Editing Gianni Agnelli (section)

=== Juventus F.C. ===
==== 1940s–1990s ====
[[File:Juventus FC - 1972 - Gianni Agnelli, Cuccureddu, Marchetti, Zoff, Altafini and Anastasi.jpg|thumb|left|From left to right: Agnelli, investor and former chairman of [[Juventus]], talks with some squad's footballers ([[Antonello Cuccureddu]], [[Gianpietro Marchetti]], [[Dino Zoff]], [[José Altafini]], and [[Pietro Anastasi]]) at [[Villar Perosa]] in the summer of 1972.]]
The figure of Agnelli was intimately linked to the [[history of Juventus]], the [[association football]] team of Turin of which he was appointed president from 1947 to 1954. His activity had an impact within the club similar to that of his father, [[Edoardo Agnelli (entrepreneur, born 1892)|Edoardo Agnelli]], twenty years earlier, acquiring important players, such as [[Giampiero Boniperti]], [[John Hansen (footballer, born 1924)|John Hansen]], and [[Karl Aage Præst]], who were decisive for the conquest of two [[Serie A]] leagues in 1950 and 1952, the first won by the club in fifteen years.<ref name="UEFA 2003"/><ref name="Beccantini 2004"/> Agnelli also had an impact on the transformation at the corporate level during his management from a private club belonging to the rival car manufacturer [[Cisitalia]], chaired by [[Piero Dusio]], to an independent company with private capital with limited liability that achieved further successes.<ref>{{cite web|last=Borioni|first=Luca|date=26 April 2016|url=https://www.calciomercato.com/news/juve-campione-la-dinastia-agnelli-930263|title=Juve campione: la dinastia Agnelli|website=Calciomercato.com|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref>

After his activity as president of the club, Agnelli remained linked to Juventus by carrying out various management activities as honorary president, with which he was able to maintain his influence on the club until 1994, the year in which he handed over these activities to his brother Umberto. Agnelli led Juventus to ten [[Italian football champion]] titles, four [[Italy Cup]]s, one [[Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)|Intercontinental Cup]], one [[European Cup]], one [[Cup Winners' Cup]], three [[UEFA Cup]]s, and one [[UEFA Super Cup]], for a total of 23 official trophies in 48 years, which made him one of the most important personalities in sports history.<ref name="UEFA 2003"/><ref name="Beccantini 2004"/> He daily called at 6 am Boniperti, such as when he convinced him to become Juventus chairman in 1971,<ref name="Monti 2003">{{cite news|last=Monti|first=Fabio|date=25 January 2003|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/gennaio/25/Boniperti_Avrebbe_voluto_anche_Pele_co_0_0301252511.shtml|url-status=dead|title=Boniperti: 'Avrebbe voluto anche Pelé e Maradona'|work={{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}|language=it|page=21|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604200437/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/gennaio/25/Boniperti_Avrebbe_voluto_anche_Pele_co_0_0301252511.shtml|archive-date=4 June 2012|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> and Juventus players to see how they were doing.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dampf|first=Andrew|date=19 April 2021|url=https://apnews.com/article/europe-international-soccer-soccer-sports-europe-serie-a-9766130ae6d830ba88f8dfdd6a88d8a9|title='A snake': Agnelli's cut-throat soccer politics cause uproar|work=AP News|access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref>

Agnelli liked footballers like [[Stanley Matthews]] and [[Garrincha]], as well as [[Pelé]], [[Diego Armando Maradona]], [[Johan Cruijff]], and [[Alfredo Di Stéfano]], whom his club tried to sign.<ref name="Monti 2003"/> In 1958, Agnelli sought to purchase Pelé through Fiat's shares.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://sport.repubblica.it/news/sport/calcio-pele-agnelli-mi-voleva-alla-juventus/529358|title=Calcio, Pelé: Agnelli mi voleva alla Juventus|work={{Lang|it|La Repubblica}}|language=it|date=18 May 2004|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> In a dinner in 1962, [[Santos F.C.]] was offered one million for Pelé by Umberto.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tuttosport.com/news/calcio/2022/12/29-101618421/pele_e_la_juventus_il_retroscena_di_o_rei_umberto_agnelli_e_l_offerta_al_santos_|title=Pelè e la Juventus, il retroscena di O Rei: 'Umberto Agnelli e l'offerta al Santos'|work=Tuttosport|language=it|date=29 December 2022|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> In 1962, he sent Boniperti to Chile to sign Pelé with an offer of one hundred million, which the [[Brazilian Football Federation]] did not authorise for the transfer.