Juventus manager in suicide attempt

[Touring Mars]

Former Juventus player and current manager, Gianluca Pessotto, has apparently attempted to kill himself by jumping from a top floor window of the team's Headquarters in Turin yesterday (Article...)

Although not implicated in the current scandal himself, Pessotto has been involved in a separate doping scandal and was recently appointed as Juve manager to 'restore the club's reputation'.

As a few of you may be aware, Italian domestic football (soccer) looks set to be rocked to its foundations in the coming weeks as investigations take place about match-fixing allegations. Juventus, arguably Italy's most famous and successful football club, as well as AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina stand to be stripped of their Serie A status and demoted to Serie B (or even Serie C1) if the allegations of corruption are proven...

As a friend of mine pointed out, Genoa, who 'won' Serie B a few years ago, were found guilty of fixing just one match, and rather than being promoted to Serie A, they were demoted to Serie C1... that was the heavy punishment for just one match... these teams (although not the players) stand accused of being involved in a match fixing racket (which involved using corrupt referees) systematically over a whole season

 

[DQuaN]

I'll need to look into it, but my friend told me last night that Juve have definately been demoted to Serie B and will start with a 9 point defecit. Italian football is currently in turmoil.

 

[Poverty]

haha I hope all the top italian teams get demoted. Just imagine the superstars all playing in serie B. They would all wnat to leave, or have tremoundous fun running rings around the other teams. Id love it though if the players get annoyed and didnt try hard and ended up not getting promoted.

 

[Omnis]

Wtf. No wonder Zlatan sucked so hard in the WC.

I think this is a bad omen, because when I washed my Juve jersey, the logo fell off (stupid cheapass sweatshop glue).

 

[Vasco]

Wow, that's terrible. How would this have anything major to do with Zlatan playing crap in the World Cup (I thought it was the clubs and not the players involved)?

If the clubs get demoted to Serie C1 or B then I guess most of the best players would leave to join other clubs, and it would be a while until the teams involved regained their reputations...

 

[Touring Mars]

If the clubs get demoted to Serie C1 or B then I guess most of the best players would leave to join other clubs, and it would be a while until the teams involved regained their reputations...

Exactly... Juve are in deep merda at the moment and are currently travelling up a certain well-known creek that is not used to paddles... Lazio would also be stuffed, since they are already in severe financial jeopardy... atleast Juve are not in financial trouble at the moment, but they probably will be in the not too distant future...