Italian Serie A strugglers Sampdoria won a sinister caution from an unknown supply on Saturday when a severed pig’s head used to be brought to the membership’s headquarters.
The “Godfather”-style reward used to be present in a field at the side of a message addressed to former membership president Massimo Ferrero and present vice-president Antonio Romei studying “the following heads might be yours”, a spokesman for the membership stated.
“The police have been referred to as to the scene,” he added.
In a observation, Sampdoria expressed “profound outrage and indignation within the face of but some other severe act of intimidation”.
Final month, a clean bullet used to be brought to Sampdoria’s workplaces accompanied through threats towards Ferrero and Edoardo Garrone, a prior proprietor of the membership.
Ferrero, who nonetheless controls Sampdoria by means of a circle of relatives preserving, resigned from his place after he used to be arrested in 2021 on monetary fees unrelated to soccer. The 71-year-old has angered fanatics who say he’s operating down Sampdoria’s budget and refusing to promote the membership to new homeowners able to rescuing it from monetary and wearing crisis.
The Genoa-based facet recently take a seat second-bottom of the desk on 11 issues after 23 video games, 8 issues adrift of protection, and are severely in need of money.
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They subsequent trip to fifth-placed Lazio on Monday.
Different Italian groups have confronted identical intimidation prior to now. The wearing director of Palermo used to be despatched a severed goat’s head in 2006, whilst in 1999 the president of Reggina won a bull’s head.