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Zlatan admits slapping opponent ‘an error’

AC Milan's Swedish international striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss the top of the table clash with Serie A leaders Juventus on February 25th after he was suspended for three matches.

Published: 7 February 2012 07:51 CET
Zlatan admits slapping opponent 'an error'

“I made a huge error… It happens, it happens… I must learn from my mistakes,” Ibrahimovic said after the incident.

The volatile 30-year-old – who has scored 15 times this season and lies second in the Serie A scorers list – received the ban for slapping Napoli player Salvatore Aronica in the face during Sunday’s 0-0 draw, for which he was red carded.

AC Milan said they will appeal the ruling by the Italian League’s Disciplinary

Commission. However, Ibrahimovic accepted that he had slipped-up.

“There is no need of video images to prove what I did, I made a mistake.

“But I have confidence in the team, it will be just as good without me.”

‘Ibra’ has a chequered disciplinary record in Italy – last season he was sent off two matches in a row while seven years ago when he was playing for Juventus he missed a title-deciding match with Milan because he was serving a suspension.

He was suspended after headbutting Inter Milan’s combative Serbian Sinisa

Mihajlovic and then hit the latter’s Inter team-mate Ivan Cordoba.

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Romanian billionaire and seven others die in Milan plane crash

A light aircraft piloted by Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu crashed into an empty office building near Milan on Sunday, killing him, his wife and son, and all five others aboard.

Published: 4 October 2021 09:07 CEST
Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato.
Police and rescue teams outside the office building where a small plane crashed in the Milan suburb of San Donato on October 3rd. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP

The single-engine Pilatus PC-12 had taken off from Milan’s Linate airport shortly after 1pm headed for Olbia in the north of the Italian island of Sardinia.

It crashed just a few minutes later into a building in San Donato Milanese, a town southeast of Milan, according to aviation agency ANSV, which has opened an investigation.

Witnesses said the plane was already in flames before it crashed into an office building undergoing renovations.

Petrescu’s 65-year-old wife, who also had French nationality, and their son Dan Stefano, 30, were killed.

Italian media identified the other passengers as entrepreneur Filippo Nascimbene, a 33-year-old from Lombardy, with his wife, young son and mother-in-law, who have French nationality.

Petrescu, 68, was one of Romania’s richest men. He headed a major construction firm and owned a string of hypermarkets and malls. He also held Germany nationality, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported.

Flames engulfed the two-storey building, next to the yellow line subway terminus.

“The impact was devastating,” Carlo Cardinali, of the Milan fire brigade, told news agency Ansa.

Deputy prosecutor Tiziana Siciliano was quoted by Corriere as saying that the plane’s black box had been recovered.

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