Lauricella junior was sentenced last month to seven years in prison for his role in the crime by the same appeals court.Around the time the accusations came to light in 2013, Italian daily La Repubblica revealed wiretapped conversations in which Miccoli called murdered anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone “filth”.Falcone, a national hero in Italy for the way he and long-time friend Paolo Borsellino fought the Sicilian Mafia, was killed along with his wife and three police escorts in a massive bomb blast in Capaci, outside Palermo in 1992.He and Borsellino, who was also assassinated by the Mafia in another bomb attack only a few weeks later, convicted over 300 mobsters in Italy’s first “Maxi Trial”, which ended in early 1992.Striker Miccoli, now 42, is Palermo’s all-time top goalscorer and also played for Juventus and Fiorentina in Serie A. He played 10 times for Italy between 2003 and 2004, netting twice.
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