Napoli have issued a formal denial of wrongdoing
Napoli have issued a formal denial of wrongdoing after the Serie A club were handed a two-point deduction by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) for a former player's involvement in match-fixing.
Former Azzurri goalkeeper Matteo Gianello confessed to attempting to fix a game between the Azzurri and
Sampdoria
in 2010, bringing a hefty punishment on his former employers on Tuesday morning.
Club captain
Paolo Cannavaro and fellow defender Gianluca Grava were given six-month bans for failing to report their knowledge of Gianello's actions.
Napoli - and the two players - deny any wrongdoing and the club has also complained about the timing of the punishment, which they are expected to appeal through the FIGC's justice court.
A statement on sscnapoli.it read: "The president Aurelio de Laurentiis, the head coach Walter Mazzarri and the whole team are calm, being confident that no violation could be attributed to Napoli.
"While not entering into the obsolete and outdated principle of objective responsibility, and reserving any comments on legal action for the appropriate forums, Napoli does not agree with the decisions of the National Disciplinary Committee, considering that they should not be able to irretrievably alter championships that are already in progress.
"Any decision must be made before the start of a tournament or at the end of it. There has been enough time to evaluate and make a decision since the 2009-10 season.
"We are confident that true justice can be applied to the separate decisions, based on law and equity, not on Justicialism (a theory of government involving government intervention)."
The separate punishments come as a serious blow to Napoli's ambitions of catching Serie A leaders
Juventus.An indifferent run of form saw Mazzarri's men slip to third place and eight points behind Juve, with the deduction dropping the club to fifth place behind
Inter Milan, Lazio and
Fiorentina.Gianello, now a free agent, has been suspended from football for 39 months for his role in what has been called the 'Calcioscommesse' scandal.
Napoli, Cannavaro and Grava are likely to appeal the hefty sanctions through the FIGC before approaching the TNAS tribunal court in Rome should they be unsuccessful.
http://www1.skysports.com/news/11095/8340919/ 意大利足協對拿玻裡打假波的控訴作出判決，拿玻裡即時被扣除兩分，而隊長保羅簡拿華路 (Paolo Cannavaro) 及副隊長加華 (Gianluca Grava) 將被罰停賽六個月，足協同時對拿玻裡俱樂部罰款 70000 歐元。
這支意甲爭標分子被指控捲入前門將加裡亞路的假波醜聞，加裡亞路承認試圖在 2010 年 5 月對陣森多利亞的比賽中賄賂陣中兩名的後防大將，該場比賽拿玻裡以一球落敗，而森多利亞因此鎖定第四名，獲得歐聯的參賽資格。消息指，保羅簡拿華路及加華都拒絕參與，兩人都堅持他們對加裡亞路的意圖並不知情，但最後還是因知情不報被判罰停賽半年。而始作俑者加裡亞路目前沒有效力任何球隊，他被禁賽三年零三個月。
鑒於當時加裡亞路事發時效力拿玻裡，意大利足協決定所屬球隊同樣需對捲入假波醜聞負責，扣分後的拿玻裡由第三位趺至第五位。拿玻裡立即表示不服上訴。
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