Italian prosecutors drop case against referees boss
Prosecutors ask that a sports fraud case against the man in charge of assigning Serie A referees in Italy be dropped.
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Prosecutors ask that a sports fraud case against the man in charge of assigning Serie A referees in Italy be dropped.
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