Soccer: Gheddafi son in Serie A move
Saadi Gheddafi signs for Samp from Udinese
GENOA (ANSA) - Libyan leader Muammar Gheddafi's soccer-playing son Saadi moved to his third Serie A club in three years Friday. Saadi Gheddafi, 36, moved to UEFA berth challenger Sampdoria from Udinese - three years after his headline-making debut for Perugia.
Sampdoria - currently fifth in the table but well off the Champions League pace - did not say issue a statement on the buy, their first in the January transfer 'window'. Saadi, president of the Libyan soccer federation and a key shareholder in Italian soccer giants Juventus, turned out once for each of his previous clubs. The soccer-mad Gheddafi Jr has been dogged by injury throughout his Serie A career. He also served a three-month ban for taking a banned substance.
But he has stuck it out despite claims that his Serie A presence was a PR and vanity affair bankrolled by his father's oil money. Gheddafi, a Libyan international as well as federation chief, arrived at Perugia in summer 2003 to great fanfare and global media attention.
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