Luciano Moggi
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Luciano Moggi is an Italian
football
managing director. He was the general director of Juventus F.C.
from 1994 until May 2006, years that anointed him as one of the most successful football managing director except the last two club seasons that were involved in Calciopoli. Moggi is currently being tried in a criminal court for sporting fraud in connection with the 2006 Calciopoli scandal.
, in the province of Siena
.
He worked as a railway station caretaker until the early 1970s, when he met Italo Allodi
, then Juventus' managing director, who appointed him to minor roles at the club.
Before being called as chief managing director by Juventus in 1994, he worked and collaborated for several teams, such as Torino
, Napoli
, Roma
and Lazio
. He has a son, Alessandro, who works as an agent for several football players and managers, and is head of GEA World, a consortium of football agents and managers, which the company and Alessandro were ranked the first by volume from 2002 to 2006. He was nicknamed by Italian journalist Marco Travaglio
as "Lucky Luciano
", a reference to the notorious gangster.
In 2006 he was the main figure involved in a football scandal, after the publication of several wiretappings in which he suggested and asked for particular referees' names to Pierluigi Pairetto
, the former Italian referee nominator. The scandal, which also involved his son, undermined the figure of Moggi, and fueled several inquiries by the judicial courts of Rome
and Naples
. As a consequence of the scandal, which is still unfolding, the Italian Football Federation president Franco Carraro
and the president of the Italian Referee Association both resigned. As for Moggi, after the season's final match of his team against Reggina, he announced that he would resign from his position and would retire from the world of football altogether:
He continues to make observations on the Serie A on the newspaper Libero
and the local television channel Telecapri Sport.
During his Torino administration, he won the following trophies:
During his Juventus administration, he won the following trophies:
Italy
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football
Football (soccer)
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managing director. He was the general director of Juventus F.C.
Juventus F.C.
Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
from 1994 until May 2006, years that anointed him as one of the most successful football managing director except the last two club seasons that were involved in Calciopoli. Moggi is currently being tried in a criminal court for sporting fraud in connection with the 2006 Calciopoli scandal.
Biography
Moggi was born in MonticianoMonticiano
Monticiano is a town and comune on the right bank of the Val di Merse, Tuscany, Italy, administratively part of the Province of Siena. It has 1,412 inhabitants as of December 31, 2004...
, in the province of Siena
Province of Siena
The Province of Siena is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Siena.It has an area of 3,821 km² , and a total population of 252,288 . There are 36 comuni in the province...
.
He worked as a railway station caretaker until the early 1970s, when he met Italo Allodi
Italo Allodi
Italo Allodi was an Italian association football manager who was implicated, in many attempts to fix matches....
, then Juventus' managing director, who appointed him to minor roles at the club.
Before being called as chief managing director by Juventus in 1994, he worked and collaborated for several teams, such as Torino
Torino F.C.
Torino Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Torino, is a professional Italian football club based in Turin, Piedmont, that was founded in 1906. The club has spent most of its history in the top tier in Italian football....
, Napoli
S.S.C. Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli, commonly referred to as Napoli, is a professional Italian football club based in Naples and founded in 1926. The club has spent most of its history in Serie A, where it currently plays its 2011–12 season....
, Roma
A.S. Roma
Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...
and Lazio
S.S. Lazio
Società Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
. He has a son, Alessandro, who works as an agent for several football players and managers, and is head of GEA World, a consortium of football agents and managers, which the company and Alessandro were ranked the first by volume from 2002 to 2006. He was nicknamed by Italian journalist Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio
Marco Travaglio is an Italian investigative journalist, writer and commentator.-Biography:Travaglio was born in Turin. He started his career writing for Catholic publications such as Il nostro tempo , then worked for the renowned journalist Indro Montanelli for newspapers such as Il Giornale and...
as "Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano
Charlie "Lucky" Luciano was an Italian mobster born in Sicily. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime in the United States for splitting New York City into five different Mafia crime families and the establishment of the first commission...
", a reference to the notorious gangster.
In 2006 he was the main figure involved in a football scandal, after the publication of several wiretappings in which he suggested and asked for particular referees' names to Pierluigi Pairetto
Pierluigi Pairetto
Pierluigi Pairetto is an Italian former football referee. Among the many prestigious games he officiated were the Euro 96 final between Germany and the Czech Republic at Wembley, and the classic USA 94 second-round clash between Romania and Argentina in Pasadena.He held the position of Italian...
, the former Italian referee nominator. The scandal, which also involved his son, undermined the figure of Moggi, and fueled several inquiries by the judicial courts of Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and Naples
Naples
Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
. As a consequence of the scandal, which is still unfolding, the Italian Football Federation president Franco Carraro
Franco Carraro
Franco Carraro is an Italian sport manager and a former member of Italian Socialist Party in the 1980s and 1990s.-Football:Carraro was born in Padua....
and the president of the Italian Referee Association both resigned. As for Moggi, after the season's final match of his team against Reggina, he announced that he would resign from his position and would retire from the world of football altogether:
He continues to make observations on the Serie A on the newspaper Libero
Libero (newspaper)
Libero is an Italian Right-wing newspaper, published in Milan, Italy, founded by the journalist Vittorio Feltri and edited by Maurizio Belpietro....
and the local television channel Telecapri Sport.
Personal views
Moggi has spoken out against gay footballers, saying that: "A homosexual can't fulfil the job of a footballer. I wouldn't put one under contract and if I discovered I had one, he would fly immediately."Honours
During his Napoli administration, he won the following trophies:- 1 Scudetto
- 1 UEFA Cup
- 1 Italian Supercup
During his Torino administration, he won the following trophies:
- 1 Mitropa Cup
- 1 Italian Cup
During his Juventus administration, he won the following trophies:
- 5 Scudetti (+2 revoked)
- 1 Italian Cup
- 4 Italian Supercup
- 1 Intercontinental Cup
- 1 Champions League
- 1 European Supercup
- 1 UEFA Intertoto Cup
External links
- Jonathan O'Brien, The Sunday Business PostThe Sunday Business PostThe Sunday Business Post is an Irish national Sunday newspaper published by Post Publications Limited. Post Publications is owned by Thomas Crosbie Holdings. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, Ireland, the average weekly circulation was 57,783 for the period January to June 2009. The...
, 16 July 2006, "The Italian Job" - Jason Burke, The ObserverThe ObserverThe Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
, 30 July 2006, "Paradiso to inferno"