Luciano Moggi
Luciano Moggi (Italian pronunciation: [luˈtʃano ˈmɔddʒi]; born 10 July 1937 in Monticiano, Italy) is a former Italian football administrator.[1]
Biography
Moggi was born in Monticiano, in the province of Siena.
He worked as a railway station caretaker until the early 1970s, when he met Italo Allodi, then Juventus' managing director, who appointed him to minor roles at the club.
Before being called as chief managing director by Juventus in 1994, he worked for and collaborated with several teams, such as Torino, Napoli, Roma and Lazio. He has a son Alessandro, who works as an agent for several football players and managers. He is head of GEA World, a consortium of football agents and managers, which the company and Alessandro were ranked the first by volume from 2002 to 2006.[2] He was nicknamed by Italian journalist Marco Travaglio as "Lucky Luciano", a reference to the notorious gangster.
In 2006 he was the main figure involved in a football scandal, after the publication of several wiretappings in which he suggested and asked for particular referees' names to Pierluigi Pairetto, the former Italian referee nominator. The scandal, which also involved his son, undermined the figure of Moggi, and fueled several inquiries by the judicial courts of Rome and Naples. As a consequence of the scandal, which is still unfolding, the Italian Football Federation president Franco Carraro and the president of the Italian Referee Association both resigned. As for Moggi, after the 2006 season's final match of his team against Reggina, he announced that he would resign from his position and would retire from the world of football altogether:[3][4]
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I don't have either the strength nor the willingness to answer any question. I miss my soul, it has been killed. Tomorrow I'll be resigning, since tonight the football world isn't my world anymore. I'll think only to defend myself from all allegations and wicked actions.
He continues to make observations on the Serie A on the newspaper Libero[5] and the local television channel Telecapri Sport.
Since 2011 collaborates with Radio Manà Manà.[6]
Personal views
Moggi has spoken out against gay footballers, saying that: "A homosexual can't fulfil the job of a footballer. I wouldn't put one under contract and if I discovered I had one, he would fly immediately."[7]
See also
References
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External links
- Jonathan O'Brien, The Sunday Business Post, 16 July 2006, "The Italian Job"
- Jason Burke, The Observer, 30 July 2006, "Paradiso to inferno"
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