Nicolò Fagioli, Juventus midfielderrevealed himself in the documentary ‘Fragile’, made during his 7-month disqualification for gambling addiction, in particular in the last days before returning to the field in May 2024 in Bologna, and on Amazon Prime for a couple of days.
Among other things, he also told the origins of the problem he had to live with: “I started playing at 16 by making bets with friends, but it was a stupid way to pass the time. Over the years it got worse, it became more frequent: I woke up wanting to go and bet. In the Under 23s I started to play more money than normal. And I didn’t do it to win, at the beginning, I didn’t need the money but the adrenaline it gave me. I was at Cremonese in January and it stayed for a month home, it had become It was automatic to bet a lot every day and I started to understand that I might have some problems. I went to Sert to talk to someone but it didn’t seem very useful to me, I thought I didn’t need specialized people to get out of this thing.”
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