Italy’s football federation has banned Newcastle’s Sandro Tonali from playing football for 10 months for breaking the country’s gambling regulations and ordered that the midfielder must spend the following eight months continuing a rehabilitation programme.
This latter period, with the final portion “commuted to alternative therapies”, will involve Tonali making at least 16 trips to Italy to talk to players at assorted levels of football about the dangers of betting, in addition to visiting addiction clinics.
