“Initially I played tennis, then from September 2022, since I had to return large sums to various platforms, I also started betting on football, to try to recover”. Taken from the minutes of the interrogation of Nicolò beans at the Federal Prosecutor's Office. The newspapers this morning are publishing extensive excerpts. Quotation marks that mark a point on the semi-hidden reality of the new betting case. Fagioli pleaded guilty to seven-month bani.
“When I was at Cremonese - it is read - My mother advised me to go to the Sert to get treatment, I went there a few times. I had the illusion that I could do without it. In the period after September 2022 I played compulsively in front of the TV on any sporting event I was watching, including football... even Serie B and Lega Pro. Increasing the debt and receiving heavy physical threats, such as 'I'll break your legs', even during the night I only thought of playing to recover my debt”.
Fagioli names some of the footballers called to help him, and of Tonali: “I decided to ask for loans from some friends and a teammate, Gatti, from whom I asked for 40 thousand euros, telling him that I needed them to buy a watch and that my mother had blocked the accounts. Another loan was made by Dragusin and some friends from Piacenza. I started in Tirrenia in the Under 21 retreat. It was Tonali, a close friend of mine, who suggested the illegal site Icebet to me”.
“I happened to see him play and asked him what he was doing. He told me that I could play because there were no traces of bets. It was Tonali himself who made me register through an account. I don't remember if it was he who gave me the credentials or if I did it directly by contacting a contact, a physical person, via WhatsApp. I sent a message to this contact and he replied sending me a username and password so I could start betting.”
“The first bets were on tennis, then on football, never on Cremonese or Juventus. I bet on the winner of a match or on the under/over result, never on the name of the scorer or the exact result. Having a lot of free time, it's a way to beat boredom”. For now, Sandro Tonali's statement has been classified. But some newspapers write that the player admitted to having also bet on Milan's matches.
Article published on 18 October 2023 - 10:47
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