1980 Totonero
Scandal of football match fixing in Italy in 1980 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1980 scandal. For the 1986 scandal, see 1986 Totonero.
Totonero 1980 or Totonero was a match-fixing scandal in Italy in 1980 in Serie A and Serie B. The participants in this scandal were Avellino, Bologna, Lazio, Milan, and Perugia of Serie A and Palermo and Taranto of Serie B, all of whom were declared guilty after the trials.[1] Notably, Paolo Rossi was suspended for three years (reduced to two on appeal),[2] and upon his return helped Italy in their successful 1982 FIFA World Cup campaign.[3]