<ref name="Monti 2003"/> He was instrumental in signing [[Michel Platini]], of whom he said: "We bought him for a piece of bread and he's put foie gras on top of it."<ref name="Bocconi 2021">{{cite news|last=Bocconi|first=Sergio|date=11 March 2021|url=https://www.corriere.it/economia/finanza/cards/fiat-juventus-ferrari-ed-europa-venti-frasi-famose-dell-avvocato-agnelli/italiani-mondo-prima-europei-italia.shtml|title=Gianni Agnelli, le 20 frasi celebri dell'Avvocato (su Fiat, Juventus, Ferrari ed Europa...)|work={{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> He gave several notable nicknames to footballers, such [[Zbigniew Boniek]] (''bello di notte'', or "Beauty at night", which is a play on the title of [[Luis Buñuel]]'s movie ''[[Belle de Jour (film)|Belle de Jour]]''), [[Roberto Baggio]] (''Raffaello'', after an Italian Renaissance painter, best known as [[Raphael]]), and [[Alessandro Del Piero]] (''Pinturicchio'', after the nickname of another Italian Renaissance painter, [[Bernardino di Betto]]), and <ref>{{cite news|last=Lanari|first=Massimo|date=24 January 2023|url=https://www.rainews.it/tgr/piemonte/video/2023/01/gianni-agnelli-frasi-062e00a5-63de-4d1e-aba8-03d1e7e67cfb.html|title=Gianni Agnelli, le frasi celebri e quell'amore per la Juve|publisher=RAI|language=it|access-date=11 February 2023}}</ref> Ahead of the [[1996 UEFA Champions League final]] won by Juventus against [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]], he said: "If they are a team of Flemish painters, we will be tough Piedmontese."<ref name="Sereni 2021">{{cite news|last=Sereni|first=Andrea|date=12 March 2021|url=https://www.corriere.it/sport/cards/gianni-agnelli-100-anni-fa-nasceva-l-avvocato-juve-ferrari-sport-frasi-soprannomi-piu-belli/amore-lo-sport_principale.shtml|title=Gianni Agnelli, 100 anni fa nasceva l'Avvocato: la Juve, la Ferrari e lo sport nelle frasi (e nei soprannomi) più belli|work={{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}|language=it|access-date=11 February 2023}}</ref> His grandson, [[John Elkann]], as well as his nephew, [[Andrea Agnelli]], followed his footsteps at Juventus.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sport.sky.it/calcio/serie-a/2023/01/27/juventus-elkann-intervista|title=Juventus, Elkann: 'Non voglio cedere la società, era la passione di mio nonno Gianni'|website=Sky Sport Italia|language=it|date=27 January 2023|access-date=11 February 2023}}</ref>

==== 1990s–2000s ====
In 1999, Juventus improved their own record of having won all five major [[UEFA competitions]] by winning the [[Intertoto Cup]], the next year was voted the seventh best of the [[FIFA Club of the Century]] and in 2009 was placed by the [[International Federation of Football History & Statistics]] second in the European best club of the 20th-century ranking, the highest position for an Italian club in both; by the early 2000s, the club had the third best revenue in Europe at over €200 million. This all changed when, three years after his death, ''[[Calciopoli]]'' controversially hit the club,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cambiaghi|first1=Emilio|last2=Dent|first2=Arthur|date=15 April 2010|url=http://download.ju29ro.com/il_processo_illecito.pdf|title=Il processo illecito|edition=1st|publisher=Stampa Indipendente|pages=9–10|access-date=24 January 2023|via=Ju29ro|quote=The Juventus defence, among other things, objects that a sum of several Articles 1 (unfair and dishonest sporting conduct) cannot lead to an indictment for Article 6 (sporting offence), using for example the metaphor that so many defamations do not carry a murder conviction: an unimpeachable objection. ... Hence the grotesque concept of 'standings altered without any match-fixing'. The 'Calciopoli' rulings state that there is no match-fixing. That the league under investigation, 2004–2005, is to be considered regular. However, the Juventus management has achieved effective standings advantages for Juventus FC even without altering the individual matches. In practice, Juventus was convicted of murder, with no one dead, no evidence, no accomplices, no murder weapon. Only for the presence of a hypothetical motive.