"I hope that together with the other teams and the government we can change football in our country, to build a sustainable and ambitious future."
This was stated by John Elkann, president of Exor, which controls Juventus, in a long interview with Repubblica on the occasion of the anniversary of Gianni Agnelli's death.
Among the passions of the lawyer, who died on 24 January 2003, were football and his Juventus.
"Juventus is not the problem, but it is and will always be part of the solution. The future of Serie A and of Italian football is at stake here, which is becoming marginal and irrelevant", says Elkann who speaks of an unjust sentence.
"Juventus is the most loved and followed Italian team: it represents our national football. The injustice of this sentence is evident: many have pointed it out,
Cairo, the important thing is to clean up football
- "Juventus' penalty? These are heavy situations but let's leave it to judges. It would be very important to try to clean up football. These things set a bad example for young people too".
This is the opinion of the president of Torino, Urbano Cairo, on the sidelines of the presentation of the partnership between Credit Agricole and Rcs Sport.
"It's important - added Cairo - to do things in a fair and sporting way. I don't want to say that it wasn't like that. But when you do these things, everything else is forgotten."