Massimo Oddo foils €150,000 extortion plan

Massimo Oddo can sympathise with Spider-Man, as he too has a blessing that is also a curse. His rugged good looks have earned him the affections of pornstars and a delightfully homoerotic fashion shoot, but they also nearly cost him €150,000.

Bild are reporting that the Bayern Munich defender was recently seduced by two sexy (and presumably female) police officers in Italy. They photographed him in “compromising” positions, and two months ago, threatened to publish them if he did not stump up €150,000. Thoughtfully, they also showed the pictures to his wife - and the mother of his two children - Claudia Crivelli.

Oddo pretended

Naughty gang attempted to use Serie A club for money laundering

A story is emerging today concerning a notorious crime gang - the Clan dei Caselesi - and their attempts to buy Lazio in 2006. Italian authorities claim that the family from the Camorra, the Naples version of the Mafia, tried to buy the club through a Hungarian pharmaceutical company using funds gained from violence, intimidation and lots of other naughty stuff:

[…] police in Rome made 10 arrests as part of an operation codenamed ‘Broken Wings’. The people being held are Italians and foreigners.In 2006, Lazio president Claudio Lotito was given police protection after receiving threats from ultras (club supporters group), who were allegedly trying to intimidate him into selling to a consortium led by former Lazio player and president Giorgio Chinaglia.

Chinaglia fled after being charged with market-rigging linked to his bid while Lotito has also faced similar charges over