Former Palermo and Italy striker
Fabrizio Miccoli got three and a half years in jail Wednesday
for extortion aggravated by mafia methods.
Miccoli, 42, handed himself in to a prison in the northern city
of Rovigo after the supreme Court of Cassation upheld a January
2020 verdict from a Palermo appeals court.
Miccoli was found guilty of commissioning the son of a mafia
boss to get back 12,000 euros from a disco owner in Palermo on
behalf of a former Palermo FC physio.
During the probe police intercepted a phone conversation in
which Miccoli described slain anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni
Falcone as "muck", an assertion for which he later tearfully
apologised.
Miccoli scored 103 goals in 259 matches in Serie A across nine
seasons, representing Perugia, Juventus, Fiorentina and Palermo,
also spending time on loan to Benfica in Portugal. He later
spent two seasons with his hometown club Lecce in Lega Pro. He
retired in 2015 after playing for Maltese club Birkirkara.
In a two-year international career, Miccoli scored twice in ten
appearances for Italy.
Miccoli currently serves as assistant coach of Albanian second
division side, FK Dinamo Tirana.
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