The repentant Luigi Bonaventura explained it clearly to the prosecutors: “Controlling the team of your country brings prestige to the ‘ndrine, creates consensus, lays the foundations for the exchange vote”. And it is for all these reasons that “football has become the most loved sport by the mafias”, to quote Raffaele Cantone and Gianluca Di Feo, authors of Football Clan , the last four-handed essay by the judge threatened by the Camorra and the journalist of the And often, for years engaged in organized crime.