Perugia president attacks female footballers for snubbing Serie A

ECCENTRIC Perugia president Luciano Gaucci has slammed two female footballers who snubbed his offer to make them the first women to play in Italy’s Serie A.

Gaucci says he is determined to have a woman in his team for next year and has spent months trying to lure Swedes Victoria Svensson and Hanna Ljungberg to Italy to play alongside the men.

But the pair, both strikers for Sweden’s national women’s team, spurned his advances saying they could not compete with the likes of Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Nesta.