Origins
The scandal first came to light as a consequence of investigations of prosecutors on the Italian football agency GEA World. Transcripts of recorded telephone conversations published in Italian newspapers suggested that during the 2004–05 season, Juventus general managers Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo had conversations with several officials of Italian football to influence referee appointment.
The name Calciopoli (which could be translated as "Footballville") is an ironic adaptation of Tangentopoli ("Bribesville"), which is the name that was given to some corruption-based clientelism during the Mani Pulite investigation in the early 1990s.
Calciopoli is also known as Moggiopoli, after the name of Luciano Moggi, or Calciogate, a pun on Watergate, though these terms are less frequently used.
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