AFP, Milan :
Former Juventus and Italy forward Vincenzo Iaquinta was jailed for two years by an Italian court on Wednesday and his father Giuseppe for 19 years following a trial of 148 people for alleged mafia links.
Prosecutors had sought a six-year sentence for the 38-year-old, who was part of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning squad, for holding firearms and for alleged links with the Ndrangheta mafia group.
Iaquinta was found guilty of a firearms offence but judges dismissed accusations that he was involved with the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s organised crime network based in the southern region of Calabria.
However, the court in the northern city of Reggio Emilia ruled that his father did have mafia links.
