Trezeguet: Lucky in Front of Goal, Not So Much With the Blackmailers

Is this sort of thing rampant in other leagues and the papers just don’t report it, or is Italy the hotbed of footballer blackmail that it seems? (Needless to say, I prefer the second option. Anything to make calcio that much crazier.) Whatever the truth, it’s happened again — this time the player caught in a compromising position with a woman “not the moglie” was Juve’s David Trezeguet, who just can’t stay out of the papers these days.

In order to keep said compromising photos from being published, Trez paid — get this — €25,000 million. TWENTY-FIVE MILLION THOUSAND EUROS. Goddamn. Those must have been some photos, that’s all I’m sayin’. This whole debacle has only become public, as far as I can tell, as a result of an initially unrelated criminal investigation that has something to do with the Gilardino blackmail episode from December — if it wasn’t for the meddling law, the €25,000 million would have done the trick. (Also, a note for Italian-speakers: Does the article really say that someone wants to keep Gila from leaving the country?! Is he in trouble for something? Google is no help here at all.)

In the face of this little payout, Trezeguet’s desperation for a bigass contract takes on a whole new meaning. While he’s surely not surviving on ramen, he’s gotta be a little peeved about losing a chunk of cash that big for doing something so stupid — a big old contract from, say, Inter would probably go a long way towards making him feel like slightly less of a (poorer) ass.

Edit: Thanks to Laurie for helping sort though the translation of the number of zeros on the end of the 25. For what it’s worth, Gila only paid €6,000 for the pics of his little indiscretion, so by the math of blackmail, whatever Trezeguet did was several times worse — begin speculation.

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