Donato Bergamini
Italian footballer (1962-1989)
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Key Takeaways
- Denis Bergamini, born Donato Bergamini (Argenta, 18 September 1962 – Roseto Capo Spulico, 18 November 1989), was an Italian football player who played as a midfielder.
- His fame, posthumous, is due to the controversy over his death, initially attributed to suicide when his body was found on the State Road 106 near a town on the Ionian Sea.
- Four years later, the trial began.
- The following year he played in Russi (always in Interregionale) where he remained for two seasons.
Denis Bergamini, born Donato Bergamini (Argenta, 18 September 1962 – Roseto Capo Spulico, 18 November 1989), was an Italian football player who played as a midfielder.
After starting his career in the lower leagues, he had his best professional spell with Cosenza, with whom he achieved promotion to Serie B.
His fame, posthumous, is due to the controversy over his death, initially attributed to suicide when his body was found on the State Road 106 near a town on the Ionian Sea. This reconstruction of the facts was never considered plausible by family members, investigative journalists and colleagues (such as former football players Michele Padovano, his friend and at the time teammate in Calabria, and Carlo Petrini, author of a book about his story). In November 2017, 28 years after the fact, a new expert opinion ordered by the Castrovillari court attributed the football player's death is caused by suffocation/strangulation; following this expert opinion, his ex-girlfriend and the driver of the truck under whose wheels the football player ended up were registered as suspects. Four years later, the trial began.
Early life
He began his soccer career in the 1982-1983 season wearing the Imola jersey in Interregionale. The following year he played in Russi (always in Interregionale) where he remained for two seasons.
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