Davide Lippi Plans To Sue TV Show Over Antonio Cassano Claims

The son of the Italy boss is outraged at allegations that he is the main reason behind Cassano’s exclusion from the Nazionale...

Antonio Cassano - Sampdoria (Getty Images)
Football agent Davide Lippi has reacted angrily to speculation that Sampdoria star Antonio Cassano punched him in the face during a heated argument earlier this year.

The claims were made by an unnamed witness on Italian TV show Striscia La Notizia this week and it was alleged that the incident has lead to his father Marcello, the Italy national team’s coach, strenuously resisting calls to name the striker in his Azzurri squad.

Samp president Riccardo Garrone has denied the club is considering starting legal action against the programme, but Davide Lippi seems to have other plans.

“I would not have anything to say, because nothing happened,” he told Il Secolo XIX.

“They just don’t know what to concoct anymore and so they drag me into it or my father and so on.

“It’s a disgrace that someone allows a person to make this kind of statements on TV. That’s not the way to act. And in fact it’s all in my lawyers’ hands…”

Vince Masiello, Goal.com

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