Italy defender Armando Izzo was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after being found guilty of assisting an organised crime group from Naples to fix a match.
Izzo, who currently plays for Monza in Serie A, will be able to appeal the sentence which is not considered definitive in the Italian judicial system.
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He was ruled to have helped fix the Serie B match between Modena and his then team Avellino in the 2013-14 season with two other players, according to Italian news agencies.
The 31-year-old, who has played three times for Italy, was found guilty by a court in Naples of collusion with the Camorra, the city’s mafia organisation.
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