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Garganese|first=Carlo|date=17 June 2011|url=http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2011/06/17/2535702/revealed-the-evidence-that-shows-luciano-moggi-is-the-victim|title=Revealed: The Calciopoli evidence that shows Luciano Moggi is the victim of a witch-hunt|website=Goal.com|access-date=23 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ingram|first=Sam|date=20 December 2021|url=https://zicoball.com/calciopoli-when-referee-designators-were-the-most-desired-pawns/|title=Calciopoli Scandal: Referee Designators As Desired Pawns|website=ZicoBall|access-date=24 January 2023|quote=FIGC's actions in relegating Juventus and handing the title to Inter Milan were somewhat peculiar. Of course, Moggi and Juventus deserved punishment; that is not up for dispute. However, the severity of the ruling and the new location for the Scudetto was unprecedented and arguably should never have happened. The final ruling in the Calciopoli years later judged that Juventus had never breached Article 6. As a result, the Serie A champions should never have encountered a shock 1–1 draw away to Rimini in the season's curtain-raiser. Nor should they have trounced Piacenza 4–0 in Turin or handed a 5–1 thrashing away to Arezzo in Tuscany. The findings stated that some club officials had violated Article 6, but none had originated from Juventus. FIGC created a structured article violation with their decision-making. This means that instead of finding an Article 6 breach, several Article 1 violations were pieced together to create evidence damning to warrant relegation from Italy's top flight. Article 1 violations in Italian football usually command fines, bans, or points deductions, but certainly not relegation.}}</ref> which was demoted to [[Serie B]] for the first time in its history despite the club being acquitted and the leagues were ruled to be regular;<ref>{{cite web|last=Beha|first=Oliviero|date=7 February 2012|url=http://notizie.tiscali.it/opinioni/Beha/2535/articoli/Il-caso-Moggi-e-le-colpe-della-stampa-non-fa-inchieste-di-pende-dai-verbali-non-sa-leggere-le-sentenze-e-non-avvicina-fatti-e-notizie-per-approfondire-l-analisi-Vi-basta.html|url-status=dead|title=Il 'caso Moggi' e le colpe della stampa: non fa inchieste, (di)pende dai verbali, non sa leggere le sentenze|website=Tiscali|language=it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312224520/http://notizie.tiscali.it/opinioni/Beha/2535/articoli/Il-caso-Moggi-e-le-colpe-della-stampa-non-fa-inchieste-di-pende-dai-verbali-non-sa-leggere-le-sentenze-e-non-avvicina-fatti-e-notizie-per-approfondire-l-analisi-Vi-basta.html|archive-date=12 March 2012|access-date=24 January 2023|quote=... the motivations in 558 pages are summarized as follows. 1) Leagues not altered (therefore leagues unjustly taken away from Juve...), matches not fixed, referees not corrupted, investigations conducted incorrectly by the investigators of the Public Prosecutor's Office (interceptions of the ''Carabinieri'' which were even manipulated in the confrontation in the Chamber). 2) The SIM cards, the foreign telephone cards that Moggi has distributed to some referees and designators, would be proof of the attempt to alter and condition the system, even without the effective demonstration of the rigged result. 3) Moggi's attitude, like a real 'telephone' boss, is invasive even when he tries to influence the [Italian Football Federation] and the national team, see the phone calls with Carraro and Lippi. 4) That these phone calls and this 'mafia' or 'sub-mafia' promiscuity aimed at 'creating criminal associations' turned out to be common practice in the environment as is evident, does not acquit Moggi and C.: and therefore here is the sentence. ... Finally point 1), the so-called positive part of the motivations, that is, in fact everything is regular. And then the scandal of 'Scommettopoli' [the Italian football scandal of 2011] in which it's coming out that the 2010–2011 league [won by Milan] as a whole with tricks is to be considered really and decidedly irregular? The Chief Prosecutor of Cremona, Di Martino, says so for now, while sports justice takes its time as always, but I fear that many will soon repeat it, unless everything is silenced. With all due respect to those who want the truth and think that Moggi has objectively become the 'scapegoat'. Does the framework of information that does not investigate, analyse, compare, and take sides out of ignorance or bias seem slightly clearer to you?