Inside Serie A’s Illegal Betting Pyramid Scheme

The full story of how football players at Milan, Juventus, and others acted as recruiters and promoters for illegal betting sites, ensnaring at least a dozen others.

The illegal betting scandal currently rocking Italy’s Serie A has a lot of similarities with a pyramid scheme, albeit at a small scale. It hasn’t been reported widely as such, but let’s look at how it worked.

So how did the illegal betting ring work?