Serie A: Juventus coach banned over fix scandal - report

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Juventus coach Antonio Conte was on Friday banned for 10 months by a disciplinary commission investigating the "Calcioscommesse" match-fixing scandal, according to the Italian news agency Ansa.

Conte was accused of failing to disclose his knowledge of two fixed matches when he worked at Siena football club during the 2010-11 season.

Prosecutors last week requested a 15-month ban for the Juventus coach and his deputy Angelo Alessio for not alerting football's authorities to irregularities in the second tier Serie B games between Novara and AlbinoLeffe. Alessio was suspended for eight months.

But Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci, hauled before the tribunal over a match against Udinese in May 2010 when he was playing for Bari, was cleared. His Juventus team-mate, Simone Pepe, accused of having failed to notify the authorities about the same match, was also cleared.

The investigation centres on a number of players suspected of having been targeted by illegal betting syndicates to fix matches and led to a number of enquiries and arrests of players, including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri.

The wave of arrests over the last year came six years after the "Calciopoli" match-fixing scandal, which saw Juventus stripped of two Serie A titles for trying to influence referee appointments.