Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Oh My, Lazio's So Gangsta


Lazio's come a long way in the past couple of years. The Italian soccer club finally changed ownership. It finally fielded a black player after the previous owner was threatened by the club's ultras for trying to sign black French international Lilian Thuram. That was in this decade. Best of all, it almost mobbed up.

The Casalesi clain of the Camorra, the Naples version of the Mafia, tried to buy Lazio through third parties. The plan came to light when 10 people including former Lazio player and president Giorgio Chinaglia were served with arrest warrants by police. Chinaglia has been on the lam from the coppers in the US ever since being nailed for market-rigging that was related to the attempted bid for the club.

The police operation was named Broken Wings. We presume the police are big fans of Mr. Mister. Maybe they imitate the dance scenes from the video when they're hiding from the mob in the police station. You got to learn to fly. Learn to live, to love so free, carabinieri.

In other Italy news, this is simply shameful and disgusting.

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