Gatti and Dragusin among players who helped Fagioli pay gambling debts | OneFootball

La Gazzetta dello Sport reports Nicolò Fagioli accumulated over €500.000 in gambling debts and was helped to cover the sum by 31 people, including ex-teammates Federico Gatti and Radu Dragusin.

Fagioli and Tonali are among the 13 players named in a new investigation into illegal betting in Italy. The Italian pair has already been fined and banned for gambling on football games and does not risk further sporting sanctions.

La Gazzetta dello Sport reports that Fagioli, now at Fiorentina, accumulated €587.000 in gambling debts for which he was helped by some of his ex-teammates, including Gatti and Dragusin, who are not under investigation.

Gatti and Dragusin among players who helped Fagioli pay gambling debts

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Gatti and Dragusin are part of a 31-person group that helped Fagioli recover financially by paying some of his debts to a jewelry.

According to Gazzetta, some of the other players included in the list are Stefano Turati, Alessandro Plizzari, Nicolò Armini, Alessandro Russo, Alessio Di Massimo, Gianmaria Zanandrea, Lucas Rosa and ex-Cremonese teammates Caleb Okoli, Mouhamadou Sarr, Alessandro Salami and Filippo Nardi.

From December 2021 to October 2023, more than 30 people contributed to paying Fagioli’s debts with transactions of at least €3,500.

According to the report, Francesco Luciani paid the highest sum, circa €73.000, followed by Okoli, Dragusin, and Gatti, who combined €121.000.

Fagioli’s agent Cristiano Pompili paid circa €30.000, similar to Di Massimo, €29.000 and Salami €28.000.

None of them used illicit online platforms to place bets, so they are not under investigation.

Fagioli collaborated with the authorities and treated his gambling addiction, receiving a seven-month ban which ended last year.