World champions and other football players who have paid for communications with a mafia

© information agency "Agence France-Presse" 2019/PASCAL PAVANI Sentence: three and a half years "I am the simple football player, instead of the mafioso. I was brought by my children's naivety. I did not understand with whom I deal, and simply wanted to be friendly" — Mikkoli when he was given the floor in court few years ago spoke. Only the touching speech did not rescue the football player from a severe verdict. Fabritsio Giovanni kept saying to 3,5 years of imprisonment though the prosecutor and asked to send the player for a lattice for four years. To leave imprisonment the football player will go only this year. More than two years Mikkoli tried to appeal against sentence, but proofs...