The Real Star Of Mike Piazza’s Doomed Foray Into Italian Soccer Is His Wife
Photo: Rob Kim (Getty) Over at The Athletic, author Robert Andrew Powell wrote an entertaining and comprehensive story about Mike Piazza’s disastrous two-year tenure as owner of third-tier Italian soccer team Reggio Emilia, and it has everything: Piazza’s obvious desire to recapture the thrill of his playing days (Piazza after a game: “I’ve never done cocaine, I’ve never done crystal meth, I’ve never done hard drugs, or any drugs for that matter besides aspirin. But let me tell you, that was fucking intoxicating.”); the implicit corruption of the business of Italian soccer (“It’s a jungle,”...
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