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Juventus is punished with a loss of 10 points in the Italian Championship

Juventus was punished with the loss of 10 points in the Italian Championship, after reviewing the initial 15-point punishment for accounting fraud, which complicates the team's chances of competing in the next Champions League.

With this new decision by the Italian sports court, the Turin team drops from second to seventh place in Serie A, five points behind Milan, which closes the Champions League qualifying zone.

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Juve was punished on January 20th with the withdrawal of 15 points for having artificially reduced its losses by overpricing the sale of some players between 2018 and 2021.

In April, the club was unable to obtain a pure and simple annulment of the sanction, but convinced the judges of the Italian Olympic Committee's Guarantee College (Coni), the highest instance of sports justice in Italy, to return the case to the Italian Court of Appeal. FIGC to have it re-examined.

The College confirmed “a voluntary and repeated change to the accounting documents” on the part of Juventus, although it withdrew the punishment pending clarification regarding the involvement of some former club directors, such as former vice-president Pavel Nedved, who in the latter case hearing was acquitted.

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But the soap opera is not over yet, as Juventus can still appeal the sentence again, the final decision of which may only come after the end of the current season, on June 4th.

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