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...team supporters injured in subsequent rioting. Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year-old fan of the Rome-based team Lazio, was shot through the neck Sunday by a highway police officer at a Tuscan branch of the Autogrill restaurant chain after a brawl erupted between their fans and the Juventus supporters who'd crossed paths on their way to their respective teams' road games in different cities. The bad news about the shocking incident is that no one is truly shocked...
...plummeted. Though a powerhouse on the field - its teams were champions of Europe four times between 1977 and 1984 - Liverpool's fans had a reputation for being a dangerous disgrace. When some of them rioted at the 1985 European final in Brussels, 38 fans of the Italian team Juventus were killed. It would be five years before English teams were allowed to play again in European competitions. Back home, aging stadiums offered neither comfort nor safety; in 1989, 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death on an over-crowded terrace at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Financially, too, the game...
...Germany, as a referee scandal consumed many of Italy's top league teams. Wire-tapped phone calls revealed that team officials orchestrated referee selection, and everyone from league bosses to politicians to television commentators had a foot in the alleged "system" of influence. The controversy eventually forced Juventus - the New York Yankees of Italian soccer - down to the second division and stripped them of the last two league titles...
...Historically, top Italian political and industrial figures have played central roles in the sport, including the Agnelli family that owns automaker Fiat and Juventus, and billionaire former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who owns AC Milan. Smaller teams are often owned by top local business figures, who usually lose money to satisfy their sporting passion. But soccer's reach extends across the entire spectrum of Italian life. Following the initial outrage of the officer's death, La Repubblica columnist Giuseppe D'Avanzo put it this way: "If you don't want to break the toy that creates an appetizing consensus...
...RELEGATED. Juventus, Lazio and Fiorentina, three top Italian football clubs, to the second division for their part in a national match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Turin's Juventus was also stripped of its last two championship titles, and had 30 points deducted for the forthcoming season. Rival AC Milan, also implicated in the scandal, will remain in the first division, but faces a 15-point handicap and expulsion from Europe's lucrative Champions League competition. All four clubs are expected to appeal...