}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Rossini|first=Claudio|date=5 March 2014|url=https://it.blastingnews.com/opinioni/2014/03/calciopoli-e-la-verita-di-comodo-0070692.html|title=Calciopoli e la verità di comodo|website=Blasting News|language=it|access-date=24 January 2023|quote=Juventus have been acquitted, the offending leagues (2004/2005 and 2005/2006) have been declared regular, and the reasons for the conviction of Luciano Moggi are vague; mostly, they condemn his position, that he was in a position to commit a crime. In short, be careful to enter a shop without surveillance because even if you don't steal, you would have had the opportunity. And go on to explain to your friends that you're honest people after the morbid and pro-sales campaign of the newspapers. ... a club has been acquitted, and no one has heard of it, and whoever has heard of it, they don't accept it. The verdict of 2006, made in a hurry, was acceptable, that of Naples was not. The problem then lies not so much in vulgar journalism as in readers who accept the truths that are convenient. Juventus was, rightly or wrongly, the best justification for the failures of others, and it was in popular sentiment, as evidenced by the new controversies concerning 'The System.' But how? Wasn't the rotten erased? The referees since 2006 make mistakes in good faith, the word of Massimo Moratti (the only 'honest'). ... it isn't a question of tifo, but of a critical spirit, of the desire to deepen and not be satisfied with the headlines (as did Oliviero Beha, a well-known Viola [Fiorentina] fan, who, however, drew conclusions outside the chorus because, despite enjoying it as a tifoso, he suffered as a journalist. He wasn't satisfied and went into depth. He was one of the few).}}</ref> it was his nephew, [[Andrea Agnelli]], who built the club back up in the 2010s.<ref name="Affaritaliani.it 2022">{{cite web|url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/cronache/juventus-fiat-calciopoli-cr7-la-guerra-tra-andrea-agnelli-john-ellkann-825398.html|title=Juventus: Fiat, Calciopoli e CR7, che guerra tra Andrea Agnelli e John Ellkann|website=Affaritaliani.it|language=it|date=12 November 2022|access-date=13 February 2023}}</ref> When Agnelli died in 2003, Juventus had won the [[2001–02 Serie A]] at the last matchday,<ref>{{cite web|last=Quadarella|first=Francesco|date=28 December 2018|url=https://catenaccioecontropiede.it/5-maggio-2002/|title=Ei fu, siccome immobile, dato il gol della Lazio|website=Catenaccio e Contropiede|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023|archive-date=30 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730044108/https://catenaccioecontropiede.it/5-maggio-2002/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Mocciaro|first=Gaetano|date=5 May 2019|url=https://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/accadde-oggi/5-maggio-2002-l-inter-perde-lo-scudetto-all-ultima-curva-juve-campione-1107620|title=5 maggio 2002, l'Inter perde lo scudetto all'ultima curva. Juve campione|website=TuttoMercatoWeb|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Morrone|first=Daniel V.|date=5 May 2020|url=https://www.ultimouomo.com/cinque-maggio-lazio-inter-2002/|title=Il cinque maggio|website=L'Ultimo Uomo|language=it|publisher=Sky Sport Italia|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> and a few months after his death had reached the [[2003 UEFA Champions League final]], the club's four [[UEFA Champions League]] final in seven years, three of which were achieved consecutively; those in 1997, against [[Borussia Dortmund]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Censoni|first=Mattia|date=27 May 2020|url=https://tribuna.com/it/news/juventus-2020-05-27-uno-schiaffo-in-faccia-a-tutti-gli-antijuventini-altro-che-favoriti-lelenco-dei-10-furti-/|title=Uno schiaffo in faccia a tutti gli antijuventini! Altro che favoriti: l'elenco dei 10 'furti' storici subiti dai bianconeri|website=Tribuna.com|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Barillà|first=Carmelo|date=27 May 2020|url=https://www.calcioweb.eu/2020/05/28-maggio-1997-borussia-dortmund-juventus-3-1-finale-maledetta-legni-gol-annullati-rigori-negati/10419810/|title=Borussia Dortmund-Juventus, finale maledetta: i bianconeri soccombono tra legni, gol annullati e rigori negati|website=CalcioWeb|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> and in 1998, against [[Real Madrid]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2020/05/20/5ec543a9268e3e04528b45fd.html|title=Lippi: Mijatovic's goal in 1998 Champions League final was definitely offside|work=Marca|date=20 May 2020|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> were lost out controversially.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tuttosport.com/news/calcio/2016/03/17-9543164/gli_arbitri_buttano_fuori_la_juventus_moviola_in_campo_subito_|title=Gli arbitri buttano fuori la Juventus: moviola in campo subito!|work=Tuttosport|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> In the words of Fulvio Bianchi, early 2000s Juventus were "stronger than all those that came after, and had €250 million in revenue, being at the top of Europe, and 100 sponsors. It took ten years to recover and return to the top Italians, not yet Europeans: now the club makes over €300 million, but in the meantime Real, Bayern, and the others have taken off."<ref>{{cite web|last=Vignati|first=Alessandro|date=17 July 2016|url=https://www.tuttojuve.com/calciopoli/fulvio-bianchi-la-juve-e-la-figc-e-quello-scudetto-del-2006-318350|title=Fulvio Bianchi: 'La Juve e la Figc e quello Scudetto del 2006...'|website=TuttoMercatoWeb|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref>

