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June 21, 2002
Perugia Backpedals Over Ahn.: It seems Perugia may be regretting its initial comments about Ahn in the wake of Italy's defeat at the World Cup.
Does this mean that Panini will resume issuing Italy stickers? I'm short 5 - one diver, one ham, one prima donna, one long-haired girly and one bad loser. :-)
posted by squealy at 08:56 PM on June 21, 2002
Sounds more like damage control, after reading this LA Times article yesterday (login: "cpunks", password: "cpunks"). Here are the salient parts: "I am not extending his contract, he does not merit it," Gaucci said. "When he arrived he was like a little lost goat who didn't even have the money to buy a sandwich. He became rich without doing anything exceptional and then, at the World Cup, he denigrated Italian football. "I would have to pay three billion lire [$1.53 million] to extend his contract. But I won't. Ahn will never play for Perugia again. "What do you think I would do? That I would keep a player who ruined Italian football? He should have shown his talents when he was with us. He'll just have to go back to Korea and earn 100,000 lire [about $48] a month." Them grapes are so sour they're making Gaucci's bunghole pucker.
posted by ShinyKnows at 09:23 PM on June 21, 2002
I'm only posting here because the last four words in a thread should never be "making Gaucci's bunghole pucker".
posted by Samsonov14 at 01:31 AM on June 22, 2002
Oh, sorry. My bad.
posted by Samsonov14 at 01:32 AM on June 22, 2002
Here is the link to the original article, an interview with Perugia vice president Alessandro Gaucci. The whole affair seems to be just a misunderstanding. Or, some damage control by Perugia.