Lazio President Claudio Lotitio believes ‘everyone talks badly about Juve’ at the moment, but the Bianconeri have ‘contributed to the livelihood of Italian football.’ The Biancocelesti president was speaking on stage at the ‘Colalucci Award’ and discussed the current situation affecting the Old Lady who stand accused of inflating player transfer values and false accounting:
“Juventus? I am not a magistrate. Everyone, when they win, jumps on the bandwagon, then they run away when there is some problem, running away moreover from the people they all benefited from. There are teams that made so much money from the sale of two players, if there was no Juve, they would not have grossed €160 million. Today everyone talks badly about Juve, but they havecontributed to the livelihood of Italian football.
Is there a rick of the Juve case spreading? I don’t know, I don’t know other teams’ behaviours. It certainly won’t expand by involving Lazio, we don’t have problems of this nature. This for me is a matter of pride and tranquility. Especially the way I started, a dramatic situation.
Agnelli? I saw him in the Senate and hugged him. Recommended anything? No, no problem. He gave me an impression from a human point of view that was not fair compared to what he has given to Italian football.
To say that Juve is the evil of Italian soccer is not right. Today everyone is going out of their way to create dissent against Juve. Politics is one thing, human value is another. Andrea is a working man. We used to meet at my office at 8 a.m., that means he woke up at 5 a.m., 6 a.m. Capital gains? I don’t know what they are.
Serie A? It’s about creating a climate of cooperation, unity is strength, alone you don’t go anywhere. We have included a woman in the League, we are being serious. She is the first one to be elected. Did I push her? She has the experience, she has managed women’s football at Empoli. It’s a city that always manages to churn out talent, it’s right that she has a role within governance. The presence of a woman is a touch of change, transparency, different sensitivity. In football, behavior that is in the name of respect for the rules is necessary. Juventus? I’m not worried about them. If we keep talking about it, we make everyone worry. We are out of the World Cup, some people should ask themselves questions and give themselves answers. I don’t think it depends on Serie A.”
