Italian football has been rocked by a betting scandal after Sandro Tonali and Nicol\u00f2 Zaniolo were sent home from Italy’s training camp.<\/p>\n
Italian football has been rocked by a developing betting scandal after Sandro Tonali and Nicol\u00f2 Zaniolo were sent back to their clubs from Italy\u2019s international training camp\u00a0yesterday (12 October).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The move follows revelations that the players, who both play in the Premier League, are under investigation by Turin prosecutors for their alleged involvement in illegal betting activities.<\/p>\n This latest development comes hot on the heels of Juventus midfielder Nicolo Fagioli\u2019s admission that he too is part of the betting investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fagioli\u00a0reportedly\u00a0voluntarily surrendered to the authorities as part of this ongoing probe, where he faces allegations of using\u00a0unregulated\u00a0betting websites.<\/p>\n The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) confirmed that the Turin Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office is actively investigating Tonali (pictured) and Zaniolo.<\/p>\n The FIGC also stated that the two players, who were training with the Italian national team at the Coverciano Federal Training Centre in Florence, have been allowed to return to their respective clubs.<\/p>\n The FIGC noted that they were \u201cnot in the necessary condition to face the matches scheduled for the next few days,\u201d and the federation has therefore decided, \u201calso for their protection,\u201d to allow them to return to their respective clubs.<\/p>\n Tonali, who is a midfielder with Newcastle United, joined the club from AC Milan in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n Zaniolo, meanwhile, plays as an attacking midfielder at Aston Villa on loan from Galatasaray.\u00a0<\/p>\n The alleged bets were placed when they still played in Serie A, with Milan and Roma, respectively.<\/p>\n All players in Italy are strictly prohibited from betting on any football events associated with the FIGC, FIFA, and UEFA.\u00a0<\/p>\n Under the FIGC\u2019s code of conduct,\u00a0a\u00a0player found to have bet on football matches risks being banned for at least three years and fined at least \u20ac25,000.<\/p>\n Moreover, any sanctions imposed by the FIGC could potentially extend globally through FIFA.<\/p>\n Earlier this year,\u00a0Brentford striker Ivan Toney\u00a0admitted to 232 breaches of the Football Association\u2019s betting rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was subsequently fined \u00a350,000 and handed an eight-month ban.<\/p>\n <\/span> Italian football has been rocked by a betting scandal after Sandro Tonali and Nicol\u00f2 Zaniolo were sent home from Italy’s training camp. Italian football has been rocked by a developing betting scandal after Sandro Tonali and Nicol\u00f2 Zaniolo were sent back to their clubs from Italy\u2019s international training camp\u00a0yesterday (12 October).\u00a0 The move follows revelations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[116,117,118,119,120],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-betting","category-questbeam","tag-betting-scandal","tag-illegal-betting","tag-ivan-toney","tag-sandro-tonali","tag-unregulated-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questbeam.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Strict betting rules<\/h2>\n
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