Luciano Moggi (and his son) are going to prison

By: Francesco | January 8th, 2009

It as been 2 years and a couple of months since the big Calciopoli scandal in the summer of 2006. That trial already ended, with various people getting bans from football (Moggi received a 5 year ban). A second trial was held against the famed Italian Football Agency GEA, headed by Moggi’s son Alessandro and Marcello Lippi’s son Davide. All of these agents were accused of “private violence” and “attempted private violence” towards some of their clients (the most famous being Napoli midfielder Manuele Blasi). The big people accused were Luciano Moggi, the director general of Juventus, his agent son Alessandro Moggi, Davide Lippi (son of Marcello Lippi and head of the big Italian football agency GEA), as well as some other agents like Franco Zavaglia, Francesco Ceravolo, and Pasquale Gallo. As you may know, the legal system in Italy is extremely slow, and only today were the verdicts handed out to the indicted agents. The prosecutors wanted Luciano Moggi in bars for 6 years, his son Alessandro for 5 years, 3 and a half years for Franco Zavaglia, 2 years and four months for Francesco Ceravolo, 1 year and 4 months for Davide Lippi, and 8 months for Pasquale Gallo. Today the sentences were made in the Tribunal Court of Rome.

First off, Lippi, Zavaglia, Ceravolo, and Gallo were acquitted of all charges. They are all relieved and can continue their work as football agents. Which then leads us to the Moggi family. Luciano Moggi was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison, while his son Alessandro will be joining him for 1 year and 2 months. Both were guilty of “private violence” and “attempted private violence”. So is Moggi going to be locked up behind bars in the coming weeks? No, of course not. He will present his final appeal to the court (which, knowing Italy, will probably take a very long amount of time) and then we will see what his ultimate fate is.

Moggi said to reporters outside the court after being sentenced today, “We now will go to golden goal.”