Genoa’s Izzo banned over match-fixing
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Genoa
defender Armando Izzo has been banned from soccer for 18 months and
fined €50 000 over match-fixing allegations, the Italian FA said on
Wednesday.
The 25-year-old was punished for
knowing and not disclosing that there was a match-fixing agreement when
he was playing for US Avellino 1912 in the Italian Serie B
(second-tier) in the 2013-14 season.
Italian media quoted Izzo's lawyer as saying he would appeal against the punishment.
The Italian football
federation's disciplinary tribunal
opted not to impose the full sanction
of a six-year ban requested by its prosecutor last month. It had been
investigating two matches played by Avellino in May 2014.
"The reluctance shown by Izzo to
deny the events and circumstances ... suggest that there is proof at
least of his actual knowledge of the ongoing attempts aimed at altering
the normal pattern of the games in question," the disciplinary tribunal
said in a statement.
Izzo was called up to the Italian national squad last November but did not make the team.
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