Allemandi Case

, Juventus fullback featured in the scandal The affair revolves around a combination orchestrated by Guido Nani, Torino's auditor as well as a personal friend of Granata president Enrico Marone Cinzano, and Francesco Gaudioso, a Sicilian student at the Polytechnic University in the Piedmontese capital who was on good terms with several Juventus players, including in particular promising fullback Luigi Allemandi; Gaudioso and Allemandi were both staying at a guesthouse in Piazzetta Madonna degli Angeli. According to the chronicle of the time, Dr. Nani agreed with Gaudioso for the latter to hijack in favor of the “Toro” the result of the Derby della Mole (Torino-Juventus) scheduled for June 5, 1927, in exchange for 35,000 liras to be distributed to the people involved in the scam; 25,000 liras were given in advance to the student, while the remaining 10,000 liras agreed upon would be delivered after the Granata won the scudetto (before the indicted match, Torino was leading the standings with 10 points and followed by both Bologna and Juventus). The derby ended with a 2 to 1 comeback victory for Torino (Allemandi, although defeated, was reported among the best players on the field) and about a month later, on July 3, the “Toro” became champions of Italy; For unclear reasons, however, Nani allegedly refused to pay the remaining 10,000 lire; Having sniffed out the scoop, Ferminelli, who was moreover on bad terms with Torino (since the Granata club had not granted him for a quid pro quo the season's accreditation for matches at the Filadelfia Stadium), According to the reporter, Marone Cinzano was also implicated in the misdeed as the author of a telegram addressed to Nani with the mysterious meaning, "Suspend parcel delivery." ==The judicial proceedings==

The sports process The report triggered an investigation by the Italian Football Federation in September. At that time, at the head of the FIGC was Leandro Arpinati, a Fascist hierarch as well as podestà of the city of Bologna (which became the headquarters of the Federation in 1926 by the will of the president himself), who was assisted by the secretary general Giuseppe Zanetti. The first witness was Ferminelli himself, who explained that Gaudioso had told him that the players involved in the affaire were Juventus players Federico Munerati and Piero Pastore, who had distinguished themselves negatively in the derby della Mole (the latter, in particular, was sent off for a reaction foul). Gaudioso's turn then came: the student denied what had happened at first, but later decided to confess and named Nani; the Turin adviser confirmed the bribery had taken place, specified that he did not know who the players involved were, and added that the entire Piedmontese club was informed of the combine, except that he later denied it and explained that he was the only manager responsible for the misdeed. Gaudioso, moreover, after declaring that he had given the money to Munerati, Pastore and his friend Allemandi, claimed that he had kept the money for himself and finally recanted further, accusing Allemandi alone. while Pastore was accused of having a bet on the Juventus defeat. No action was taken against Juventus, however, since the management of the Bianconeri club had been a victim, not an active participant, in the misdeed. Society • Torino FC: Revocation of the 1926-1927 Scudetto and payment of 10,000 liras for investigation expenses. • Enrico Marone Cinzano (Torino president): disqualified for life (amnestied April 22, 1928). • Eugenio Vogliotti (vice-president Torino): disqualified for life (amnestied April 22, 1928). • Pietro Zanoncelli (secretary Torino): disqualified for life (amnestied April 22, 1928). • Guido Nani (auditor Torino): disqualified for life (amnestied April 22, 1928). • Another 17 members of the Torino Board of Directors in the months of May–June 1927: disqualification for life (amnestied February 3, 1928). • 2 other members of the Torino Board of Directors in the months after June 1927: disqualification for 2 years (amnestied on February 3, 1928). Judgment of the second instance In an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport on November 6, Arpinati announced that the Juventus player involved in the crime was Luigi Allemandi and that he intended to disqualify him for life. Allemandi, who had moved from Juventus to Inter in the summer, prepared a lengthy defense brief in which he emphasized his excellent performance in the incriminated match and disputed the reliability of Gaudioso's words against him, but Arpinati rejected the request for acquittal on Nov. 21, citing as material evidence of the wrongdoing the alleged fragments of a letter in which the player, addressing Gaudioso, allegedly claimed payment of the initial fee of 25,000 lire; this missive was allegedly found by the president himself following an inspection at the guesthouse in Piazzetta Madonna degli Angeli. Society Confirmation of first instance ruling. Executives Confirmation of the judgment of the first instance. Players • Luigi Allemandi (former Juventus): disqualified for life (amnestied April 22, 1928). • Federico Munerati (Juventus): official recall. • Piero Pastore (Juventus): official recall. The criminal trial and the two amnesties On November 9, 1927, the directors of Torino sanctioned by the Federation issued an official communiqué in which, claiming their extraneousness to the bribery work carried out by Nani, they announced that they would present a petition to the FIGC Directorate to ascertain individual responsibility. Arpinati nipped the initiative in the bud and suggested that they take legal action (since at the time of the events there was no arbitration clause preventing federal members from turning to ordinary justice to settle disputes inherent in sporting activity). Zanetti asserted that this measure was granted solely because of Allemandi's mother's heartfelt pleas for clemency, addressed to Ferretti, the Duce, Prince Umberto, and even the king of Italy, although the footballer, in the decades that followed, repeatedly disputed the outcome of the scandal, always proclaiming himself innocent. ==Controversy==

