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.

posted by 007 to general at 08:17 PM - 5 comments

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.

posted by 007 at 08:24 PM on June 21, 2002

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

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