fans are victims of this sickness in football.

This has destroyed football.

As a fan, and as a person who works in the world of football,

it's terrifying.

Don't you think it's a metaphor for Italy today?

No, absolutely not.

This is something that's restricted to a small part of football.

Moggi's resignation was the end of an era.

But for us, only one thing was important:

taking him to court and proving he was guilty.

I felt pretty broken.

I was even ashamed to walk on the street.

It was as if a house had fallen on me.

This team was my masterpiece.

In that moment, I thought of many things.

It's important to say,

it included committing suicide, because I was really...

But religion taught me that life is made of many moments,

beautiful and bad.

And you have to fight through the bad ones.

In my darkest moment, I felt an inner strength

which said, "You must fight."

"Show the world that everything being said is untrue."

Now the Calciopoli scandal:

Juventus' former Sporting Director is on trial.

We'll start the hearings now.

I believe in justice.

I believe in a fair world,

but when I read that motto, "The Law is Equal for All,"

I had my doubts.

Because even if this was a scandal, all of football should have been on trial,

not just a small part of it.

Not just me.

I'm here to say I'm being portrayed...

as the head of a system which I've never been part of.

We had hundreds of thousands of wiretaps,

but we needed witnesses.

I just wanted to understand why...

officials who made decisions against Juventus didn't referee anymore.

Did you ever receive threats from Luciano Moggi?

He said, "Be careful, you piece of shit, or you'll end up in a bad way."

- Objection! - Lawyers, please calm down!

They told me I was a disgrace,

that they were appalled by my refereeing.

Moggi's statements are quite dramatic. He says, "I locked the referee

in the changing room and took the keys."

I don't think the door was locked.

This never happened.

I made a joke.

Ididn't actually do it.

Moggi jokingly said he'd locked him in the changing room.

He was accused of kidnapping!

Kidnapping!

This whole trial has been done like this.

Some bullshit is said on the phone, pardon my language,

and an accusation is based on this?

The media coverage was on Moggi's side,

making out he was the victim

and we were the crazy ones.

If they want a war, we'll give them a war.

Luciano Moggi! Luciano Moggi!

Yeah, the fans definitely supported me,

but not only Juventus fans, because people with common sense

realized that there was no truth to what they were saying.

Moggi is innocent!

THANKS FOR EXISTING

That Luciano Moggi was completely different

from the person I had met face-to-face.

He was confident and had control over everything around him.

This is not a trial. This is a ruthless witch hunt.

It was not true that the Moggi system controlled football.

It was the way football worked, generally.

The other football teams spoke to the referees and the designators.

This was completely left out by the public prosecutors.

We've got about 2,000 wiretaps of other Sporting Directors

calling the Referees' Association.

Only the part about Juventus came out.

It's not in the report because it wasn't relevant

to our investigation.

Moggi's defense argued there was no conspiracy,

so, either everyone is guilty, or everyone is innocent.

Moggi was the ideal scapegoat for the world of football,

a world that wanted to clean up its image

by sacrificing Luciano Moggi.

I was constantlyworried that our case had been damaged.

It was a tough time.

The big day has arrived.

They will be announcing the verdict in the Calciopoli trial.

For Luciano Moggi, the moment of truth has arrived.

Nothing like this had ever been done before,

so nobody could predict the verdict.

In accordance with article 29 of the criminal code,

Luciano Moggi is found guilty.

Luciano Moggi, this court sentences you to five years and four months in prison.

I was so pleased.

The verdict silenced all the critics.

COURT OF LAW

The truth won.

Bibi. Hey, hey.

You've been released.

You're not locked up anymore.

You're free now. Yes.

I proved that I was innocent.

If no matches were fixed, if the referees were all acquitted,

was football really broken?

Of all the referees and officials caught up in the scandal,

Massimo De Santis was the only one whose conviction was upheld.

Everybody else who was convicted was either acquitted on appeal,

or, because so much time had elapsed, the statute of limitations kicked in

and their convictions were written off.

Those who led the Calciopoli trial

will have to face a different judge

with no chance for appeal.

Jesus Christ. He's the Supreme Judge.

Hello.

Listen, I'll tell you something.

You could try the ex-Juventus player.

Okay. Bye.

Who knows what Moggi is doing now?

Life goes on.

When I watch a match now,

I'm never sure...

they're totally clean.

This case has totally changed

my perspective on football...

and revealed its dark side.