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1980 Italian football scandal ("Totonero"): In May 1980, the largest match fixing scandal in the history of Italian football was uncovered by Italian Guardia di Finanza, after the spalling of two Roman shopkeepers, Alvaro Trinca and Massimo Cruciani, who declared that some Italian football players sold the football-matches for money ...
In 2023, a major match-fixing scandal broke in Brazilian football. Several players from Brazil's top leagues were accused of deliberately earning yellow cards, or penalties, in exchange for money ...
In the complaints, he also accused football referees of receiving agreed bribes. However, such accusations were not presented to the competent bodies. The businessman also accused Fortaleza , Palmeiras and São Paulo , without presenting evidence, [ 7 ] of colluding to harm Botafogo. [ 8 ]
Calciopoli (Italian: [kalˈtʃɔːpoli]) was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie B. [nb 1] Involving various clubs and numerous executives, both from the same clubs and from the main Italian football bodies (Italian Referee Association (AIA) [it; es], FIGC, and LNP), as well as some referees and referee assistants, the ...
The 2009 European football betting scandal was considered to be the biggest affair in European football since the 2005 football scandal of referee Robert Hoyzer and the Bundesliga scandal in the 1970/71 season when numerous players, coaches and officials were involved in game shifts.
The scandal was dramatised in 1997 in a BBC film The Fix, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Jason Isaacs as Tony Kay, Christopher Fulford as Jimmy Gauld and Steve Coogan as Sunday People journalist Michael Gabbert, whose investigative work led to the uncovering of the scandal.
At the start of the second phase, 16 people were involved in the investigations. [4] This number increased after new outcomes, on 10 May. [5]Initially, four players admitted their involvement with the match-fixing scandal, and were not indicted: Kevin Lomónaco (Red Bull Bragantino), Moraes (at the time at Juventude), Nikolas Farias (Novo Hamburgo) and Jarro Pedroso (Inter de Santa Maria). [6]
Totonero 1986 or Totonero bis was a scandal of football match fixing in Italy between 1984 and 1986 in Serie A, Serie B, Serie C1 and Serie C2. [1]It was uncovered in May 1986 by Italian Police and Armando Carbone, a friend of Italo Allodi (manager of Napoli), and in this scandal there were managers and football players that sold the football matches for money.