{"id":22534,"date":"2023-02-27T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/27\/sampdoria-receives-pigs-head-in-post\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:25:10","slug":"sampdoria-receives-pigs-head-in-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/02\/27\/sampdoria-receives-pigs-head-in-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Sampdoria Receives Pig&#8217;s Head In Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Massimo Ferrero<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Serie A strugglers Sampdoria received a sinister warning from an unknown source on Saturday when a severed pig\u2019s head was delivered to the club\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGodfather\u201d-style gift was found in a box along with a message addressed to former club president Massimo Ferrero and current vice president Antonio Romei reading \u201cthe next heads will be yours,\u201d a spokesman for the club said.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called to the scene, he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sampdoria expressed \u201cprofound outrage and indignation in the face of yet another serious act of intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a blank bullet was delivered to Sampdoria\u2019s offices accompanied by threats against Ferrero and Edoardo Garrone, a previous owner of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrero, who still controls Sampdoria via a family holding, resigned from his position after he was arrested in 2021 on financial charges unrelated to football.<\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old has angered fans who say he is running down Sampdoria\u2019s finances and refusing to sell the club to new owners capable of rescuing it from financial and sporting disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The Genoa-based side are second-bottom of the table on 11 points after 23 games, eight points adrift of safety, and are critically short of cash.<\/p>\n<p>They travel to fifth-placed Lazio today.<\/p>\n<p>Other Italian teams have faced similar intimidation in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The sporting director of Palermo was sent a severed goat\u2019s head in 2006, while in 1999 the president of Reggina received a bull\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massimo Ferrero \u00a0 Serie A strugglers Sampdoria received a sinister warning from an unknown source on Saturday when a severed pig\u2019s head was delivered to the club\u2019s headquarters. 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