1970-01-01 00:00:00
The heir of the House of Savoy and owner of Real Aversa reported food poisoning that his players allegedly suffered during the away match in Ragusa, in the match valid for the Serie D championship. It was a salvation clash won 6-0 by Ragusa, which forced Emanuele Filiberto’s Real Aversa into relegation. The answer: “Serious statements, unacceptable words”
“What happened yesterday is something unheard of and, from my point of view, it is also an attack on my person as well as on the city of Aversa. They poisoned my team”. This is the accusation launched in a note by Prince Emanuele Filiberto, owner of Real Aversa (serie D) following the match once morest Ragusa lost 6-0 yesterday in Sicily which cost the relegation; a result that the prince attributes to an intoxication that has seized all the players. “We decided to send the team directly to the city of Ragusa, in a well-known city hotel – notes the prince – precisely to make them settle, being a city 600 meters above sea level, but we might never have imagined that in 2023 this might happen similar things. I don’t want to make any inferences, but the only sure thing is that all our players are all in hospital. During the return journey, following many stops to vomit, it was necessary to take them to the hospital in Salerno and unfortunately they were all hospitalized”.
The press release
After the illnesses felt in the morning by the Real Aversa athletes, a manager of the Campania team had asked to be able to postpone the match, with a negative result. “At that point – continues Emanuele Philibert – having no alternatives, they tried to field players full of drugs in order to play the match, they even had to put a player in place of the goalkeeper under. I hope there is clarity and justice here. We have already denounced the structure that hosted us, and now we will immediately file a complaint to have the match replayed and we will report everything to the federal prosecutor’s office”.
Ragusa’s response: “Serious claims”
“The President of Asd Ragusa Calcio, Giuseppe Trapani and the club’s sports doctor have mandated lawyers Fabrizio Cavallo and Francesco Guastella to file a lawsuit once morest Dr. Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia, owner of the Real Aversa team, for the serious statements disclosed at the end of the match that took place in Ragusa – reads the response statement released by the club -, and which saw the two teams involved in the play-outs of the Serie D championship as protagonists”. The note reads that “the management of Asd Ragusa football considers the words of Dr. unacceptable and delusional. Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy which suggests that there was even a sort of conspiracy hatched by Asd Ragusa football, which would have led to the poisoning of its players who for this reason would have lost the match in question”.
The doctor in the emergency room and on the bench with Ragusa
According to the long note published by Emanuele Filiberto, two members of Real Aversa who went to the Ragusa hospital on the morning of the match they would be States visited by a doctor later recognized on the bench of Ragusa Calcio himself at 3 pm, the start time of the match: “Before the game, two of our players had gone to the emergency room in Ragusa, where the doctor on duty had communicated a waiting time of six hours before the results of the exams” – we read – “refusing to assist other players under the same conditions”. The same then seen, in the words of Emanuele Filiberto, on the opponents’ bench (“I sincerely hope that it was not the same doctor, but that it was only a double”). By the way, the response also came from the local health authority, which denied that there was a doctor in the emergency room that morning: “Following a visual reassessment by the Triage nurse at 10.31am, the only male doctor on duty received the patient at 11.03am.” The ASP reiterated that “no female doctor was present inside the Emergency Department. Any subsequent reconstruction, therefore, is devoid of any foundation”.
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