Saadi Gaddafi locked horns with the likes of Alessandro Del Piero
Son of Colonel Gaddafi was a Serie A footballer who ‘carried suitcases of money’, reportedly had a stake in Juventus, hired Diego Maradona and Olympic drug cheat as private coaches and was talked out of buying his teammates a Mercedes by Jay BothroydFrom attending Holloway Comprehensive, Islington to roaming around Monaco with a son of a brutal dictator, who was carrying suitcases of money, Jay Bothroyd wondered how his life had taken this turn in the early years of his football career.
“The whole time I was with him I never experienced even a raised voice. When people speak about his family, and I know that they’re tyrants and have done atrocious things to people in their country and other people, but I never experienced that from him. “We actually went to a birthday party that night, that’s where I met my wife, so I guess that was thanks to him.
But that still didn’t stop the lavish lifestyle, Bothroyd recalling he and a few teammates headed to Cannes for Saadi’s birthday where the Pussycat Dolls performed live at the house they rented. “He wanted to buy everyone a Mercedes. I was like ‘are you sure about this?’ He was going to order about 30 Mercedes’ for staff, everyone.
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