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‘I Will Kill Myself’ If Found Guilty Of Match Fixing’ — Gattuso

Former Italy international and AC Milan midfielder, Gennaro Gattuso, is under investigation on suspicion of being part of a match-fixing operation affecting dozens of Serie A games. The Police also arrested … Continue reading ‘I Will Kill Myself’ If Found Guilty Of Match Fixing’ — Gattuso


Former Italy international and AC Milan midfielder, Gennaro Gattuso, is under investigation on suspicion of being part of a match-fixing operation affecting dozens of Serie A games.

The Police also arrested four individuals in connection with the case which is believed to have involved more than 30 matches stretching back to 2009.

Gattuso, a World Cup winner with Italy in 2006, denied any connection with match-fixing and described the accusations as “absurd”.

“I’m angry and offended,” he told the media in Italy. “I don’t even know how you would fix a match. I don’t know how you’d go about it,” he said.

Thirty-five years old Gattuso won the Champions League twice with Milan and  was sacked as manager by Serie B Palermo in September after a series of bad results.

Officials involved in the case confirmed that former Lazio, AC Milan and Inter Milan player, Cristian Brocchi, is also being investigated.

Brocchi’s agent, Davide Lippi, told journalists: “It was a big surprise, we’re all quite shocked. I’ve known Cristian for years and I think he’s got nothing to do with any of this,” “Cristian is calm about it.”

Prosecutors say bets worth tens of thousands of euros, and in some cases hundreds of thousands, have been placed on both the top-flight Serie A and Serie B matches.

The investigation was triggered by a second-tier Serie B match in Cremona in 2010 which aroused suspicions that led to a wider probe.

Former Lazio and Italy striker, Giuseppe Signori, has been banned for five years and 15 other players suspended for between one and five years for their part in the scandal.

Di Martino confirmed the case showed that the match-fixing scandal, which has hung over Italian soccer since the 2006 “Calciopoli” scandal which saw Juventus stripped of the 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles, had not been resolved.

Gennaro Gattuso has rejected accusations of his alleged involvement in any match-fixing and dramatically claimed he would kill himself if found guilty.