Totti is still working hard to get back to 100% physically, n he oledi said that he wouldn't return for the national team until next year.

but now the Don may force to ask Totti to get back...


We need Totti, says Don

Coach Roberto Donadoni is ready to turn to Francesco Totti in a desperate effort to get Italy's European Championship qualifying campaign back on track.

Totti stated last week that he didn't intend to play for the Nazionale again until 2007, but he's likely to get the call after the Azzurri followed up Saturday's 1-1 Lithuania draw with a 3-1 loss in France last night.

And with must win games against Ukraine and Georgia coming up next month, Donadoni has hinted he will recall the Roman for those ties.

"Italy now need their champions and I trust that two or three of them will be at my disposal in October," noted the former Milan winger.

"As for Totti, I know he last said he would not return until next year, but that is not what he had told me. We agreed to speak every once in a while to assess his physical condition.

"I will call him, as I will do with the other world champions who were not in Paris. I don't want all the attention focused on Totti, but Italy now really need him."

More...

Latest Serie A results :

Inter 3 - 2 Fiorentina
Roma 2 - 0 Livorno

n for Juve start their life in Serie B with a 1 - 1 draw with Rimini.

Toni goal comes a bit late if sooner Inter might be held.

Boumsong never change. Once shit, always shit. A walking disaster.
Lucky only Serie B. Gone next season should they come up?

Serie A week 1 results
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Atalanta 3-1 Ascoli
Cagliari 0-1 Catania
Chievo 1-2 Siena
Fiorentina 2-3 Inter
Milan 2-1 Lazio
Messina 1-0 Udinese
Palermo 4-3 Reggina
Roma 2-0 Livorno
Sampdoria 1-2 Empoli
Torino 1-1 Parma

Serie A week 2
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Ascoli 1-1 Messina
Catania 0-0 Atalanta
Empoli 1-1 Chievo
Inter 1-1 Sampdoria
Lazio 1-2 Palermo
Livorno 1-0 Fiorentina
Parma 0-2 Milan
Reggina 2-1 Cagliari
Siena 1-3 Roma
Udinese 2-0 Torino


next up spotlight : Roma vs Inter

JUVENTUS - VICENZA: 2-1

GOALS: Trezeguet 45+1', Del Piero 53', Raimondi 59'

BOOKED: Rigoni 8', Schwoch 74', Zanetti 90+1, Nedved 90+2'

JUVENTUS: Buffon; Birindelli, Kovac, Boumsong, Chiellini (Balzaretti 73'); Marchionni (Camoranesi 76'), Zanetti, Paro, Nedved; Del Piero (capt.) (Palladino 86'), Trezeguet
Subs not used: Mirante, Giannichedda, Bojinov, Zalayeta
Coach: Deschamps

VICENZA: Guardalben; Martinelli, Fissore (capt.), Scardina, Padoin (Viskovic 86'); Helguera, Rigoni; Raimondi, Zanini (Vailatti 73'), Sgrigna; Cavalli (Schwoch 62')
Subs not used: Zancopè, Pesoli, Paonessa, Crovari
Coach: Camolese

Serie A round 3
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Atalanta 0-0 Empoli
Cagliari 2-2 Livorno
Chievo 0-1 Lazio
Fiorentina 1-0 Parma
Messina 2-0 Reggina
Milan 1-0 Ascoli
Palermo 5-3 Catania
Roma 0-1 Inter
Sampdoria 3-3 Udinese
Torino 1-2 Siena

Serie A round 4 results
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Ascoli 1-1 Sampdoria
Catania 2-2 Messina
Empoli 2-0 Palermo
Inter 4-3 Chievo
Lazio 1-0 Atalanta
Livorno 0-0 Milan
Parma 0-4 Roma
Reggina 1-1 Torino
Siena 0-0 Cagliari
Udinese 1-0 Fiorentina


Inter was leading 4-0, n the Flying Donkey fight back to scored 3 ! wow...

here's the real scandal..

The FIGC are set to launch an investigation after former referee Massimo De Santis accused Inter of tailing him in 2002.

The former official, who was handed a four-year ban because of his involvement in the Calciopoli scandal, also accused the Via Durini outfit of tapping his phone, after another scandal broke out in the past few days in Italy revealing hundreds of cases of phone interceptions by Telecom Italia.

"When I first learned about this operation by Massimo Moratti I was disgusted, even if I know that can be a strong word to use," said De Santis in a television interview.

"I am paying for something that I didn't do, I have always stated my innocence and to know today what was happening a few years ago really makes me sick.

"Why were they following me? I think they maybe wanted to blackmail me."

It is reported that Inter decided to have De Santis followed by a private investigator after former referee Danilo Nucini informed the late Inter chief Giacinto Facchetti of suspicious relations between Luciano Moggi and De Santis.

The investigation however brought to no firm results and the file was closed seeing as "there were no anomalies in De Santis' way of life."

If the accusations prove to be true, Inter could risk a fine for violating the sporting code, but there would be no consequences for the team itself in terms of points deductions.

