The term `` tangentopoli '' is a compound word formed by combining 'tangente ' and 'polis '
The name Calciopoli ( which could be adapted in English as `` Footballgate '' , by analogy with the Watergate scandal , and would be literally translated as `` Footballville '' ) was made up by the media by analogy with Tangentopoli ( literally `` Bribesville '' ) , which is the name that was given to some corruption-based clientelism in Italy during the Mani pulite investigation in the early 1990s—in that case , the neologism was formed by combining the Italian word tangente ( `` bribe '' , from the Latin word tangens which means `` to touch '' and , in a wider sense , `` to be due to '' ) and the Greek word polis ( `` city '' ) , originally referring to Milan as the `` city of bribes '' .
2006 Italian football scandal