Lucarelli: “This is not football betting, the Italian information is distorted. I saw this on my son.”

Ternana will take the field tomorrow and face Brescia on the 10th day of the Serie B championship. During the press conference, filmed ternananews.it, Fere’s coach Cristiano Lucarelli speaks out about the chaos in betting: “I have never felt a strange climate. Clarification: every football player can open a gambling account. Gambling addiction is a disease of many, not just players. I have friends who ruined their lives on horses or in underground gambling dens. Addiction to gambling is a real problem, I’m surprised that players are considered supermen. They are people like everyone else. Your day is spent training for two hours, then you don’t go to the disco, you have no social life.

In short, you have time. It would be enough to do everything right. Example: in Spain, when I played, if it was approaching the last day of the championship and one team needed to motivate the other, it was enough to inform the League that there was an incentive. The Italian information is distorted, I went through this with my son. This is where the message about football betting is conveyed. But it’s not that. We are talking about something else here.”

The mention of his son Mattia (current defender of Pro Livorno Sorgenti in Eccellenza) relates to how he – then a Livorno player in Serie D – was placed under house arrest on charges of gang violence for being sent to court on March 31.