Rome - Luciano Moggi, former general manager of Juventus, and his son Alessandro Thursday were found guilty of threatening several footballers in a corruption trial, Italian media reported.

Luciano Moggi was sentenced to 18 months and his son to 14, but neither will be imprisoned, as their offence was pardoned by a law in 2006.

The Moggis were among the founders of GEA, a firm of footballers' agents, which handled the contract of many Serie A and Serie B players between 2001 and 2006.

Four other agents involved in the trial, including Davide Lippi, the son of Italy's national coach Marcello Lippi, were acquitted from charges of associating to create a monopoly and of threats against footballers, which judges also dropped in relation to the Moggis.

A wide corruption scandal shook Italian football in the spring of 2006 involving high-profile clubs like Juventus and AC Milan, referees, agents, members of the Italian football federation (FIGC) and club officials.

Moggi appeared to be among the ringleaders and was promptly fired from Juventus, who were the hardest hit in a sports trial that sentenced them to relegation and to the stripping of two national titles. (dpa)