Juventus up to third in Serie A after 15-point penalty suspended

ROME (AP) — Juventus had a 15-point penalty suspended on Thursday, lifting the storied Italian workforce as much as third in Serie A and proper within the combine for a spot in subsequent season’s Champions League.

Following a three-hour listening to the day before today, the case has now been referred again to the soccer federation’s appeals courtroom and Juventus has been handed again the factors pending the brand new trial.

That noticed the Bianconeri transfer from seventh within the league to 3rd, two factors behind second-place Lazio and three forward of fourth-place Roma in a decent battle for the Champions League qualifying locations.

Juventus was hit with the huge penalty in January for false accounting whereas a number of members of its former board have been additionally handed bans from soccer actions, together with former president Andrea Agnelli.

Juventus denied wrongdoing and appealed to Italy’s highest sports activities courtroom throughout the Italian Olympic Committee, referred to as CONI.

Several of the suspensions have been upheld together with for Agnelli and Tottenham director Fabio Paratici.