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Moggi has been banned from having any role in football by the FIGC's federal court...
By Salvatore Landolina
Apr 28, 2010 7:00:00 PM
Luciano Moggi, Antonio Giraudo and former Italian FA vice-president Innocenzo Mazzini have been banned from football for life. The FIGC confirmed in a statement released on Wednesday that they are not allowed to hold any future role in football.
The official statement reads:
"The federal Court of Justice, who today released a statement in which the advisory panel met on 13 April under the chairmanship of Dr Giancarlo Corragio, expresses its opinion on the interpretation of Article 19 of the Code of Sport's Justice in relation to the exclusion of holding a rank within FIGC roles.
The request for interpretation was formulated in recent weeks by FIGC president Giancarlo Abete, following a legal void created in the transition between the discipline of the old Code of Justice and the new sports legislation which came into force on 1 July 2007.
In their opinion, following the outcome of the discussion, the Chamber of the Court of Justice advisory says: "it is considered that the measure of exclusion must be considered implicit, as statutory effect, in the decisions with which the organs of sporting justice, after having imposed the sanction of suspension to the fullest extent, having looked at the particular seriousness of the offence."
When Moggi, Giraudo and Mazzini received their Calciopoli verdicts in 2006, they were banned for five years with the possibility of permanent exclusion.
Laws before Calciopoli stated that the federal court made the proposition of permanent exclusion, but the decision would rest with the president. At the time, Guido Rossi was commissioner of the FIGC and he did not make a decision as to whether the three should be permanently excluded from football.
Meanwhile, the laws were changed in 2007 when new principles establised by the CONI (Italian Olympic Committee) stipulated that sports management, and sports justice were to be seperated. With that, the possibility exclusion remained open and the powers to exclude remained with the federal court.
Thus, on March 31 2010, FIGC president Giancarlo Abete asked the federal court for an opinion into the possible exclusion of the three. On April 13 the federal court gathered and today gave their decision. It was based on the reasons that Moggi's original five year ban, due to expire in 2011, was still in force, and that he had received a fair sporting trial in 2006 - a legal process that cannot be reopened. |
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