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From Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport
Tucked away in September 2006 in Italy, Alessandro del Piero and Italy greats Gianluigi Buffon step out in front of 10,000 fans to the opening league match of the year.
Juventus are focusing on their first effort in Serie B, Italys next tier, along with the 1-1 draw against minnows Rimini was yet another low point in a scandal that shook European football.
That embarrassment quickly became rage and we had the urge to show we had been stronger than what had occurred to us Juve season ticket-holder Maurizio Giovannelli tells BBC Sport.
It finally gave us the ability to build an excellent winning age which isnt yet finished today, to be playing Champions League finals and become, once again, among the best five teams on the planet.
The most important driving factor with this wonderful winning cycle is definitely that feeling of embarrassment we felt heading down to Serie B.
Part of the humiliation was having two first-place endings stripped from them including the 2006 Serie A name, that was passed to Inter Milan. Yet a second charm to get that trophy was chose by Juventus Last week.
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Alongside Fiorentina AC Milan and Lazio, Juventus were also one of the greatest clubs in Italian football to confront allegations.
Transcripts from telephone taps were shown.
At one end of the line were key figures in football, in the other were refereeing officials. They were supposedly being pressured to favour clubs, together with the asserts only detected by chance since prosecutors investigated claims of doping in Juve.
Juve director Luciano Moggi was at the centre of the scandal, however he has always denied any wrongdoing. He, Italian football federation (FIGC) president Franco Carraro and vice-president Innocenzo Mazzini ended up resigning in their roles.
The narrative was like the eruption of a volcano, Roberto Beccantini, who was employed as a correspondent for La Stampa newspaper in Italy during the scandal, tells BBC Sport.
Juventus is a club which divides Italy over any other, and yet one that always had power with all the Agnellis as owners.
Also, it involved Moggi.
And remember that 2006 has been the year of this World Cup in Germany. Many of the journalists, politicians and showmen decided to cheer against our national team.
The Azzurri went all the way that summer and produced light of these problems.
The narrative of Moggi and Juventus chairman Antonio Giraudo is quite remarkable.
They had supposedly detained his two assistants along with referee Gianluca Paparesta in a room after Juves 2-1 loss at Reggina in November 2004, also were said to have berated the officials for not overburdened Juve. They deny this was the case.
Italian newspapers printed wiretaps of Moggi trying to place pressure on Uefas referees commissions vice-chairman and of calls.
It was just like a gang warfare, says Beccantini.
The jolt at the time is not hard to envision. Half the nation was pleased that Juventus had been punished, although the other half – the Juventina – had been angry and spoke about conspiracy.
Even though we have had scandals like doping, false passports and gambling, I think that is the biggest sporting scandal the nation has witnessed.
Moggi has been handed a lifetime ban.
While Buffon, Del Piero, Giorgio Chiellini, Pavel Nedved and David Trezeguet – all of global celebrities and one of the best of the era – decided to stay with Juve in the next branch, a number of big-name players had been picked off by Europes elite clubs.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Patrick Vieira joined rivals Inter Milan to get a joint #23m, Fabio Cannavaro and Emerson moved to Real Madrid for a total of 13.7m, Lilian Thuram and Gianluca Zambrotta combined Barcelona for #13m, while Adrian Mutu moved into Fiorentina for #5.5m.
Juve lost only four of the 42 matches season, climbing towards the top return to Serie A in the very first effort and to become winners.
Theyll play with table-topping Inter Milan on Sunday (19:45 BST) at a game with an intriguing background after Juves decision this week to generate a fresh pitch into the Italian Olympic Committees Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport tribunal to strip Inter of their 2005-06 name.
Juventus completed top that year but had the exact name revoked. Second-placed AC Milan were docked points, meaning Inter were declared champions.
Giovannelli states Inter were granted thecardboard Scudetto and that they werenever punished for claims made against them in after decades. They deny any wrongdoing.
Beccantini adds:The rivalry between the two is very demanding and runs really deep. Inter didnt deserve the Scudetto of 2006.
Moggis defence lawyers found – a couple of decades after – telephone calls involving individuals at Inter and referee designators.
This didnt necessarily mean guilt . however, it could have been sufficient to avoid the awarding of this tournament to Inter.
Juventus doesnt request the Scudetto of Calciopoli to be returned. They only ask for it to be removed from Inter, who dont deserve it.
BBC Sport on 14 published details of the Calciopoli scandal within this article .
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