Former Juventus forward Fabrizio Miccoli was sentenced to three years and six months in jail for extortion

The former forward of Italian nationality, Fabrizio Miccoli, will go to jail for the crime of aggravated extortion. The 42-year-old former soccer player was sentenced by the Supreme Court of his country to three years and six months in prison, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.

According to the aforementioned media, the former striker of clubs such as Juventus, Fiorentina, Benfica and Palermo will have to decide together with his lawyer in which penitentiary to serve his sentence. The newspaper pointed out that Miccoli is likely to ask the Surveillance Court to apply alternative measures, however, his “passage through jail is inevitable.”

The former footballer has been convicted of a case that happened more than ten years ago when he requested aggravated extortion from Mauro Lauricella, son of the Palermo mafia boss, who was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Miccoli reportedly tried to recover 12,000 euros “with violence and threats” from Andrea Graffagnini, owner of the Paparazzi nightclub in Isola delle Femmine.

However, in the telephone conversations that served for the investigation, the former player insults Giovanni Falcone, a judge assassinated by the mafia in 1992. Later, he apologized for the profanity and also stated that he was unaware that his friend Lauricella was in the wrong direction. .

Fabrizio Miccoli and his time in football

Miccolo won two titles in his career: the Italian Super Cup with Juventus in 2003 and the Portuguese Super Cup with Benfica in 2005. In addition, he wore the ‘Azzurri’ jersey 10 times and scored two goals.