In an interview with Sports Prediction, the former general manager of Juventus accused the FIGC president during the Calciopoli scandal of favoring Milan. This was his response.

“Nineteen years have passed since Calciopoli, readers have partly changed, and not everyone remembers everything.” Thus begins the letter in response to Luciano Moggi’s statements sent by Franco Carraro to La Sports Prediction dello Sport. “I therefore consider it necessary,” he continues, “to recall that the Preliminary Investigating Magistrate of Naples, the Court of Cassation, the Court of Auditors, and the Lazio Regional Administrative Court, the highest level of sports justice, have recognized my innocence, defining my behavior as ‘institutionally correct.’ The final judgments on Luciano Moggi have been different. With best regards.” This is a clear reference to the convictions imposed on Moggi, not only in terms of sports justice but also in terms of criminal justice: five years and four months’ imprisonment for criminal association and sports fraud, reduced on appeal to two years and four months. This sentence was modified again years later, in 2015, by the Court of Cassation, which overturned the second-instance conviction until the statute of limitations expired.

It is clear that the former president of the FIGC was annoyed by the interview published today by Sports Prediction, in which the former Juventus general manager stated that during the Calciopoli scandal, “We and Milan were fighting for the Scudetto, and Carraro was trying to favor the Rossoneri, of which he had been president in the past.” Moggi’s jab was in response to a previous interview with Carraro, who dismissed the Calciopoli affair as a “big political mistake. In 2004, I thought that Bergamo and Pairetto could no longer be referees: at that moment, the two thought they could survive by leaning on Moggi…”. The rest is history. The present, however, continues to be a bitter exchange between Carraro and Moggi. Even 19 years later.