They wanted to slap him, they mimicked the gesture of cutting his throat. He was prevented from taking a penalty. Some home ultras have entered the pitch of the “Zaccheria” in search of the ex, Pietro Iemmello. A real manhunt. Madness a Foggiain the match against the rivals of the Catanzaro. Field invasions, insults, attempted assaults, launching smoke bombs and bottles. The hooligans were blocked just in time, while the teammates made a wall around the center forward.
It all started at 5-1 for the guests. On the spot went Iemmello, already author of a brace. In Foggia they called him “The King”. Never forgiven by the violent who entered the field (forcing the referee to suspend the match), for a change of shirt with the flavor of “betrayal” and for the relegation of the Apulian team to Lega Pro in 2019. The forward who grew up in Fiorentina is was threatened with death. They tried to slap him, but they couldn’t. Afraid, he decided not to take the penalty anymore.
A few minutes later, at 6-1 (Foggia will score another goal, before the end), Iemmello was replaced between the whistles and more. He was forced to go back to the locker room alone, crying. Escorted by Digos agents, to prevent another attempted assault. Possible, because before the final whistle other criminals made a second invasion of the field. The referee re-established relative calm (one of Zeman’s collaborators expelled) managed to end the postponement of the thirty-sixth day of Group C of the Lega Pro, which lasted more than 105 minutes. A night of madness and violence in Foggia.
The background of the violent supporters of Foggia
However, this is not the first episode of violence and delinquency in recent years around football, in Foggia. At the end of 2020 the captain’s home door, Federico Gentile, it was doused with flammable liquid and burned. Only the last of the intimidations against the players, for an unwelcome corporate management. Their fault? None. Violent typhus protested for the failure to sell, by the president Roberto Felleca, of the share package to the Bari entrepreneur Nicola Canonico, former owner of Bisceglie. Before Gentile it was the turn of Iemmello (burnt SUV), Busellato (firecracker in the garden), and the Sannella brothers, historic club patrons (firecrackers against their Maserati). Without forgetting, in 2018, the Antifamily investigations related topurchase of two boys close to the clansan event for which the former Foggia coach Roberto De Zerbi was also heard.
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