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...HOSPITALIZED. Gianluca Pessotto, 35, team manager of Italian football club Juventus, after falling 15 meters from a window at the club's headquarters in an apparent suicide attempt; in Turin. He had reportedly been suffering from depression. Formerly a defender with Juventus, Pessotto took up management duties in May in a bid to restore morale at the club amid corruption allegations. Juventus is among 30 defendants in a match-fixing trial that began in Rome last week; Pessotto's name has not been linked with the scandal...
...weeks ago he participated for the second time at the annual Bilderberg meeting, an invitation-only gathering of the international business and political élite. Elkann also got high marks for his firm - and unusually public - response to the recent match-fixing scandal consuming Italy's top football club, Juventus, which the Agnelli family has owned since 1923. At the team's first match after evidence emerged that Juventus' former general manager Luciano Moggi had allegedly pressured referees, Elkann gathered reporters at the stadium to gracefully, but clearly, voice his no-confidence in the then management. He has since named...
...RESIGNED. Franco Carraro, 66, Italian football federation president, amid a growing match-fixing scandal; in Rome. Carraro is under investigation along with some 40 other officials and referees and four Serie A football clubs, including Juventus and AC Milan. On May 4, Italian newspapers sparked the scandal by publishing telephone taps of Juventus director Luciano Moggi discussing referee assignments for club matches with a refereeing official. Juventus's board of directors, including Moggi, resigned en masse last week...
Nike also scooped up such world-class stars as Brazilians Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, British sensation Wayne Rooney and American Landon Donovan to wear the company's boots. It paid marquee European clubs--Manchester United and Arsenal in England, Juventus in Italy and FC Barcelona in Spain--to wear the Swoosh on their kits...
Last night Diego indulged his own young son, allowing him to stay up late to watch a Juventus match on the television in their cozy basement family room at the villa. Diego is tired today after a long weekend celebrating Filippo's birthday (three parties: one at the local pizzeria, one at the grandparents' and one at home) and keeping tabs on Fiorentina. Now it is on to Paris, where he is planning a presentation of the Vivier spring collection as well as introducing a new line of Tod's clothing that is the result of a collaboration with American...