Fabrizio Miccoli: “A day in prison is infinite”

“12 years ago I made a big mistake. One of those mistakes that change your life. I had everything. I was the captain of Palermo, I did the job I had always dreamed of doing since I was a child and the people of Palermo made me feel at home. home”. These are the words of the former Palermo captain and former Lecce striker, Fabrizio Miccoli, on his Instagram page, after having obtained the probationary assignment to social services from the Surveillance Court and having returned to the province of Lecce, following the sentence definitive three years and three months of imprisonment on charges of extortion aggravated by the mafia method. Miccoli was in prison for six months. “In these 12 very long years I have always preferred silence. I have read everything but I have never replied – writes Miccoli – When you are a footballer in Serie A you have a lot of attention. Many people want a piece of you. Many know you but you don’t you know anyone. You don’t know who you can trust. In reality I made more than one mistake. The first big mistake was to always be available to everyone. Those who lived in Palermo in those years .. know “. “The second mistake was to use the wrong words, words that I never thought and never will think,” he continues. The reference is to the insults to Giovanni Falcone. “Often when you are at the top you feel invincible .. instead you are only human. I apologized some time ago for those words and I do it again. Last year the sentence arrived. Sentence that I did not share because I felt distant and I am far away from that world, but a sentence that I respected by spontaneously appearing the next day in a maximum security prison, again by choice, to serve my sentence. 1 day in there seems infinite, 6/7 months .. an eternity. I have discounted the greatest in these 12 years, every day, in seeing myself approached to something that I am not and that does not belong to me “, adds the former striker.” A few weeks ago I returned to freedom. I do not ask to be understood , I am not asking that what happened is forgotten. This is not what I want to achieve with this letter. I just want, after 12 long years, to clarify my position, to have my say rather than to have others say it. I want to thank my two lawyers Antonio Savoia (court of Lecce) and Giulia Solenni (court of Verona). I want to thank my fans who have not asked for explanations in recent years, have supported me and shown a love and affection that I never would have thought. I thank the many people who have helped me above all Pierpaolo Mengoli and Giovanni Fasano with their respective families for all the support given. But above all I want to thank my family, my wife Flaviana, and my children Swami and Diego for always being there. Being away from them was awful. Like on the pitch … after a defeat you cannot replay the game you just lost, but you can train and try to do better in the next game. I am almost 43 years old and I hope to still have many games to recover and show the real Fabrizio Miccoli “, he concludes.