The unassigned scudetto On the reasons for not reassigning the title to Bologna, opposite inferences were made. On the other hand, some accused Arpinati of having engineered or at least “inflated,” the scandal involving Allemandi for the very purpose of favoring Bologna, insinuating that the failure of the Emilian club to be crowned after the title was revoked from Torino would have been desired by high-ranking hierarchs, perhaps by Benito Mussolini himself, fearful that Arpinati's conduct, which had also been subject to criticism earlier, might come to discredit the image and authority of the Fascist system. The Pinasco case According to the latter thesis, the federal president allegedly tried to harm Bologna's rivals as early as June 8, 1927, when the Italian Technical Refereeing Committee decreed the repetition of the May 15 match between the Piedmontese and the Emilians (won 1–0 by the “Toro”) because of an alleged technical error. Genovese match director Giacomo Pinasco, questioned by the body as many as twenty-three days after the match, allegedly admitted that he had not signaled an offside in the circumstance of the Granata goal, as he was distracted by the complaints of the Rossoblù team about a phantom goal that had just been denied to it; however, the official version of the assembly was resoundingly denied by Pinasco himself, who stated in an interview with La Stampa that he considered the Torino goal to be regular and the previous non-assignment of a goal to the Bolognese to be correct. “Carlin” Bergoglio, a historical signature of the Guerin Sportivo, ironically commented on the surreal situation: The replay of the annulled match was held on July 3 and saw a further Torino victory, with a goal on a penalty kick, which was decisive in winning the later revoked Scudetto: the referee of this match was Carlo Dani, Turin-born and living in Genoa, who had already been the protagonist on January 16 of granting the Piedmontese a decisive penalty kick during another challenge against the Emilians Just the penalty kick that sanctioned the tricolor title for the Granata generated further controversy, as it turned out to be generous to many reporters; in particular, Renato Ferminelli commented: respectively in the 1924–1925 seasons (the infamous Scudetto of the Pistols, marred by sports and institutional scandals) In these circumstances, as with the Pinasco affair, Arpinati's accusers have never been able to prove the occurrence of undue interference by the federal presidency in decisions made by other bodies The suspicions about Rosetta Some accounts have suggested that Virginio Rosetta was also involved, based on his interactions with Gaudioso, though no formal charges were brought against him. ==Requests for title reassignment==

Over time, several requests for the reattribution of the revoked Scudetto have periodically followed, both by Torino (due to the alleged irregularity of the sports process) and Bologna (due to the failure to award the title to the runner-up). As early as 1949, during Grande Torino's funeral, Ottorino Barassi's FIGC promised to reopen the case in favor of the Granata club, but that solemn pledge was not followed through. In 1964, however, the editor-in-chief of the Gazzetta dello Sport (as well as the son of Arpinati's “right-hand man”) Gualtiero Zanetti suggested to Federal President Giuseppe Pasquale that the Scudetto struggle between Bologna and Inter, both first at the end of the championship, be resolved by exceptionally awarding the 1964 title to Inter and the 1927 title to Bologna: this proposal, initially welcomed, was eventually rejected and a play-off was opted for as per regulatory practice. On October 17, 2015, Granata president Urbano Cairo, on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new Filadelfia Stadium, announced the resumption of the battle for the reassignment of the Scudetto; in this regard, federal president Carlo Tavecchio guaranteed the FIGC's willingness to look into the matter. On April 28, 2017, President Cairo forwarded a formal petition to the football federation to obtain the return of the revoked title, which will be followed by the appointment of a federal commission dedicated to the dispute; at the end of the investigation, the federal council will be called to express its opinion. The process suffered a setback during the long commissioning of the Federcalcio bodies, which ended in October 2018 with the election of Gabriele Gravina as president. In the following month, November, Torino's initiative was joined by Bologna, which in turn claimed the disputed title. During the federal council meeting on January 30, 2019, President Gravina proposed the establishment of an ad hoc commission to analyze, with a historical-scientific approach, both the 1927 Scudetto claims of Torino and Bologna and those of Lazio and Genoa related to the 1915 and 1925 championships; the collegial body was established the following May 30, and the vice-president of the Football Museum Foundation Matteo Marani was appointed to coordinate the university professors who make it up. In the spring of 2021, the commission in charge concluded its investigative work, drafting a historical report and placing the Federation in a position to settle the dispute. ==See also==