Some observers allege that ''Calciopoli'' and its aftermath were a dispute within Juventus and between the club's owners that came after the deaths of Gianni and [[Umberto Agnelli]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cambiaghi|first1=Emilio|last2=Dent|first2=Arthur|date=15 April 2010|url=http://download.ju29ro.com/il_processo_illecito.pdf|title=Il processo illecito|edition=1st|publisher=Stampa Indipendente|pages=48–49|access-date=26 February 2023|via=Ju29ro|quote=[p. 48] Corrado De Biase, the head of the investigations office at the time of the [1980s] betting scandal from 1980, ... about Juventus and the work of Zaccone, its lawyer: 'I can't know why the Juventus owners has moved in a certain way, but I would say, 99%, that the affair was skilfully managed by the leaders of the Turin club, starting with the request from Zaccone, who left everyone stunned. Zaccone isn't incompetent, as many believe, but he was only an actor in this story.' ... The point that makes me think that Zaccone acted on input from the owners is another, namely the way in which the top management of Juventus moved, with that fake appeal to the TAR. How, I wonder, you dismiss the directors, practically pleading guilty, then you watch inert and impassive a media and judicial destruction against your club and then you're threatening to resort to the TAR? It's the concept of closing the barn when the oxen have fled, if you think about it. ... [p. 50] I, on my own, can only reiterate the concept already expressed: a penalty of 8/10 points, a fine, and a ban of Moggi and Giraudo for 10/12 months, this was the appropriate penalty in my opinion. Any parallel with the story of 1980 is unthinkable: here there're no traces of offence, nor of money or checks. The environmental offence isn't a crime covered by any code, unless we're talking about air pollution.'}}</ref> including [[Franzo Grande Stevens]], who was nicknamed by Agnelli "the lawyer's lawyer", and [[Gianluigi Gabetti]] who favoured Agnelli's grandson, [[John Elkann]], over his nephew as chairman,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/la-stampa-in-english/2019/05/15/news/gianluigi-gabetti-financial-advisor-to-the-agnelli-family-dies-at-94-1.33702169/|title=Gianluigi Gabetti, financial advisor to the Agnelli family, dies at 94|work={{Lang|it|La Stampa}}|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> and wanted to get rid of [[Luciano Moggi]], Antonio Giraudo,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2008/10/31/processo-calciopoli-il-verdetto-non-assolve.html|title=Processo a Calciopoli, il verdetto non assolve|work={{Lang|it|La Repubblica}}|language=it|date=31 October 2008|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ju29ro.com/tutto-juve/1895-elkann-zaccone-montezemolo-spiegate|title=Elkann, Zaccone, Montezemolo: spiegate|website=Ju29ro|language=it|date=7 April 2010|access-date=21 February 2023}}</ref> and [[Roberto Bettega]], whose shares in the club increased.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coccia|first=Pasquale|date=18 January 2020|url=https://ilmanifesto.it/il-contado-tifa-per-la-zebra|title=Il contado tifa per la zebra|work=Il manifesto|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023|quote=De Luna: We consulted the company financial statements, and noted the escalation of the emoluments that Moggi, Giraudo, and Bettega received. We don't have certain elements to be able to say that at that moment there was an attempt to take over Juventus, but those figures are impressive. Furthermore, there are some anomalies of the Agnellis which leave the door open to this type of hypothesis. The Calciopoli investigation was born out of a Turin investigation by the prosecutor Guariniello on the Juventus doping case, [in which] the interceptions of Moggi's conversations with the referees emerge. Guariniello sends the files to the boss Maddalena, and notes that there are no crimes from a criminal point of view, but perhaps from a sporting point of view. Maddalena keeps the files for three months, then sends them to the [Italian] Football Federation. This period lasts a little over a year. Do you really [want to believe] that Juve didn't know what was going on? I have the impression that the Agnelli family took advantage of this opportunity to stop an attempt to take over the Moggi-Giraudo-Bettega company.