The most mysterious and extraordinary story of Gaddhaff's son who had played in Serie A

Which super player would be sold fans at that price? Ziinedine Zidane, Francesco Totti or maybe Ronaldo? Or another early legend as a goalo of all time at Serie A, Silvio Piola?

It's none of the above mentioned. This fan, costing 10,000 euros, belonged to an attacker who scored no goal in four years as he spent at the Italian elite championship. He had only two official matches, and in both cases he stepped in as a replacement at the last minute. Under normal circumstances, such a player would be struggling to find a third league club that would accept his services, Periscope broadcasts.

But normal is an expression that shouldn't be used in this case, because there was nothing normal about Saadi Gaddhafi's career. Of course, not every player can father a dictator.

Luciano Gaucci owned Peugia and one of the most controversial figures in football history. He had once attempted to activate a female football player on his team, and he had even threatened to release Korean Ahn Jung-Fhan from his team, only because he had scored the goal he eliminated Italy from the World Cup in 2002.

These gaffes were still fresh in people's memory when Gaucci confirmed the news that he intends to sign with a member of the Gaddhafi family, just one year after the above-mentioned events, Periscope follows.

Saad, the third son of the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddhafi, had played soccer in his native country and had even been captain of the National Team, but rarely who (not to say anyone) had heard about it in Italy.

Suspects that his last name had a role more important than his talent were inevitable.

This young player of Peugia had unprecedented authority for such a modest player, which surprised everyone.

If an average Peuglia fan didn't know what to expect from Saadi, who chose his name instead of his last name to appear at the back of the fanla on the 19th number, hundreds had the chance to see him closely in calling the player to join his presentation ceremony publicly as the player of this team, which is common for world famous players when they switch team, but not for a team player who fights over the elite league.

However, Saad's presentation took place in June 2003 at a giant castle owned by the president of the club and attended by the most prominent broadcaster of the television world.

Emmanuele Berretton, was a young assailant who claimed to compete for a place in the Pedugia base formation, then he recalls how television Al Jazeera conveyed the player's training sessions day by day.

It was like a real TV show” he says. “But after a while we learned. He became football player like all of us.”

Well, maybe not exactly like everyone.

I remember one night he had problems with a injury and so easily and naturally he called Italy's best doctor for diagnosis,” said Beretton. “Doctor wanted to control it, so Saad took a helicopter and the next morning flew toward Milano (362 kilometers away). In the middle of the day, he conducted all checks and returned. He was present for training that afternoon.

He enjoyed rights like no other player. No team could dream from one night to the next to arrange a meeting with the best doctor in Italy, flying by helicopter and doing it all in one day.

There were other facts proving the normal lifestyle for a Peugia player. He drove a yellow Lamborghini and was accompanied by all the bodyguards. Supported by local police, his security staff patrolled the perimeter of his training area.

Saad had booked the whole first floor of Brufan's five-star hotel, and his accommodated room had such a great view to breathe. His room was positioned on top of a whole hill at his disposal.

He shared this Accommodation with his family, his associates and his two animals. Palace officials Brufani refused to comment on Saad's position, but during his career as a player of Udinese, a club he joined during the 2005/06 edition he had a private room only for his two cabinets and their coach.

His hotel in Udine was called La di Moret, where he also once reserved the entire floor. The manager, Eduardo Marin, describes Saadi as a good client but very demanding.

He came down the street at 1500 pm and wanted to have his steak ready,” he says. “So he was taught. Only in the world's best hotels you can have such services. ”

Saad's company also led extravagant lives. Salvatore Fres was a player who had joined Peugia in borrowing from Libya's elite league and stayed at Brufani Palace as well. He associated with Saad and spent time with him outside the training grounds.

On Wednesdays we had double training sessions,” says Fresie. Right after the second one, he told me in Italian, this evening you will come with me because that was the only thing he could say. Then he took one of his bodyguards [who spoke English and Italian] and explained: This evening we will go to Milano. )

“He owned a private plane at Peugia Airport. So he sent me to Milano to have dinner, and then in the morning we returned on his plane. We had dinner with him, went to a nice hotel, and spent time with some of his friends outside football. ”

Saad had once taken over the entire Peuglia team and sent them to a party in Monte Carlo to lobby for Libya, which sought to organise the World Cup in 2010. It's been said that the whole event was arranged for Saad to meet Nicole Kidman, but that last one hadn't come up.

However, these two dined together in 2005, which raised speculation that the couple were experiencing a romance, but that was denied by the actress's spokesman, Periscopi translates.

And ultimately it should also be said that each member of the club describes Saad as a very modest individual. In some cases, his wealth was even the object of his jokes with others.

He showed me a story about the time he visited Rome,” said Fres. He went out to walk and suddenly felt a pain in his stomach. What was his solution? He went into a hotel and rented a room just to use the toilet. He couldn't get into a restaurant and ask permission to use the bathroom, so he paid for a room, did what he had to do and left. ”

Another thing we can say is that Saad had a huge dose of enthusiasm for football. As Juventus' supporter, he was responsible for his family seeking to buy shares of the Banconer Club in 2002.

When his opportunity came to move to Pegway a year later, he willingly and enthusiastically accepted it. An offensive centre that imagined himself as an Alessandro Del Piero immediately began to be consulted by his offensive colleagues.

