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How (Not) To Reverse Your Three-Year Soccer Ban: A Hunger Strike

Italian soccer has been overwhelmed by match-fixing scandals in recent years, and the latest controversy involving former Siena and current Verona defender Emanuele Pesoli is no exception. The 31-year-old Pesoli received a three-year ban on Friday (Pesoli’s manager at Siena, Antonio Conte, now the manager of Juventus, received a 10-month ban for not reporting the match-fixing antics) from the FIGC, effectively ending his career. So Pesoli did what any desperate, accused criminal would do: he stopped eating.


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