Eight years ago, Massimo Cellino was supposed to advance the second division club Brescia Calcio. Instead, he drove the club to the abyss.
The traditional Italian club Brescia Calcio is facing bankruptcy proceedings after 114 years of club history. The reason: financial irregularities. As the Ansa news agency reports, club president Massimo Cellino has rejected to pay outstanding player salaries of the past two months. In addition to a six -month professional lock, the Figc sports court set him a deadline. This ran on Friday – without receipt of payment. Now the exclusion from professional football threatens.
According to media reports, the Lombardy Association has debt of three million euros. Cellino, who took over Brescia eight years ago, had already announced that the club no longer wanted to make any financial resources available to the club. The Italian newspaper “Gazzetta Dello Sport” wrote: “If nothing unforeseen happens, Cellino will leave a trace of devastation and wipe out history for 114 years.”
The “Gazzetta” commented: “The president himself pulled the plug.” The anger in an “unbelieving city” is great. Brescia captain Dimitri Bisoli also turned to the public in an angry statement: “Today, 114 years of history were kicked with feet, but Brescia is not (Cellino, Note d. Red.), We are Brescia, and that’s why Brescia will never die, “he wrote on social networks.
The relegation in the Italian series B was actually done. However, the sports court announced a point deduction from four points at the end of May because of the financial inconsistencies. Brescia ranked 18 out of 20 and rose to the third division.
The relegation would also reorganize the relegation of series B: Actually, Frosinone Calcio and Us Salernitana had played the decision -making games that Frosinone would be saved by Brescia’s descent. The traditional traditional club Sampdoria Genoa would get the chance to rescue against Salernitana.
Now Brescia stands, should no longer find an investor, for the first time before insolvency proceedings and is expected to be excluded from professional professional football. On June 10, the club will appeal before the Federal Supreme Court. According to a report by “Sport1”, a solution is to be found by June 26th.
Whether Brescia, in the past of former internationals such as Andrea Pirlo, Luca Toni and Roberto Baggio, was allowed to start the lombard club or not, will be shown.