Italian third-tier club Crotone under court control for Mafia infiltration

ROME: Italian third division soccer club Crotone has been placed under judicial administration for a year after police found “sufficient evidence” of pervasive Mafia infiltration, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Crotone, based in the southern Calabria region that is home to the powerful ‘Ndrangheta Mafia, sit seventh in Group C of the Serie C league on five points from four games. Crotone played in the top-flight Serie A for two consecutive seasons between 2016 and 2018 and again in 2020-2021.

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