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Antonio Conte, coach of Juventus, is involved in the latest match fixing case, in which the Italian Soccer federation has asked for a year and a half sanction after the Conte did not alert authorities to match fixing while he was coaching Siena in the second division in the 2010-2011 season.
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The latest case in Italy is called Calciscommesse (soccer bets) which implicates various Serie A players: Stefano Mauri, Lazio captain, and Domenico Criscito, as well as the Juventus coach.
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Calciopoli or Moggigate is the most famous case of match-fixing, taking place in Italy in 2006. It ended with Juvenuts relegated to the Serie B, losing two titles, and the arrest of Luciano Moggi, the director of the club. Clubs like Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina were also implicated.
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Paolo Rossi was implicated in an illegal gambling case in 1980, when he played with Perugia, and was almost left out of the 1982 World Cup, where he would be top scorer and world champion.
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After the 1993-1994 season, Olympique Marseilles was sent to the second division after its president, Bernard Tapies, was accused of bribery and match fixing, charges that would eventually lead to jail.
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In 2005, German second division oficial, Roberto Hoyzer, was sentenced to two and a half years of prison for fixing 23 matches as part of an international illegal betting ring.
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In April 2012, former soccer player Lee Kyung-Hwan committed suicide after being banned for life with 40 other players for match fixing. The suicide was the fourth in connection to a betting scandal in the South Korean K-League in 2011.
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In February 2012, the vice president of the Chinese Football Association, Yang Yimin, and former director of the Asian Officials Committee, Zhang Jianqiang, were sentenced to ten and a half and twelve years of prison, respectively, for a match fixing scandal that spread through various seasons. Four other Chinese officials were sentenced to prison.
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The Guatemalan international, Luis Rodriguez, admitted to FIFA officials that he had received Money offers to fix matches; Rodriguez accused Gustavo Cabrera, Yony Flores and Guillermo Ramirez of proposing fixing three international friendlies: two against Costa Rica and one against Venezuela. Carlos Pescadito Ruiz had also reported the event to his coach.
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The 6-1 defeat by Santos against Municial de Guatemala, in the CONCACAF Champions League, on October 19 2010, was mentioned in FIFAs match fixing investigations.
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Sampordia returns to the Serie A with a sanction for match fixing: they will have top ay 30 thousand Euros and Andrea Masiello, Atalanta defender, was suspended 26 months. Alessandro Parisi, who now plays for Torino, will be out two years, while Marco Rossi of Cesena, will be out 20 months.
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Sevilla was linked to a match-fixing investigation by Norwegian police after Martin Andresen, coach of Valerenga, bet against the Spanish club after being told by the keeper Frode Olsen, that the team would lose against Ovieda in a 200 league match.
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Antonio Conte, coach of Juventus, is involved in the latest match fixing case, in which the Italian Soccer federation has asked for a year and a half sanction after the Conte did not alert authorities to match fixing while he was coaching Siena in the second division in the 2010-2011 season.
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