FIGC, Gravina responds to reports of mafia links to Italian football

23 ott 2018

Allegations came to light within the last month of links between former Juventus CEO Beppe Marotta and the mafia; to a greater extent on the role of organized crime within Italian football ultras and curvas. Italian TV show Report, a journalistic show which touches on a different topic each episode, have accused Marotta of contact with the mafia, claiming to have intercepted messages between the Juve boss and Rocco Dominello, the son of a mafia boss, in which Dominello asks for five tickes for the Juve-Madrid match and Marotta obliges.

As reported by Ansa, newly elected FIGC president said the following on the matter:

“It is a subject that I leave to the ordinary judiciary: it is the relationship between society and curvas that should be ordered, then the underworld is underworld and ordinary justice must be occupied.”

Report, meanwhile, continue their investigation – with it sure to have repercussions for better or for worse in the upcoming weeks and months.

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