Man stabbed to death in Champions League dispute

A man was stabbed to death in the northern Italian city of Turin in a dispute over Inter Milan after the football team won the Champions League final, the ANSA news agency reported on Sunday.

The victim, a 63-year-old Juventus supporter, was stabbed in the chest and arm and died at one of Turin’s hospitals.

The man and his assailant, a 60-year-old Inter fan later arrested by police, began arguing in a bar late on Saturday over Inter’s fielding of too many foreign players to be truly considered an ‘Italian’ team, according to ANSA’s reconstruction of events.

The dispute became deadly after the end of the match, as the victim insulted Inter player Marco Materazzi for showing a t-shirt mocking Juventus on television. Police would not immediately comment on the matter.Inter beat Bayern Munich 2-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Saturday to become the first Italian team to achieve the treble of Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League.

ROME, Sunday AFP