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There’s a long year to be spent. Cosa Nostra and football in Palermo

Vincenzo ScaliaDepartment of Applied Social Sciences, Forensics and Politics, University of Winchester, Winchester, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 693-703 | Published online: 18 Oct 2020
 
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ABSTRACT

This article focuses on the relations between the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and football in Palermo. Through the analysis of the judicial file of a case dating back to 2007, the author shows how the control of the territory, through extortions against the Palermo football club, matter to the Sicilian mafia more than an involvement in the football business. The article highlights two level of relations between the mafia and football: the intermediation for the mafia, which is made by legal actors to grant Cosa Nostra its territorial sovereignty; the intermediation by the mafia, when Cosa Nostra intervenes on behalf of some actors who are part of the mafia network.

Acknowledgments

My acknowledgements go to Salvo Palazzolo for providing me with the material necessary to develop this work.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

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2. Petrini, Nel Fango del Dio Pallone

3. RNGNR 227/2007, 151.

4. Block, East Side, West Side. Organizing Crime in New York City.

5. Catanzaro, Il Delitto come Impresa. Storia Sociale Della Mafia.

6. Sciarrone, Mafie Vecchie, Mafie Nuove.

7. Ruggiero, Economie Sporche.

8. Santino, Mafia and Antimafia.

9. Scalia, Crime, Networks and Power.

10. Varese, Mafie in Movimento.

12. Altheide, Qualitative Media Analysis.

13. RNGNR 227/2007, 329.

14. ‘La Mafia Siciliana’, Direzione Investigativa Antimafia, 1 July 2018, http://direzioneinvestigativaantimafia.interno.gov.it/

15. Coleman, ‘Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital’.

16. RNGNR 227/2007, 307.

17. Ibid., 332.

18. Ibid., 330.

19. Bellinazzo, La Fine del Calcio Italiano.

20. RNGNR 227/2007, 440–441.

21. Gambetta, La Mafia SIciliana

22. Sciarrone, Mafie Vecchie, Mafie Nuove, 46.

23. Granovetter, cit.

24. Catanzaro, Il Delitto come impresa, 72.; Block, East Side. West Side, 36.

25. Santino, La Mafia. Le Mafie; Santoro, La Voce del Padrino.

26. Gambetta, La Mafia Siciliana, 22.

27. Ruggiero, Economie Sporche, 84.

28. RNGNR 227/2007, 358–361.

29. RNGNR 227/07, 364.

30. RNGNR 227/2007, 344.

31. RNGNR 227/20007, 349.

32. RNGNR 227/07, 377–79.

33. RNGNR 227/2007, 352.

34. Ibid., 379.

35. Ibid., 382–384.

36. Goffmann, L’Interazione in Pubblico.

37. RNGNR 227/2007, 385.

38. RNGNR 2227/2007, 395–397.

39. RNGNR 227/2007, 404.

40. Ibid., 410.

41. Ibid., 412.

42. Ibid., 350.

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