Professional Piacenza suffers probably the most devastating loss in Italian Soccer Historical past attributable to a crippling monetary disaster.
Italy’s third division is the place the place soccer headlines come alive. Within the strangest sporting incident, I can recall seeing in a while, AS Professional Piacenza misplaced a sport to their rivals Cuneo as a result of they could not subject sufficient gamers – the explanation for his or her depleted roster: an organized boycott by the squad’s gamers and coaches over unpaid wages.
Possession inevitably determined to go forward with their scheduled league match, they risked muddying up an already horrible monetary scenario. So, Professional Piacenza scrapped collectively the minimal quantity required gamers to subject a pressional group and took to the street. 6 the 7 gamers they fielded have been beneath the age 18, together with the group’s advert hoc captain and coach – the one full-fledged grownup that suited up was the 39-year-old gear supervisor who got here on in reduction an out–breath teenager.
By halftime, Professional Piacenza was already down 16-Zero, with the sport ending on a 20-Zero scoreline thanks to a couple late roster additions, made potential by the diligent administrative employees working all through the sport to safe extra gamers. Whereas this could be the “black web page” Italian media shops are touting it, this is not the lone blotch on Professional Piacenza’s report this season. The membership has already forfeited three video games this season because of the “starvation strike,” and may this 20-Zero contest be voided, they might danger being demoted to the 4th division, with speedy impact.