Italy won the World Cup recently. At that time, we also heard about the match fixing, buying referees and such other corrupt practices, which led to four of the biggest Italian football clubs being penalized. Together, these clubs had provided thirteen players to the team. Juventus, the Italian champions, were stripped of their title.
This mother of all corruption/match fixing stories should warm all Indian hearts. Please read Jason Burke’s Paradiso to Inferno for the story of Luciano Moggi, the President of Juventus, who brought down a club and tarnished a league, through his contacts in politics, media and football. He was no better than his namesake, Lucky Luciano, the father of modern organized crime in America.
If nothing else, this story proves corruption and match fixing are global.
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