(ANSA) – NAPLES, 05 FEB – “I simulated an injury to avoid being involved in a combine”. This was stated by the footballer of Turin and the national team Armando Izzo answering yesterday, in the New Palace of Justice in Naples, to the questions of the deputy anti-mafia prosecutor Maurizio De Marco in the context of the trial on football betting and the Camorra, as reported today by the newspaper Il Mattino . On the occasion of the Modena-Avellino match (Serie B, 17 March 2014), Izzo, a footballer under the Irpinia team, did not take the field. Izzo also talks about the reason for that choice, of having been contacted, when he was in Secondigliano at his mother’s house, by his colleague Luca Pini (like him investigated in this procedure) who was also a jeweler, who had to deliver him some jewelry. Together with another person, the two see each other in a hospital where, however, there were also Umberto and Antonio Accurso, prominent members of the Secondigliano Camorra and relatives of Izzo, together with other people. Hearing the “smell of burning”, the footballer reports that he has taken a taxi and left after some sort of approach. Finally, Izzo also recalled another approach that took place several years earlier, when he was in Trieste, but this too failed. (HANDLE).
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