Author Talk with Anton Monti - Ultras - Violence and Mafia in Italian Football Stadiums

Welcome to hear Anton Monti's author talk at Salonki on Thursday 17.9. from 6 p.m.

The most passionate football fan groups are called ultras. The name means extreme. Ultras value loyalty, community, and independence, seeing themselves as the soul of their football clubs. In Italy, even club executives have to listen to them.

At their worst, people die and are injured in clashes between ultras. However, shortly after the pandemic, new and even more dangerous players appeared in Italian football stadiums. Mafia representatives had noticed that ultras held power. They wanted that power for themselves - by any means necessary.

Anton Monti's chilling non-fiction book reveals how corruption, violence, and drug trafficking became entrenched in Italian football and how the mafia infiltrated it all.