Serie A Midfielder sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual abuse
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Manolo Portanova
From making his debut for Juventus as an academy player to being an alleged rape convict, the career of Serie A player Manolo Portanova has gone down to pieces in three years. A report took the footballing world by a sense of surprise and shock in June 2021, five months after Portanova joined Genoa- Serie A. The headline mentioned a few words, like Portanova, rape, and arrested. If one looked into the details of the matter, a keen eye interpreted that Portanova had been accused of gang-raping a 21-year-old woman at a house party in Siena. The player got arrested while he was enjoying his vacation on Sienna.
Other than the player, two adults, including a relative of the midfielder and a 17-year-old, were reported to have participated in the horrendous crime that had taken place in Siena’s city center on May 30, 2021. In the start, Portanova was kept under house arrest, but the decision was overthrown later. As things stand, the midfielder has been sentenced to prison for six years, and the other accused will pay a sum of 120,000 Euros to the victim and her family.
The controversial question remains why the Serie A team Genoa has continued to field Portanova despite understanding the extent of these heinous allegations and rape charges. The record of the matches displays that the player has played 20 games overall, contributing 1,177 minutes of playing time in the season in Serie A thus far. After getting accused, he has started almost every game for Geona, with his last appearance for The Grifone coming in their 2-0 defeat to Hellas Verona in the Serie A.
The young player had a bright career that seems to be destroyed now, and the jail time might get a little harder for the Italian; who would have thought when the commentators made the beautiful commentary on his Debut with Juventus, which later took him to Genoa? The dreams and fame will all be thrown into gutters for the player, and a stain like this might never get off.
The Serie A midfielder joins the unfortunate list of players
Benjamin Mendy, the Manchester City player, has been accused of seven counts of rape, one count of attempted rape, and one count of sexual assault against six young women. The star, currently out of the World Cup for France, allegedly locked women in “panic rooms” at his mansion in Cheshire when he hosted parties. The court has even mentioned that the reason is still the mind, as the man quickly gets what he wants because of the status that he’s achieved.
Once considered one of the most exciting and talented English forwards of his generation, Mason Greenwood is now charged with attempted rape and coercive behavior and is set to face trial in 2023. He made four appearances for England under-21s and one for the senior England men’s team, lining up against Iceland in a Uefa Nations League game aged 18. After his arrest, sports giants like Nike naturally ended its sponsorship deal with Greenwood and Electronic Arts removed him from active squads in its Fifa 22 game.
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Akshat Pandey
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