All the Truth About JUVENTUS
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The shocking document about the scandal that dishonoured our history and tried to erase our glorious future. It’s time to face the facts! Enough lies, enough slanderous accusations. All the truth about JUVENTUS Let us win the most important match! All together! In this report, any statement can be verified, demonstrated, proven. Here we report ONLY the facts, sentences, laws, regulations. In a few pages we will dismantle the myth of "Juve cheat"; in a few steps you will understand what has happened and what has been done before, during and after that terrible summer of 2006. Hi everyone, We are fans, just like you, of that football team that gave us 29 League Titles won on the pitch, nine Italian Cups, 2 European Cups and an endless series of emotions, men and plays remained in the history of football. And in our minds. A team that...either you hate, or you are madly in love with: Juventus. With this report of a few pages, we would like to trace the origin and the implementation of a farce with no equal in the history of our Country; for years, in fact, some newspapers and TV programmes with self- styled slow-motion replays analysts and commentators have raised the masses against the football power of a team of absolute value, pillorying on the media any conduct of our managers and players and creating this way that “people’s sentiment” that has contributed more than anything else to relegate us to Serie B. We do not want to mouth rhetoric, in fact, quite the contrary. All the statements, as already said, will be briefly analyzed, leaving no space to our comments, surely "biased". We will go straight to the truth. We will not fling any accusations; we will not name the names or report the facts if not widely documented by laws, sentences, documents, statements (and not hearsays). Over recent years, Juventus and its managers have often been investigated, prosecuted...but are we sure we know the events as they really happened? Have we ever been convicted? And are we sure that other clubs that declared themselves "honest" had not committed out-and-out criminal offences over unsuspected years? We believe that only few of you are aware of how things are and only a careful analysis of all the news circulating on internet has led us to uncover the harsh reality. Our aim is to spread as much as possible the truth, too often hushed up by the media: the only act of presumption we could be accused of is the willingness to make EVERYONE understand, both Juventus brothers and others, that what was committed in 2006 and all that preceded and followed, is a scandal that should not only concern 2-3000 frantic fans, but an entire people. A Country that declares itself civil, like ours, cannot have concealed a mess so obvious and that includes a series of unheard-of outrages... We are confident that soon even those who are in the dark will understand. We conclude by thanking the editorial staff of the website ju29ro.com (read "juventinovero"), online magazine, our precious and irreplaceable source of information and articles, and all "friends" websites we have drawn from to write these few pages, concise to the bone by necessity, but full of news, perhaps unknown to many of you (repeat: NEWS, OBJECTIVE FACTS, not "rumors"). Any link to the original article may be consulted free of charge on the web. Many websites that carry out our own same battles will be mentioned in the links and bibliography section. We do not certainly do it for money, we do not want to pass for a pain in the neck, and we have no copyright. We are doctors, nurses, surveyors, engineers, workers, housewives, clerks, lawyers, students, Juventus small shareholders, journalists…who do not act for profit: print and share as many copies as you can! Maybe we have a last wish: we would like that all the Juventus people could finally be close-knit. At stake there is the restitution of the league titles deservedly won on the pitch and, above all, the return of the dignity as well as the rehabilitation before the nation and the world. We would be pleased that, in the event of a favorable outcome, we could all come together to celebrate; and that, if necessary, we would be ready to give full support to the club management, in every possible, available, civil and lawful way. Only and forever “Forza Juve”. THE GENESIS A family saga. <The Banks, pushed by Berlusconi’s government, were forced once again to support Lingotto’s [FIAT headquarter in Turin - ed] accounts through a particular funding transaction called “prestito convertendo” [“converted loan” - ed]; in short, such loan, once expired in the fall of 2005, would, in fact, deliver FIAT into the banks’ hands, excluding Agnelli's family, led by John Elkann, and reducing it to minority shareholders. (...) In view of this possibility, rumors had it that the then CEO of Juventus Giraudo, following a precise Andrea Agnelli’s input, was organizing a consortium to take Juventus over by buying out the shares owned by IFIL [investment company, now EXOR, which controls FIAT, Juventus etc. - ed] with the collaboration of several important partners both sporting and financial. Under consideration there was a colossal industrial plan that probably would have made of Juventus the best team in the world for many years to come. The same scenario is extensively described by Antonio Giraudo in an illuminating interview with “La Repubblica” on April 1 2006, about a month before the outbreak of Calciopoli (1). Here is an excerpt: "We want to create permanent resources allowing Juventus not only to internally finance itself over the years, thanks to the formidable trademark which represents, but to have a stronger and stronger world class team (...). We want to make of it the greatest club in the world, according to a specific industrial and sports model that has no equal in the football scene (...). I think that the importance of the plan and of the investments is consequent to the results one wants to obtain. We do not ask money to cover the losses or to buy some other player, but to create a formidable model that in football does not exist yet, and that would allow us to bridge the current gap between a club like ours and other major European realities. (...) It is necessary to prepare it quickly. I call it the "Ferrari’s model" since that is the example we want to follow. That is a big industry which produces profits for a sports side of absolute excellence. The same thing should happen to Juventus. It was, again, the thought of Giovanni and Umberto Agnelli. (...) At the beginning we started by working on costs and accounts, together with the sports goal. Then we have worked to consolidate the club Juventus, through operations that have brought us to be quoted on the Stock Exchange and to the ownership of the stadium as well as the implementation of a cutting-edge sports center we will soon inaugurate. The works for the jewel-stadium will begin at the end of the season. These are initiatives that will remain, able to also produce revenues other than those typical of football teams. (...) When you have solved the financial and economical problem, it is necessary gaining more political clout in the media. For Juventus, nowadays it is not so. Some of our opponents have broadcasters and media groups, and this matters a lot". The Elkanns, still according to what reported by the newspapers at that time, manage to neutralize the coup orchestrated by the banks through a bold financial operation, called “Equity Swap”, which effectively will allow them to maintain control over Fiat. At this point, once the hot potato relative to the “prestito convertendo” is settled, the settling of scores within the family begins, including the one about Juventus. (...) The handover had already been established within the family, but the veto imposed by Cuccia [a famous Italian banker - ed], who had never been on good terms with Umberto, forced Giovanni and Umberto to reach a compromise which provided for the latter "only" the bridge deck of IFIL, the company which is in fact the safe of the FIAT empire. In the margin of this agreement, which marked a "turning point" in the relations between the two brothers, Giovanni agreed, as a partial compensation for Umberto, for the latter to also take the reins of Juventus. Once the two patriarchs were dead, the two factions would line up as follows: on one side the Elkann brothers, Montezemolo and the guardians Gabetti and Grande Stevens; on the other side the Umbertians headed by Allegra, Umberto’s widow, with his son Andrea Agnelli and obviously Giraudo who was one of the closest managers to Umberto. In this scenario, it will be several times reported by our sources how Montezemolo intensely dislikes Giraudo, who, despite the gruff appearance, was and still is an excellent manager, one of the best of the Agnelli’s stable(2). Conspiracy and espionage. Giraudo and Moggi had to be eliminated from the scene, but it was necessary to find the best way: it would have been hard to justify their removal to the crowd. Therefore, an unprecedented plan was studied, exploiting the fact that in Milan and Rome there were many people who had a common interest with that of the new black-and-white course. The removal from the scene of Moggi and Giraudo was also, in fact, someone else’s goal, and not in Turin.