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Today's Lesson – Sports Ethics

When writing my last post, about Luciano Moggi, I had yet to come across the news that Moggi has been invited to address students at a technical institute in Agropoli, a city in the Southern region of Campania. The theme for the day – Sport’s Education.

Afterwards he will inaugurate a Luciano Moggi Juventus fan club. La Repubblica tells us that there are already four other fan clubs dedicated to him.


The organiser of the events in Agropoli (to take place on 9th of February), Sergio Vessicchio, told journalists that the events were part of an effort to “finally prove false the equation that Luciano Moggi equals calciopoli. The ex Juventus director was the victim of a system designed to bring to its knees one club only: Juventus”.

One wonders what Moggi’s lesson will be to the students. Perhaps a beginner’s guide to how to deal with referees who don’t show respect.

In the meantime, it appears that Mediaset, Berlusconi’s TV network (which places a huge emphasis on football, in particular on its new subscription channels), has filed a suit against the Italian Football league, calling for a reduction in the fees for TV rights to games in Italy’s Serie A.

The suit alleges that, “examining various official parameters, it’s objectively demonstrable that the retrocesion [of Juventus] and the penalties meted out … have produced a strong loss of interest in Serie A

It should be noted, of course, that one of Berlusconi’s other business interests is A.C. Milan, which was one of the teams at the heart of calciopoli. So, your team brings the game into disrepute, and you file suit against the institution that (only after much political and public pressure) enforced the rules. A genius move, that perhaps Prof. Moggi can add to his lecture list.