He had a great desire to learn,” said Bretton.

From time to time, Saad employed the former stager in 100 meters, Ben Johnson, who had won the gold medal at the 1988 Olympics, but then this medal was taken after resulting positive on tests to help him in his running exercises even Diego Maradona had worked to improve it in technical terms.

But neither did that affect Saad's physical training. He was simply unprepared for the life of a professional football player. For Fresie <x0... the best support I can give you is a 13-year-old who activates with a higher-level group. He tried to give 100%, but physically, he couldn't. He was always hurt in his muscles. ”

Saad never scored any greater achievement than an unused reserve during the first weeks of the season. Then, in early November, it proved positive in the use of the nanolones during a routine doping test. He was suspended by three months.

When he returned, the story was the same. Even for a team like Peugia listed on the lower side of the table, then coach Serse Cosmi did not need the services of such a modest attacker.

Or at least not until Peugia faced Juventus in April. This was the team that Saad mostly wanted to activate. His wish was granted, he was brought into play as a substitute in the last 15 minutes of the meeting.

The path was advancing 1-0 until Ciro Ferra was expelled red into Juventus' ranks. Gazeta dello Sport the same day joked that Saad's activism balanced the numeric gap in the field. He touched the ball several times and sought medical help after a duel with Pavel Nedved, but his impact on the case was minimal.

Then it was reported that Pegruia was forced to activate Saady for 15 minutes, as there was a clause in his contract saying he had to activate at least once. But that was denied by a club official. A group of players had formed a delegation they sent to Cosmi (Perugia coach) to ask that it give Saadi an opportunity.

It was our wish to see him play,” insists Fresie. We wanted to reward him because he worked hard. It was me and some other players who personally went and asked the coach to let him play. ”

The path fell from evil at the end of the season, and Fres left. Gaddafi stayed for another year in Serie B, but he never activated there. When it seemed that his soccer career had ended, he was surprisingly transferred to Udine. This club just named Cosmo a coach. This team was even qualified and would play the League Champions.

However, he again on this team found it difficult to have the desired green field minute at the middle of the season he returned home to deal with certain business issues.

Valerio Bertotto, Captain of Udine at the time, had the fan closet next to Saddam. He also says he was quite friendly but lacked everything a footballer needs to compete at such a level.

“Saad knew how football worked,” said Bertotto. He could take care of his ball and legs. And you know, his left leg, it wasn't even very, very, very weak. When he owned the ball and wanted to succeed, he did.

But physically, he had no structure to play soccer. He didn't have the power. He wasn't fast. If you don't have the physical qualities to be a football player, then you can't be. So no, he wasn't a footballer. He was a fan who was able to become a soccer player for a moment, but he wasn't really a football player. ”

Asked if Bertotto, who played as a defender, if Saad had ever scored against him in a training dreech, he had a shocking answer.

No. That was impossible,” says before he started laughing. I'm laughing, but that's the truth. ”

Saad had been activated for Udysse once. Cosmi was fired in February, and the club's new coach, Giovanni Galeone, said he would give Saady an opportunity only if in a match that would come too late, with his team and opponents who are not fighting for any real target like this, a place that sends to European races, or to avoid falling from evil.

This happened in the last match of Udinese at home against Cagalari. There were ironic cheers to Saady when he was interviewed in the 8th minute, but almost scored a goal when a volette was received by the doorman.

Caglari's goalie at the time, Antonio Chimenta, intervened to deny Saadi's moment of glory, until he pulled the ball off the corner.

That was the end of Saad's soccer career. Even though he passed to Sampdoria in the summer of 2006, he never activated there. He then held his 18th official match for the Libyan National later that year.

Statistics show that Saad had scored several goals for his country. And the best-documented moment of his career with the Nationals is his leaving field to leave the country another reserve.

Video footage shows Saad moving away from the field while holding hands with each rival player and officials of the Canada National. Then he kept hanging around the stadium.

Cameras shifted their focus as he turned to a police officer, who then sparked some reactions to the crowd.

“Is Saad still alive”?

It's not safe. But reliable reports cite that he is found in a prison in Libya and is awaiting trial under the amount of charges charged with the murder of former Libyan football player Basilal Rian, who disappeared in 2005. Africa News reported that his judgment was set in March but was postponed for 12 April, there were no further cases.

Among former colleagues in Italy, these charges are not credible. The most frequent phrase they use is that this isn't Saad they knew.

Fres, who had met with other Gaddafi family members when he visited Tripoli for the 2002 Supercopa, insists he had not noticed anything unusual in Saad's temperament.

Maybe we'll meet the youngest in Saad's life sometime if he still lives somewhere in Libyan prisons. In any case, his time in Peugia, Udinese and Sampdoria will remain a small chapter ignored and forgotten in European football history.

A very strange story, which makes us return to the subheading that we decided at the beginning of this article. What makes an EBay salesman think that a player's fan of Saad could be worth 10,000 euros. However, this arrangement was closed last month, since no one had made an offer.

On Pestria, in the fan name, Nico B, owns a Saadi fan, which he probably used only in training. This fan had ended up in his hands by a soccer agent who had been informed through a friend who had given him. Asked if he's the person who put her on eBay selling her to that very staggering one he overheard:

No, no, no. It's just a memory of nothing more.” /Periscope. com/