Italian football legend Robert Baggio has been rushed to hospital after being robbed and beaten by armed thugs as he was watching Italy’s 1-0 defeat to Spain at Euro 2024 in his home on Thursday night, June 20.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Italian paper, Corriere del Veneto broke the news today, stating that the 1993 Ballon d’Or winner and his family were ‘victims of a home robbery’ while his nation was in action yesterday and that a ‘serious attack’ took place in the former Fifa World Player’s house in Altavilla Vicentina.
He reportedly endured a ‘nightmare’ that ‘lasted about forty minutes’ … he was hit with the butt of a gun.
The 57-year-old tried to fight off five armed men after they broke into his property but he was unable to hold them off instead he and his loved ones were locked in a closet.
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IT WAS A NIGHT TO FORGET
The robbers then stole watches and jewellery from his home before Baggio managed to free himself and call the police.
The football icon ended up spending the night in his local hospital and needed stitches after the attack.
Baggio is the first Italian to score at three different World Cups in 1998, after scoring in 1990 and 1994.
