Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini wants you to know about Romanians’ DNA

By: Bob | March 13th, 2007

As Martha on the Italy Offside and Rose on the Palermo Offside have detailed this week, Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini is one crazy bastard. That is even more evident today. Facing heat following comments in which he called Fiorintina’s Romanian striker Adrian Mutu a “crafty little gypsy,” Zamparini refused to back down from his statement.

In fact, he further explained his thoughts and dug deeper into the anthropology of the Romanian people.

“When I spoke about Adrian Mutu, describing him as a “crafty little gypsy,” I did not mean to offend him,” Zamparini said. “On the contrary, I was simply justifying his behaviour, remembering that he comes from post-communist Romania. What Mutu did was an instinct that comes with his nationality.

“Say for example, Diego Maradona had been born in Oxford (England) instead of the Argentine suburbs, he would never have scored the ‘Hand of God’ goal at the (1986) World Cup.

“Craftiness is a Romanian characteristic, they have it in their DNA. They developed it as part of their survival instinct.”

Good God this man needs to be exiled to ~~Juventus~~ Siberia already

It comes as no surprise that the Romanian Football Federation has lodged a complaint with their Italian counterparts. Whether the Italian Football Federation will choose to do anything remains to be seen.

Leave it to Zamparini’s jackassedness (it is a word, look it up, his picture is right next to it) to overshadow another juicy story from Italy involving the blackmail of David Trezeguet.

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Bob

Alex, I am not Romanian but I have spent some time there. I have a number of Romanian friends and a few Romanian colleagues. I also spent a lot of hours watching Romanian football when I lived next door in Moldova.

Cheers
alex

bob, one question, are you romanian :| ?
austin

From any angle you look at it from, he still looks like a wrinkled orange.
BUILDERARCH

what's the big deal, people are way too sensitive
Adi

Well, what can I say. It's no surprise he thinks this way, Eastern European countries have this bad image in the mind of a Western European, image created through contact with some bad elements originating in these countries. He doesn't realize that in Romania, gypsies, although quite numerous (400.000-800.000 out of 21 million), have a very bad image as a community, and all Romanians feel this remark as an insult. Gypsy people do not represent Romania. It's a tolerated community, but a community that has poor hygiene, incredibly bad tastes in architecture and music (yes, music! they may be good with the violin, but when they sing their oriental music, they talk only of sex, money, hate against "enemies", its quite similar to American rap if you think of it) and lack almost any respect to other human beings (yeah, they lack any kind of manners, very very rude people...). 90% of them fit this description. They call themselves "discriminated" by the Romanian majority, but reality is, that no normal society could tolerate their way of being. No offense. That's why we, Romanians, feel this guy is an ignorant idiot. :) I said it.
rose

i love this man and his antics, i really do, but when I can't even come up with a way to defend him, he's got major trouble ahead of him.
zampa, please stop running your mouth. press silence #3 anyone?
The Count

I suppose he's right about Maradona, if he'd been born in England he would have been at the other end of the pitch.