CAREER MAN

• In 2006 when the Italian match-fixing scandal was under investigation Paparesta said he was "locked up in a locker room" by then Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi (the alleged ringleader of "a network" set up to influence referees), supposedly for failing to assure the club's victory in a game in the 2004-05 season. Paparesta said he did not report the incident because he feared it would have ended his career.
  Probably he should have reported the incident, because at the end he received an eight-month ban from the Italian referees' association. At first he was already banned for 3 months.
• Gianluca Paparesta was invited by FIFA to participate in an official series of tests to determine the list of referees for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. But since he (was?) retired internationally it was al to no avail.
• Gianluca Paparesta is one of the few worldreferees who has his own website.
• Paparesta is often named in the Italian Moggi/Calciopoli scandal. Moggi was a powerful fixer of Juventus. Besides the story of how Moggi locked Paparesta in his own locker room, there is more:
  - 2004-2005: Chievo x Juventus: A shot on goal by Chievo player Pellisier is behind the goal line, but the goal was denied, Juve wins 1-0.
  - 2005-2006: Inter x Juventus: Juve wins 2-1, in the last minute a free kick was incorrectly rewarded after Nedved went down. Again Moggi visited the dressing room of Paparesta
  - 2005-2006: Juventus x Lazio: Juve player Cannavaro breaks a leg of Lazio-player Mudingayi but does not receive a booking. Lazio player Dabo is denied a goal, but receives a red card after protesting, Juve scores in 88th minute: 1-0
  This is from the book Verdachte voorzetten by Jurriaan van Wessem, who perhaps also watched the antijuve site.