Many confessions and hidden truths revealed by Nicolò Fagioli, Juventus midfielderin the documentary ‘Fragile’ dedicated to the analysis and story of his gambling problems which led to a 7-month disqualification, which ended last May.
For example, the director of the Old Lady told how and when he began to understand that things were getting out of hand: “In September 2022, when I returned to Juventus from Cremonese. I continued to escape from problems but the sums became bigger and bigger… I didn’t want to admit it to myself, when I won I repaid what I had lost before. I went on like this for months and in at my worst I spent 12-13 hours on the phone, it seemed like a lot less. There were times when I stayed up at night to play and stayed in my room alone during the day so he wouldn’t see it it was 10 thousand euros at once: however, it is not so much the bets themselves, but the frequency. The money was added up and it became more and more up to hundreds of thousands of euros. I understood that if I went on we were talking about all the money that I earned, I practically had to play football to pay for these things here. And coming from a normal family, I was sorry for having thrown away all this money, but more than anything it was the problem in relationships, I realized that I was very nervous.”
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