Football: Parma CEO sells club to Russian-Cypriot alliance
(AGI) Parma, Dec. 7 - The news of the sale of the football clubParma F.C. to a Russian-Cypriot alliance came totallyunexpected. The sale to the alliance, which is represented byattorney Fabio Giordano, was announced by Parma's sporting andmanaging director Pietro Leonardi on Sky Sports: "The Presidentinformed us this morning that things have accelerated andtherefore we tried to rev up today's upcoming match even more.I think that the negotiations have been ongoing for quite awhile, but these things were directly managed by the president,and they accelerated during the last few days. This