Along with Nedvěd, other former officials of the Old Lady were also punished. Former chairman Andrea Agnelli and former chief executive Maurizio Arrivabene have been banned for two years by the sports tribunal. Former Juventus sporting director Fabio Paratici received the highest penalty for falsifying transfer accounting. The current official of the London Tottenham is not allowed to work in football for two and a half years.
The management of Juventus has been accused of taking illegal commissions from the transfers of footballers between 2018 and 2020 and showing false profits to investors. The club faced the same accusation last year, but was acquitted.
Juventus are now tenth in Serie A after the ruling 😬
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He denied wrongdoing even now, but in November the entire board of directors, including Agnelli and the former captain of the Czech national team, Nedvěd, was terminated. Juventus did not state the reason, however, according to the media, it was involvement in the accounting falsification affair.
In the end, Juventus received harsher punishments from the tribunal than union officials wanted. They demanded the deduction of nine points and for the long-time support of the club Nedvěda a suspension for one year and for Agnelli for sixteen months, for Paratici then for twenty.
Before the punishment, Juventus was in third place with 37 points, ten points behind leaders Napoli. After reading, it drops to eleventh place, with the same points gain as Bologna and Empoli.
| Business card of former vice president of Juventus Pavel Nedvěd |
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| – “Grande Paolo”, as this blond midfielder with a hard shot was nicknamed during his playing career, made a significant mark in the history of domestic and world football. He led his teams to a number of successes, he himself can boast of many individual trophies, led by the prestigious Golden Ball, which he won in 2003 as the second Czech after Josef Masopust. In addition to silver and bronze from the European Championship and victories in the Cup Winners’ Cup and the Super Cup, he also contributed to six league titles. And he lost two more titles due to the corruption scandal in which Juventus Turin got involved. |
| – He started with football in Skalná near Cheb, then went to Sparta Prague via his native Cheb, Pilsen and Dukla. From there, he made his way into the national team at the age of 22, making his debut in the national team in June 1994. |
| – In 1996, at the EC in England, he was already one of the mainstays of the team, which in the end surprisingly won the European silver. Third place at the 1997 FIFA Cup or semi-final participation at the European Championship 2004 in Portugal also bore Nedvěd’s distinctive handwriting. After that, he initially said goodbye to the national team, but after a one-year break he returned and helped win participation in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, where he was among the best players of the Czech team, which, however, did not advance to the basic group. The representative career of the long-time captain came to a definitive end in August 2006 in the match against Serbia, which was his 91st match in the Czech jersey. During 12 years, he played at three European Championships and one World Cup, scoring a total of eighteen times for the national team. |
| – Nedvěd scored goals even after transferring from Sparta to Lazio Rome, from where he left in 2001 for the record sum of Czech football, 1.6 billion crowns, to Juventus. He ended up spending eight seasons there, despite the fact that in 2006 the famous team was relegated to the second league due to participation in a corruption scandal, and big clubs all over Europe sought Nedvěd’s services. |
| – The best Czech athlete of 2003 finally hung up his football boots after the 2008/09 season. “I gave my football career everything that was in me. There is no reason to look back and ponder what if,” he forcefully ended speculation about a possible continuation. Instead of football, he could devote himself to his other hobbies, which include golf and tennis. |
| – From October 2010, Nedvěd participated in the running of Juventus as a member of the management, five years later he was appointed vice president. From 2021, the management of Juventus, including Nedvěd, faces accusations that between 2018 and 2020 they took illegal commissions from the transfers of footballers and showed false profits to investors. According to investigators, Juventus, Napoli, Genoa, Empoli, Parma and other clubs artificially inflated transfer fees for players to improve their accounting for capital gains. Last April, the Italian court acquitted Nedvěd and all other actors in the case of alleged accounting falsification. But in November, the entire board of directors of the club resigned, including Nedvěd and chairman Andrea Agnelli. Today, the sports tribunal granted Nedvěd an eight-month ban from football for the financial fraud of the Torino team during player transfers. In addition, the club lost 15 points in the ongoing season of Serie A. |
| – He was born on August 30, 1972 in Cheb. He has been divorced since 2021, with his ex-wife Ivana he has a daughter Ivana and a son Pavle. Currently, Nedvěd is a couple with Slovak singer Dara Rollins. |
| – He is a four-time winner of the domestic Footballer of the Year poll and a six-time winner of the Czech version of the Golden Ball. He is a member of the National Sports Council within the National Sports Agency. |
The club can appeal against the punishment to the highest sports court at the Italian Olympic Committee.
Juventus does not have similar problems for the first time. In 2006, he was punished for his participation in a large-scale corruption scandal by being reassigned to the second league, which he also started with a deduction of 17 points. He also lost two titles from 2005 and 2006.
Capital gain is said: In economic language, an increase in value, a positive difference between two values of the same asset referring to different moments.
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— Claudio Marchisio (@ClaMarchisio8) January 20, 2023
However, despite the readout, Juventus were able to immediately return to the top flight. The 2003 Ballon d’Or winner Nedvěd helped him to progress from Serie B, who, like for example Alessandro Del Piero or Gianluigi Buffon, remained at the club even after the administrative relegation.
