Italy hands out point deductions and five-year bans to match-fixers

Mario Cassano_20-06-12

By Andrew Warshaw

June 20 – Italy may have progressed to the last eight of the 2012 European Championship but off the field the image of the game has taken another damaging blow after the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) announced it had upheld newly promoted Pescara’s two-point deduction and banned four players for five years over the country’s match-fixing scandal.

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