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Pescara have two points deducted in scandal

Pescara president Daniele Sebastiani said the club, who were Serie B champions last term before losing their coach Zdenek Zeman to AS Roma, would fight the decision of the federation to uphold a prosecutor's charge.

"We didn't expect this decision, rather we expected to be acquitted," Sebastiani told reporters.

"Evidently in this first phase of the investigation the sporting judges wanted to give strength to the prosecution's version (of events).

"We have absolutely nothing to do with any of this, and we will go, if we need to, all the way to CONI (The Italian Olympic Committee)."

Piacenza's Mario Cassano, Ravenna's Alessandro Zamperini and ex-pros Luigi Sartor and Nicola Santoni were banned from football for five years following the wide-ranging sporting investigation into match-fixing for betting syndicates.

Italian football was still recovering from the 2006 "Calciopoli" match-fixing scandal when the latest trouble exploded last June.

Last month, police raided Italy's pre-Euro 2012 training camp and put Domenico Criscito formally under investigation, leading to the left back being dropped from the tournament squad.