Italian soccer club receives severed pig head, threatening note in the mail

An Italian soccer membership obtained a supply within the mail that included a severed pig’s head and a threatening letter.

Sampdoria, a group in Italy’s Serie A, obtained the package deal that was delivered in a field to membership headquarters this week from an unknown sender.

Within the field was the pig head and a notice addressed to former membership president Massimo Ferrero and present membership vp Antonio Rome. The notice learn, “the subsequent heads will likely be yours,” in response to a membership spokesman.

The soccer membership known as the police to report the supply, the spokesman stated.

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“UC Sampdoria expresses profound outrage and indignation within the face of one more critical act of intimidation that came about this morning on the firm headquarters in Piazza Borgo Pila,” the group wrote in a press release on Saturday.

“The corporate underlines that any sort of assault on a member of the Board of Administrators represents an assault on all its members, on their work and on the seriousness and abnegation with which they’ve approached this vital place,” the assertion continued.

This isn’t the primary time the membership has obtained a threatening package deal this 12 months. In January a clean bullet was delivered to Sampdoria’s places of work with threats concentrating on Ferrero and former membership proprietor Edoardo Garrone.

The notice to former membership president Massimo Ferrero and present vp Antonio Rome learn, “the subsequent heads will likely be yours.” (Getty)

Ferrero stepped down as membership president in 2021 after he was arrested on monetary expenses ensuing from a probe into alleged chapter crimes. However his arrest was unrelated to membership operations, permitting him to keep up management group by way of household holdings.

The 71-year-old has been criticized by followers who declare he’s exhausting Sampdoria’s funds and refusing to promote the membership to new homeowners who might be able to rescue it from monetary and efficiency failures.

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Followers of Sampdoria wave their flags previous to a match’s kick-off. (Getty)

Sampdoria’s efficiency this season has additionally pissed off followers, because the membership holds the nineteenth spot within the Serie A desk and in critical hazard of relegation. The membership has scored simply 11 factors by way of 23 matches and is eight factors behind the present mark wanted to remain up in Italy’s prime league.

Menacing packages have beforehand been despatched to different Italian golf equipment as nicely. The sporting director of Palermo obtained a goat’s head in 2006. And in 1999, the president of Reggina was delivered the pinnacle of a bull. 

Reuters contributed to this report.