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‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

theguardian.com

O n 20 January this year, the Italian football association shocked fans throughout the world by docking 15 points from its most iconic club, Juventus, in the middle of the season.

Juventus suddenly dropped seven places in the Serie A table. The club was accused of falsely inflating the value of players in transfer dealings and, in a separate case, of lying to shareholders.

The Italian football association (FIGC) accused Juventus of “repeated violations of the principle of truth”. In a country renowned for provincialism, Juventus is a uniquely national team.

Based in the northern city of Turin, it has about 8 million supporters, far more than its nearest rivals AC Milan and Inter Milan.

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