Saturday, September 23, 2023
Serie A 2010 2011 8 Goals Thriller AC Milan Udinese
The narrow 1-0 victory against Cagliari actually stretched Milan's lead at the top of the table in Serie A to five points after both Lazio and Napoli failed to gather maximum points and confirmed their status as winter champions. With 39 points from 18 matches, the former Italian and European champions are marching on towards their first Scudetto triumph since 2004.However, against Udinese on Sunday the Diavolo should expect themselves to come up against a strong side who could make them sweat yet again. Massimiliano Allegri's team, though, do have a formidable record at San Siro this season, having won six out of nine league fixtures, scoring 17 goals in the process. They have also won seven of their last nine Serie A encounters and have lost just one of them.Milan AC Serie B Stagione 1980 1981
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what is so new about all this? That football is fake, corrupt. We knew
that already, even if some people pretended they didn't know, or didn't
want to know because they have economic interests, or simply because
they are fans ... do you really think that the people who run football
want to blow things wide open. I don't ... they'll find a couple of
players near the end of their careers, and football will emerge stronger
than ever' M. Montezzi, Lazio midfielder, 4.3.1980 Between
December 1979 and February 1980, two Rome-based businessmen were to be
found in the stands of a number of Serie A and Serie B matches across
Italy. They visited Palermo and Avellino in the south, and Bologna in
central Italy. The men were football fans, but they were not at the
games out of a sense of fun. In fact, they thought they knew something
that virtually no other spectator of those games knew - the final
result. The games were fixed . .. and they had fixed them - or at least
tried to. It must have been extremely strange for these two men to be
watching those matches, knowing as they did that a number of players,
and sometimes managers and even club presidents, had agreed on a certain
result. Strange, and also very stressful, as a lot of money was riding
on the ability of those players to fix things correctly. The two men's
names were Massimo Cruciani, 32, and Alvaro Trinca, 45. This scandal was
given a number of different titles, such as calcioscommesse, but is
best known by the name Totonero. Totonero was (and is) the term given to
illegal football betting systems in Italy - where Totocalcio is the
legal, state-run betting game. Illegal punters could bet far more
extensively than legal ones, but they trusted their money to people
without scruples, who were often at the very least on the fringes of
organized crime syndicates. It goes without saying that no tax was paid
on any of this betting, and that the potential for quick lire was
immense - a temptation that our two businessmen, and a number of
players, found hard to resist. This is a complicated story, so let us
begin with our two potential fixers, Cruciani and Trinca.
Milan AC Serie B Stagione 1982 1983
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