The Rossoblù club has rejected the request for an annual membership card from the former president (and his son), who are unwelcome. The reason? The professor’s closeness to the former management

“I’m coming too. No, you’re not. Why not? Because I said so.” Enzo Jannacci would have sung something like this about the paradoxical story that unfolded on Thursday morning in Genoa and promises new episodes in the coming days.

To recap: former Genoa president Alberto Zangrillo, head physician at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan and former personal physician to Silvio Berlusconi, went to the club’s ticket office to purchase an annual season ticket for the Grifone’s home games at the Ferraris stadium. He made the same request for his son. Both requests were rejected: “Unwelcome persons.” Zangrillo’s reaction? A visit to the public prosecutor’s office to file a complaint… “I felt humiliated, I felt ashamed for my poor Genoa,” Zangrillo told Corriere della Sera. “Mr. Marco Trucco invited me to follow him to a bar opposite the store entrance and, once we were alone, he said: ‘I have been informed by the club that you are an unwelcome person’. I asked the journalists who called me, ‘But who told you that?’ The answer was surprising. ‘From the head of Genoa’s press office.’ It’s hard to add anything else, so I’ve decided to file a complaint. Why am I not welcome? You’ll have to ask Genoa’s owner, Dan Suku. I’m obviously forced to give up my season ticket. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll buy Genoa…”

The reasons for the disagreement—  On the other hand, some local websites justify the club’s decision by saying that it is possible to refuse a season ticket to anyone who has ‘harmed’ the Grifone. In fact, according to the current ownership, with Romanian Dan Sucu as president and majority shareholder – as reported by Ansa – Zangrillo is acting as a witness for the American company A-Cap, creditor of the previous owners, 777 Partners, which in recent months has contested, unsuccessfully, the capital increase signed last December by entrepreneur Dan Sucu, who thus became the new majority shareholder.