Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images A soccer ball seen in Florence, Italy, last year. (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images) By Flint McColgan | flint.mccolgan@bostonherald.comPUBLISHED: March 20, 2024 at 12:40 p.m. | UPDATED: March 20, 2024 at 12:57 p.m.A Marlboro man has been convicted of mayhem for nearly cutting a friend’s hand off with a machete over a disagreement over a soccer game last year. A Middlesex Superior Court jury found Abel Hernandez, 41, guilty of threatening to commit a crime and mayhem after a four day trial. Judge Catherine Ham sentenced him to four to five years in state prison for…