}}</ref> Whatever their intentions, it is argued they condemned Juventus: first when Carlo Zaccone, the club's lawyer,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tuttojuve.com/altre-notizie/l-avvocato-zaccone-tifo-toro-ma-ho-difeso-la-juve-in-calciopoli-mi-hanno-pagato-bene-529128|title=L'avvocato Zaccone: 'Tifo Toro, ma ho difeso la Juve in Calciopoli. Mi hanno pagato bene...'|work={{Lang|it|La Repubblica}}|date=19 September 2020|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023|via=TuttoMercatoWeb.com}}</ref> agreed for relegation to Serie B and point-deduction, when he made that statement because Juventus were the only club risking more than one-division relegation ([[Serie C]]), and he meant for Juventus (the sole club to be ultimately demoted) to have equal treatment with the other clubs;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goal.com/it/news/240/calciopoli/2010/04/06/1865770/calciopoli-anche-il-legale-bianconero-%C3%A8-possibilista-se-ci|title=Calciopoli, anche il legale bianconero è possibilista: 'Se ci sono novità e la Juve me lo chiede, riapriamo il processo'|website=Goal.com|date=6 April 2010|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> and then when [[Luca Cordero di Montezemolo]] retired the club's appeal to the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cambiaghi|first1=Emilio|last2=Dent|first2=Arthur|date=15 April 2010|url=http://download.ju29ro.com/il_processo_illecito.pdf|title=Il processo illecito|edition=1st|publisher=Stampa Indipendente|pages=48–49|access-date=26 February 2023|via=Ju29ro|quote='... [p. 48] First you let yourself be massacred without lifting a finger, you have the title disassigned, you have the calendars drawn up for the European championships and cups, and then you threaten to go to the TAR, trumpeting everything in the newspapers? It looks much like a political move to appease the wrath of the fans, I think. If Zaccone, who is a man of value and experience, would have had the mandate to avoid the disaster he would have moved in a different way, in the sense that he would have pointed out these 'anomalies' in the time between the trial and the announcement of the verdicts. That, in fact, was the right moment to threaten to appeal to the TAR, when the sentences had not yet been written, but had to be done ''in camera caritatis'', asking for a meeting with [p. 49] Ruperto, Sandulli, and Palazzi, and not in front of the journalists of ''La Gazzetta dello Sport''. ... Please note that I'm not discussing the high strategy of the forensic art, but the basic principles, the ABC of the profession, the things that are taught to the boys who come to the studio to do a traineeship: if you, the defence attorney, think you have weapons to play, you ask for a meeting with the judge and the public prosecution, in the period between the trial and the verdict, and point out that, if the response is judged too severe, you will use them. And here there were weapons in industrial quantities. Then, in the face of a ''fait accompli'', who takes the responsibility of stopping a machine that grinds billions of euros, so as to be the sixth industry in the country?'}}</ref> which could have cleared the club's name and avoid relegation, after [[FIFA]] threatened to suspend the [[FIGC]] from international play,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=376927&cc=5901|title=Juventus to appeal sentence despite FIFA threats|website=ESPN FC|date=24 August 2006|access-date=25 August 2006|archive-date=29 October 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029230754/http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=376927&cc=5901|url-status=dead}}</ref> a renounce for which then-FIFA president [[Sepp Blatter]] was thankful.<ref>{{cite web|last=Casula|first=Andrea|date=9 May 2007|url=http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=299625|url-status=dead|title=Looking 'Inter' Calciopoli – A Juve Fan Wants Justice|website=Goal.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070512234135/http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=299625|archive-date=12 May 2007|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Gregorace|first=Francesco|date=2 April 2014|url=https://www.calcioweb.eu/2014/04/calciopoli-tifosi-juventini-contro-cobolli-gigli-se-non-avesse-ritirato-ricorso/86286/|title=Calciopoli – Tifosi juventini contro Cobolli Gigli: se solo non avesse ritirato il ricorso...|website=CalcioWeb|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref>

