For the team from a Verona neighborhood that for years has hoisted the banner of provincial football, tenacious and clean, it is a really bad end. The Chievo Verona of the Campedelli family has not been admitted to Serie B and is now in danger of disappearing from professional football. After the first rejection of Covisoc and the confirmation of the Federal Council of the FIGC, now all that remains is the appeal to the Coni College of Guarantee, but the margins for a reversal of the decision seem minimal. Meanwhile, even in Serie C, there are excellent exclusions, even of recently established properties. Carpi, Casertana, Novara, Paganese and Sambenedettese were not admitted due to tax and social security irregularities detected by Covisoc.
Chievo and tax installments
Chievo, chaired by Luca Campedelli since 1992, was relegated to the cadeteria in the 2018/19 season after 11 consecutive Serie A championships. In his last two seasons in Serie B he has always played in the playoffs to return to the top flight, but without succeeding. Covisoc has expressed reservations on some tax installments stipulated and then suspended with the Revenue Agency. The club declared in an official note that “with regard to the communication received from Co.Vi.So.C, ChievoVerona announces the appeal considering that it has operated in line with current and federal regulations, for registration in the Serie A championship. B 2021/22 “.
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The fictitious capital gains
The Chievo story had already faded after the case of the fictitious capital gains. An investigation by the Federal Prosecutor had reconstructed a picture of alleged administrative offenses that ranged from 2015 to 2018 and which had been consumed, for the prosecution, in a series of capital gains made between the Clivense company and Cesena to inflate revenues and obtain the ‘registration to the championships. despite not having the requisites. Accusations that, if accepted by the judges, could even jeopardize the permanence of the two teams in their respective championships, however they would burden them with heavy penalties. The investigation by the Federal Prosecutor into the “fictitious capital gains” of Chievo and Cesena ended after about forty hearings with the referrals to the National Federal Court of presidents Luca Campedelli and Giorgio Lugaresi and the two clubs involved. Even if in the end it was only Cesena who paid with a real penalty (which, however, failed). Campedelli’s Chievo for procedural issues saved Serie A without however erasing the shadows of those practices.
The reactions
«The appeals have not been accepted and today six clubs have not obtained the national license. They have two days to appeal and there is still an open game regarding any assessments by the College of Guarantee “, said the president of the FIGC. Gabriele Gravina, at the end of the Council. The federal number one, however, highlighted all his bitterness: «We had removed the risk of losing registered teams and today we are also losing a team of B. These are alarming signs that in any case call for an intervention. The times are the same, the need for acceleration derives from a greater serenity and positivity that we have assimilated in these 50 days of Europeans. My psychological impact does not change in terms of my belief in saying that a path of reform is essential. Today’s results say so ». Among the ideas circulating to “soften” the risk of a double jump from A to C, a B2 Series buffer between the A Series and a drier C.
As for the Verona club, the number one in the B League, Mauro Balatahe added: «I am a guarantor. Chievo is a club that has an important history, now let’s see what they will support in the third degree of judgment ».