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Wed 07 Jul 2007Judicial trial summons 37 for alleged fraudThe spectre of match-fixing is back to haunt Italian football. Just one year after Italy won the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Italian football again finds itself in the dock, with 37 people summoned for alleged "sports fraud", committed within the ambit of the match-fixing scandal that rocked Italy last summer.In essence, this state judicial trial will go over much of the same ground as that already covered by the Italian Football Federation's hastily-mounted disciplinary inquiry last summer. That hearing resulted primarily in the relegation of Juventus from Serie A to Serie B and in the banning of various individuals from professional football.