Several observers, including former FIGC president [[Franco Carraro]], argue that had Agnelli been alive, things would have been done differently, as the club and its directors would have been defended properly, which could have avoided relegation and cleared the club's name much earlier than the [[Calciopoli trials]] of the 2010s. When ''[[Tangentopoli]]'' hit the country in the 1990s, Agnelli said: "My men must be defended to the last degree of judgement."<ref name="Affaritaliani.it 2022"/> Moggi, one of the two Juventus directors involved in the scandal, was nicknamed by Agnelli as "the king's groom, who must know all horse thieves".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2006/maggio/18/Ora_scopriremo_conti_all_estero_co_9_060518060.shtml|title=Ora scopriremo i conti all'estero|work={{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}|language=it|date=18 May 2006|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> Moggi discussed how "Agnelli said that because during my time it was full of sons of bitches. And he wanted an expert, one who could stand up to these here. For me it's a compliment."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://corrieredellosport.it/news/calcio/calciopoli/2016/04/28-11023737/moggi_rivela_galliani_fece_scoppiare_calciopoli_perch_berlusconi_mi_voleva_al_milan|title=Moggi rivela: 'Galliani fece scoppiare Calciopoli perché Berlusconi mi voleva al Milan'|work=Corriere dello Sport|language=it|date=28 April 2016|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> He added that ''Calciopoli'' only happened because "''l'Avvocato'' Agnelli and ''il Dottor'' Umberto died",<ref>{{cite news|last=Mensurati|first=Marco|date=27 March 2015|url=https://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/2015/03/27/news/la_cupola_del_calcio_secondo_carraro_lo_scudetto_del_98_falsato_per_la_juve_-110601382/|title=La Cupola del calcio secondo Carraro: 'Lo scudetto del '98 falsato per la Juve'|work={{Lang|it|La Repubblica}}|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}<!--See also https://www.calciomercato.com/news/calciopoli-carraro-il-campionato-97-98-fu-l-unico-falsato-a-favo-123018--></ref> and had the two Agnellis not died, "nothing [of this farce] would have happened."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ju29ro.com/news/5002-moggi-gianni-e-umberto-agnelli-non-avrebbero-permesso-la-farsa-di-calciopoli|title=Moggi: Gianni e Umberto Agnelli non avrebbero permesso la farsa di Calciopoli|website=Ju29ro.com|language=it|date=6 July 2013|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Biscotti|first=Giuseppe|date=9 March 2020|url=https://news.superscommesse.it/calcio/2020/03/moggi-calciopoli-una-farsa-la-juventus-dava-fastidio-perche-vinceva-troppo-393301/|title=Moggi: 'Calciopoli? Una farsa. La Juventus dava fastidio perché vinceva troppo'|website=SuperNews|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> According to observers, Juventus was weak after Agnelli's death, with Moggi saying: "The death of ''l'Avvocato'' Agnelli made us orphans and weak, it was easy to attack Juve and destroy them by making things up."<ref>{{cite web|last=Cardinali|first=Thomas|date=7 March 2020|url=https://www.giornalettismo.com/luciano-moggi-a-snaps-calciopoli-no-farsopoli/|title=Luciano Moggi a Snaps: 'Calciopoli? No, Farsopoli'|website=Giornalettismo|language=it|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://arenacalcio.it/2020/03/11/moggi-su-calciopoli-la-morte-dellavv-agnelli-ci-aveva-resi-orfani-e-deboli-facile-attaccare-la-juve-e-distruggerla-inventando-le-cose/|title=Moggi su Calciopoli: 'La morte dell'avv. Agnelli ci aveva resi orfani e deboli, facile attaccare la Juve e distruggerla inventando le cose'|website=Arena Calcio|language=it|date=11 March 2020|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref> According to critics, Juventus bothered because they won too much under Agnelli. Then-[[CONI]] president [[Gianni Petrucci]] said "a team that wins too much is harmful to their sport".<ref>{{cite web|last=Ciccù|first=Consolato|date=7 March 2020|url=https://www.calcioweb.eu/2020/03/moggi-facile-attaccare-juve-morte-agnelli-avevano-perche-vincevamo-troppo/10397418/|title=Moggi: 'Facile attaccare la Juve dopo la morte di Agnelli. Ce l'avevano con noi perché vincevamo troppo'|website=CalcioWeb|access-date=26 February 2023}}</ref>