"I was also ashamed to walk the streets and at that moment I thought of many things, including suicide". These are the words of the former Juventus manager Luciano Moggi, who in the Netflix documentary “The dark side of the sport” retraces his darkest days in the investigation that made Italian football tremble.
"It is as if I had been in the top of a tree and everyone was ready to shoot from below. The first ten days were terrible", he said again about the opening of the investigation. "Television, radio and newspapers were constantly repeating ' football scandal and so on, but I have never taken advantage of anything or anyone. Being accused of being a thief hurt me ".
“It was as if not a tile had fallen on me, but an entire house - he continued -. That team was my masterpiece and in that moment I thought of many things there: it is important that I say it, even about suicide, but religion taught me that life is made up of many moments, good and bad, and we must go on . In the worst moment I felt an inner strength inside me telling me 'You have to fight, you have to show the world that what has been said and done are fictions' ".
"I spoke with the designators, but I spoke as everyone spoke, we tried to protect ourselves", he then pointed out about the accusations. “If it had been a real scandal it would have been 360 degrees, not twenty degrees: not just for me. It is not true that it was the Moggi system that conditioned football, but the general system: the other teams also spoke with the referees and the designator, but this was completely removed from circulation by the PM and only the small piece came out. 360 °: that of Juventus ".
"I proved that I didn't do anything either: if no match has been altered, if all the referees have been acquitted, what was the damage that had been done to football? Those who led the Calciopoli trial will go to a different judge , it will not be an appeal test but it will be determined: Jesus Christ, he is the supreme judge ”, the conclusion.
(Unioneonline / vl)