FILE -- In this Nov. 1, 2009 file photo, Atalanta coach Antonio Conte is seen during a Serie A soccer match between Cagliari and Atalanta, in Cagliari, Italy. Now coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte, was placed under investigation on Monday, May 28, 2012, for alleged wrongdoing while coach of Siena. Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere Monday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in football. News reports said Lazio captain Stefano Mauri was among those arrested. Police are also investigating Italy and Zenit St Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito a week before the national team leaves for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. (AP Photo/Daniela Santoni)
FILE -- In this Nov. 1, 2009 file photo, Atalanta coach Antonio Conte is seen during a Serie A soccer match between Cagliari and Atalanta, in Cagliari, Italy. Now coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte, was placed under investigation on Monday, May 28, 2012, for alleged wrongdoing while coach of Siena. Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere Monday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in football. News reports said Lazio captain Stefano Mauri was among those arrested. Police are also investigating Italy and Zenit St Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito a week before the national team leaves for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. (AP Photo/Daniela Santoni)
FILE -- In this Oct. 29, 2011 file photo, Juventus coach Antonio Conte celebrates after winning the Serie A soccer match between Inter Milan and Juventus at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy. Coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte, was placed under investigation on Monday, May 28, 2012, for alleged wrongdoing while coach of Siena. Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence and made more than a dozen arrests elsewhere Monday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in football. News reports said Lazio captain Stefano Mauri was among those arrested. Police are also investigating Italy and Zenit St Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito a week before the national team leaves for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
FILE -- In this April 7, 2012 file photo, Lazio's captain Stefano Mauri is seen in action during a Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Napoli, at Rome's Olympic stadium. Mauri was among more than twelve arrested as part of a wide-ranging investigation into max-fixing in football, Monday, May 28, 2012. Italian authorities also swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence, and are investigating Italy and Zenit St Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito a week before the national team leaves for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine, and the coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte for his alleged wrongdoing while coach of Siena. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
ROME (AP) ? Italian authorities swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence Monday and made more than a dozen arrests, including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri, elsewhere as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in soccer.
The Italian soccer federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested.
The coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte, was placed under investigation for alleged wrongdoing while coach of Siena.
"Conte's reaction is that of someone who's completely innocent and strongly determined to prove his total innocence," Conte's lawyer, Antonio De Rencis, said.
Siena president Massimo Mezzaroma has also been placed under investigation.
Police are also investigating Italy and Zenit St. Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito a week before the national team leaves for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine. Two police cars arrived at the national team's training site at around 6:25am local time and left more than two hours later. Criscito's house in Genoa was also searched.
Criscito, who did not take part in Italy's training session, has reportedly asked to be heard by the authorities as soon as possible.
Action has been taken against 19 people, 11 of whom are soccer or former soccer players ? 14 have been arrested, three have been placed under house arrest and two others are to present themselves to authorities.
"It's devastating news," former Italy and current Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni said. "If the authorities are acting it's because there's something there."
Mauri has been accused of sporting fraud. Most of the footballers accused now play in Serie B or lower leagues, although Omar Milanetto spent five years at Genoa before joining Padova in 2011.
Numerous others have had their houses searched, including Chievo Verona's Sergio Pellissier.
More than 50 people have now been arrested in Italy in the past year as part of the probe started by judicial authorities in Cremona.
Former Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni was banned from football for three and a half years last summer, and former Lazio captain Giuseppe Signori was also arrested.
Serie A clubs Atalanta, Novara and Siena were among the 22 Italian teams notified at the beginning of this month that they are being investigated by sports authorities.
Prosecutors in Cremona have detailed an extensive match-fixing ring stretching as far as Singapore and South America that was allegedly in operation for more than 10 years.
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