Pig’s head delivered to Serie A’s beleaguered Sampdoria

Italian Serie A strugglers Sampdoria acquired a sinister warning from an unknown supply on Saturday when a severed pig’s head was delivered to the membership’s headquarters.

The “Godfather”-style present was present in a field together with a message addressed to former membership president Massimo Ferrero and present vice-president Antonio Romei studying “the next heads will be yours”, a spokesman for the membership stated.

“The police were called to the scene,” he added.

In a press release, Sampdoria expressed “profound outrage and indignation in the face of yet another serious act of intimidation”.

Last month, a clean bullet was delivered to Sampdoria’s workplaces accompanied by threats towards Ferrero and Edoardo Garrone, a earlier proprietor of the membership.

Ferrero, who nonetheless controls Sampdoria by way of a household holding, resigned from his place after he was arrested in 2021 on monetary costs unrelated to soccer. The 71-year-old has angered followers who say he’s working down Sampdoria’s funds and refusing to promote the membership to new homeowners able to rescuing it from monetary and sporting catastrophe.

The Genoa-based facet at the moment sit second-bottom of the desk on 11 factors after 23 video games, eight factors adrift of security, and are critically in need of money.

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They subsequent journey to fifth-placed Lazio on Monday.

Other Italian groups have confronted related intimidation up to now. The sporting director of Palermo was despatched a severed goat’s head in 2006, whereas in 1999 the president of Reggina acquired a bull’s head.