Inter owner Moratti reacted immediately, saying that his club has nothing to do with the interceptions despite Telecom Italia being one of its shareholders.

"He's got some cheek to say this kind of things - Inter has no involvement in this issue," said the oil tycoon to La Gazzetta dello Sport.

"I think De Santis' words are very serious, he cannot ignore the damage he is causing us by making these statements."

Coach Roberto Mancini backed up Moratti's comments, stating: "He's disgusted? Myself and many others have been disgusted for months and we shall be so for the rest of our lives."

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Guido Rossi(ex-Inter member, ex-FIGC commish, new Telecom Prez) , Moratti(Inter owner, Telecom shareholder), Tronchetti(ex-Telecom Prez, Inter shareholder), Buora(Inter VP, Telecom board, Pirelli)

http://www.inter.it/en/societa/organigramma.html
http://www.telecomitalia.com/cgi-bin/tipor...TIconsiglio.jsp

They already done the damage. Juve is B. Well done Inter

This post has been edited by fariz: Sep 26 2006, 10:22 AM

lol, its really like no1 love Inter all over everywhere.

Moggi attacks Rossi
Wednesday 27 September, 2006

Luciano Moggi has hit out at former Federal Commissioner Guido Rossi, accusing him of acting on Inter's behalf during the Calciopoli investigation.

Juventus' former director general was handed a five-year ban in the aftermath of the summer match-fixing scandal and believes that Rossi intentionally wanted to ruin him and the Bianconeri.

"Inter, Telecom Italia, Massimo Moratti, Marco Tronchetti Provera and Rossi are all partners in the same things - that is Telecom Italia and Inter," Moggi said on Italian television last night.

"Rossi did what he had to do and then returned to his home base at Telecom," added Moggi, referring to Rossi's new appointment at the head of Telecom Italia, which forced him to resign from his post at the FIGC last week.

"The revelations of the past few days confirm what I have been saying for months when I referred to industrial espionage.

"I once again deny the legitimacy of the phone interceptions. Often there are words missing and in other print-outs there are extra words - how can we trust this kind of information?

"That is why I decided to give Paolo Bergamo some foreign mobile phone cards, I was aware that everyone knew what I was doing and had to somehow protect myself.

"Juventus was hit in a moment of weakness following the death of Gianni and Umberto Agnelli - had they been alive these things would have never happened."

The Old Lady of Italian football currently resides in Serie B with a 17-point deduction, although they are hoping to have that reduced at their CONI hearing next month.

Italian fixing scandal goes down to the wire

SAMUEL JOHNSON FAMOUSLY OPINED that "it is is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust". Johnson would have a hard time selling his argument in Italian football.

You may have thought that last spring's influence-peddling scandal was the final instalment in Serie A's cloak-and-dagger chicanery. Think again. Last week, it emerged that employees of Telecom, Italy's equivalent of BT, were illegally wire-tapping hundreds of Italian public figures, including businessmen, politicians, actors and footballers.

At the heart of the inquiry is Giuliano Tavaroli, Telecom's chief of security. According to magistrates, Tavaroli teamed up with Emanuele Cipriani, a private investigator whose company is registered in London, to sell the transcripts of the phone calls. They were also allegedly a one-stop surveillance shop: for a fee, Cipriani could arrange to have someone followed and even obtain bank records via his contacts in the Italian secret service.

The idea was simple: people who are famous, rich or powerful occasionally have skeletons in their closet. You may discover that someone is dodging his taxes or associating with criminals; or that he cheats on his wife or enjoys pornography in industrial quantities. Whatever the case, by invading their privacy you can gather sensitive information that can be used either to blackmail them or, if leaked to the press, damage their reputation.

The whole affair intersects neatly with the scandal that resulted in Juventus being relegated to Serie B and AC Milan, Fiorentina, Reggina and Lazio being slapped with hefty points penalties. Most of the evidence in the case was gathered via wiretaps.

And here is where the conspiracy theorists went to town. One club benefited more than any other from the scandal: Inter Milan. They were assigned last season's scudetto - after Juventus were stripped of the title - and their rivals' punishments forced them to sell players and weaken their squads.

Telecom's majority shareholder, Marco Tronchetti Provera, holds a 13.9 per cent stake in Inter and investigators found that Cipriani had invoiced Inter for services rendered. Massimo Moratti, the owner of Inter, is scheduled to be heard by the Italian FA on this matter next week. One unnamed Telecom employeee told magistrates that Adamo Bove, Tavaroli's right-hand man at Telecom, asked him to log the phone calls of a number of officials at Juventus and the Italian FA, as well as various referees. Bove committed suicide last July.

Some of the conspiracy theorists maintain that the summer's scandal - in which Juventus and other clubs were found to have colluded with high-ranking officials at the Italian FA to influence the selection and performance of referees - was orchestrated by Inter, using their influence over Telecom and their access to phone records.

