CREMONA, Italy (AP) ? Italian authorities arrested Lazio captain Stefano Mauri and more than a dozen others Monday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into match-fixing in football. Police also swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence as part of the operation. The Italian football federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested and later announced that Zenit St. Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito would not be in Italy's European Championship squad after it emerged the player was being investigated. Two police cars arrived at the national team's training site at around 6:25am local time (0425 GMT) and left nearly three hours later. The coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte, was also placed under investigation for alleged wrongdoing while he was coach of Siena and his house in Turin was searched. Action has been taken against 19 people, 11 of whom are footballers or former footballers ? 14 have been arrested, three have been placed under house arrest and two others are to present themselves to authorities.
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