Thursday, July 23, 2020

Calcopoli Scandal


During this period, the club was involved in the Calciopoli scandal. In this scandal were accused five teams of selecting favourable referees to fix the matches . There was an investigation from the police of Milan menagers, and the team was excluded from this scandal. However , the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) decided that it had enough evidence to charge Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani . Ac Milan was punished with a reduce of 15 points  and was banned from the 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League. After reconsidering this punishmend the penalty reduced to eight points and the team returned to Champions League participation .

After these 5 teams get punished , local rivals Internazionale takes advantage and dominated Seria A, winning for the fourth time the Scudetto . However, after signing with top players such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Robinho and Alexandro Pato , il Milan won the Scudetto again in the 2010-2011 season.

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