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Fixing suspicions about 10 Italian games

Catania v Atalanta in Serie A among matches highlighted

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(ANSA) - Brussels, June 3 - European gambling-sector association Federbet said in a report presented at the European Parliament on Tuesday that it had suspicions that 10 matches involving Italian teams were fixed in the 2013-2014 season.
    These included a Serie A match between Catania and Atalanta, four games in the second tier and a friendly between Lazio and Levski Sofia. Italian soccer has been hit by a series of betting-related match-fixing probes in recent years, which have resulted in teams, including top-flight ones, getting points deducted and bans for players involved.
    Juventus, the most successful team in Italian domestic competition, were stripped of two Serie A titles and had to spend a season in the second tier following the Calciopoli scandal in 2006 about attempts to arrange compliant referees for some teams' games.
   

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