The Musings of Rachel

Italy’s Domenico Criscito has vowed to clear his name after being implicated in the ‘Scommessopoli’ match-fixing scandal.

Police issued the defender with a warrant from the public prosecutor of Cremona to search his room at the Azzurri’s training base at Coverciano on Monday and he was subsequently withdrawn from Cesare Prandelli’s provisional panel for Euro 2012.

There is reportedly some suspicion surrounding the outcome of a game involving Criscito’s former club Genoa and Lazio, and photographs have emerged of the left back meeting Rossoblu supporters with fellow defender Giuseppe Sculli, who has also been implicated in the affair.

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Domenico Criscito was on Monday dropped from Italy’s Euro 2012 squad after his room at the side’s training camp was searched by police as part of a match-fixing probe that also saw Lazio captainStefano Mauri arrested.

Italian football federation vice-president Demetrio Albertini said the decision was taken jointly by the association and national team coach Cesare Prandelli, despite prosecutors insisting that Criscito was not charged and was free to play.

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(Source: Yahoo!)

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence Monday and made more than a dozen arrests, including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri, elsewhere as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in soccer.

The Italian soccer federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested.

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(Source: Yahoo!)

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