The Italian Nicolo Fagioli, a fiorentina midfielder investigated for participating in an illegal betting network, urged several of his close friends and colleagues to leave money To make a resale of luxury watches with the Spanish Álvaro Morata that is not among those investigated.
Fagioli’s intention was to make fast money to settle his debt for the game. “The Rolex are achieved by Álvaro Morata for much less and then he reverts them. I’ve been doing this business with him for a year, “was one of the messages intercepted by the authorities and published on Monday by ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’.
Fagioli is being investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office of Milan (North) with a dozen players for having participated in an illegal betting of bets between 2021 and 2023. In October of that last year He received a 7 -month sports sanction without playing For having bet on football matches, something prohibited by the Italian Football Federation (Figc).
The investigation to the rest of the players, among which are Leandro Paredes, Ángel Di María or Junior Firpohe was born from telephone conversations extracted from the mobiles of his own Beans And his compatriot Sandro Tonaliwhich was also sanctioned sportsly, although with 10 months of punishment.
Following this research and Fagioli’s private chats, the giant debt of the Italian international footballer was discovered, which reached almost 3 million euros, as revealed ‘Republic’.
Beansdesperate for paying off the debt and under the threats of the chiefs of the illegal network, which also forced him to be a kind of player recruiter to bet, he resorted to his teammates in Juventus, close friends and former partners of Cremonese To raise money to pay.
Some of those who asked for money mentioned Morata’s name, although it is not proven to tell the truth. The captain of the Spanish team is not among those investigated.
“Please don’t tell you because If Álvaro learns that I do it or tell others, he will get very And it won’t let me do it anymore. They (jewelry) do not earn money with this, but they do it because Álvaro and I advertising them out there, “he explained in an audio message to Gianmaria Carrier, former partner in the quarry of the ‘Juve’, as published ‘Eurosport’.
In total, Fagioli gathered about 600,000 euros. Among the most prominent names of the 31 people who left money are those of Federico Gatti (Juventus) y Rad Dragusin (Tottenham)although the most striking is that of Federico Luciani, assistant referee of series A, which lent him 73,000 euros.
The referee made a total of 8 transfers in 2022 worth 73,000 euros to the jewelry ‘Elysium’which was the cover of the players to settle their debts. They simulated a purchase of a luxury watch or jewelry, but they only left or transferred the money and stayed with the invoice, while the product remained in the store; Or they paid double for any product and, in that case, they did remove it.
Many of those who left him the money without knowing the real reason why Fagioli needed it began to demand that he return it: “I wait until Monday, you have broken my balls … You told me that your father needed it and I gave it to you immediately, “his compatriot Caleb Okoli snapped, with which he coincided in the cremonese.
Fagioli played for just over one season with the ‘Juve’ under the pressure of the threats of the managers of the betting network. “I will stop playing. I will even remove the pen to sign contracts because you are shit, “said ‘Nelly’, one of them.
In fact, during that time, at the beginning of 2023, he left an image that went viral by making a mistake before the Sassuolo that supposed the defeat of his. He was replaced and broke to cry on the bench, in which he initially blamed the error and that, however, as the footballer himself later confessed, it was due to the pressure of the debts.
In any case, as regards the played players, being an illegal betting network – except that they were betting on football matches – they will not receive sports sanction, although they could receive a penalty