"Right now it's hard for me to be objective," Didier Deschamps, the Juventus manager, said. "So all I'm going to say is that, until a few weeks ago, people thought we were the only club who were rotten to the core. Now these same people have changed their mind and they're starting to believe that everything that went on this summer was an organised and concerted effort to bring us down."

One of the most staggering aspects of the affair emerged on Friday, when it was alleged that Tavaroli and Cipriani were spying on Tronchetti Provera, Telecom's chairman, as well, which would suggest that he was not involved, thereby weakening the Inter link.

And as far as the invoice to the club, Inter claim that it was surveillance work carried out on Christian Vieri, the striker, whom they suspected was spending too much time in various nightclubs.

Either way, none of this changes the fact that the clubs punished in the scandal were found guilty based on wire-tap evidence, which is largely indisputable. True, it does matter how evidence is obtained, but the wire-taps that condemned Juventus and others were legally obtained by magistrates.

That said, the allegation that Inter were spying on their players is unsettling. Juxtapose the amount of money in football and the relatively paltry wages of phone company employees and the opportunity for wrongdoing is tempting.


By Gabriele Marcotti

New revelation rocks Inter
Monday 2 October, 2006

Inter's position in the most recent telephone interception scandal has become more critical after the confession of a former Telecom manager.

The FIGC launched a new investigation, which is being led by the head of the Investigation Office Francesco Saverio Borrelli, after former referee Massimo De Santis accused Inter of tailing him as well as tapping his phone in 2002, in the aftermath of the new scandal revealing hundreds of cases of phone interceptions by Telecom Italia.

According to the Italian Press, the ex-Telecom Italia security boss Giuliano Tavaroli confessed from prison that the he did spy on De Santis and that this activity was at least in part commissioned by the Nerazzurri, as confirmed by his lawyer.

"That is partially true. The activity was commissioned by the Inter management and was taken care of in part by Tavaroli, in part by the private investigator Emanuele Cipriani," said Massimo Dinoia after speaking to his client in the Voghera prison.

"The investigation was mainly aimed at acquiring information on the referee's properties and was conducted between 2002 and 2003."

Nerazzurri owner Massimo Moratti reacted immediately to the accusations, saying that his club had nothing to do with the interceptions despite Telecom being one of its shareholders.

He is scheduled to meet Borrelli on Tuesday to clarify his position, while De Santis, who declared that he would claim damages, will be heard on Monday.

Inter could risk a fine for violating the sporting code if the accusations prove to be true, but at the time being there is no reason to believe that there would be consequences for the team itself in terms of points deductions.

Source: Football Italia/Channel 4



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ptfff, only fine!??! they should be thrown to Serie Z (if it exist)

Wow, things are getting out of hand. There are scandals EVERYWHERE!

Azzurri squad for Ukraine n Georgia matches :

Goalkeepers: Abbiati (Torino), Amelia (Livorno), Buffon (Juventus)

Defenders: Barzagli (Palermo), Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Grosso (Inter), Materazzi (Inter), Nesta (Milan), Oddo (Lazio), Pasqual (Fiorentina), Zaccardo (Palermo), Zambrotta (Barcelona)

Midfielders: Camoranesi (Juventus), Del Vecchio (Sampdoria), De Rossi (Roma), Gattuso (Milan), Mauri (Lazio), Perrotta (Roma), Pirlo (Milan)

Forwards: Del Piero (Juventus), Di Michele (Palermo), Di Natale (Udinese), Iaquinta (Udinese), Inzaghi (Milan), Toni (Fiorentina)

oppps Abbiati??? Last week just conceeded 4 goals prefer De Sanctis more.

Last night u-21 game between Italy and Spain ended 0-0.

Italia:
Curci; Potenza, Andreolli, Mantovani, Chiellini; Nocerino, Rosina (Lazari, m.82), Montolivo, Aquilani, Palladino (Rossi, m.66); Pozzi (Pellé, min.74).

España:
Moyà; Melli, Albiol, Flaño, Garrido; Arizmendi (Cazorla, m.79), Raúl García, Zapater, Gavilán; Silva (Jurado, m.77), Kepa.

Spain u-21 squad,
Atlético de Madrid: Juan VALERA y José M. JURADO
Atlético Osasuna: JAVIER FLAÑO, RAUL GARCIA y Roberto SOLDADO
Deportivo La Coruña: Javier ARIZMENDI
Mallorca: Miguel Angel MOYA
Recreativo Huelva: Santiago CAZORLA
Real Betis: Juan A. Andreu 'MELLI'
Real Madrid-Castilla: Antonio ADAN y Rubén DE LA RED
Real Sociedad: Javier GARRIDO
Zaragoza: Alberto ZAPATER y Gerard PIQUE
Sevilla: KEPA Blanco y Antonio PUERTA
Valencia: Raúl ALBIOL, Jaime GAVILAN y David J. Jiménez SILVA

2nd leg at Palencia, Spain 10th Oct.

Azzurri 2 - 0 Ukraine

wow finally a win for the Don, thx to goals from Oddo n Toni.

lets make it 2 in a row.