In the history of football and sport in general, many times we have seen former players who have had important careers, fame and notoriety, fall into the abyss of illegality.

Many stories are connected to the events relating to football betting, but there have also been episodes of violence or financial illegality.

Well, here comes another name to this list: it is that of Luigi Sartor.

The former side back of Vicenza, Inter, Parma and AS Roma, now 46, was placed under house arrest by the Guardia di Finanza.

The reason? Well, very unusual.

Sartor was using an abandoned farmhouse in Lesignano Palmia, near Parma, to grow marijuana.

The police even counted 106 plants that the former footballer was treating together with an accomplice of him.

Not even were the protagonists of the Saving Grace movie...

The two were discovered after some reports.

The first concerns the request to double the power of the electricity meter, which is quite unusual for an abandoned and uninhabited cottage.

The second refers to reports from neighbors who had noticed the lights on throughout the structure even at night and also a strange smell coming from the farmhouse of Sartor.

Putting together all the pieces available, the investigators started the investigations and also organized a targeted checkpoint, during which they recognized the same suspicious smell inside the player's car.

Sartor has chosen to make use of the right not to answer, but it is really difficult to imagine that he can get out of this story without consequences.

Incidentally, the former defender had already had trouble with the law before.

The Cremona Public Prosecutor ordered his arrest (and then house arrest) in 2011. The crime then went into prescription in 2019.

He was also accused of mistreatment by his former partner, was sentenced to 9 months in prison and then acquitted of stalking because "the fact did not exist".

In short, bad stories for a very over the top character with a troubled soul.

That today he is the protagonist of another sad and nothing short of unusual news page.