Italian football icon Antonio Cassano was once offered a role in an adult movie by famous adult guru Rocco Siffredi.
The maverick, now 41, boasted about sleeping with a mind-boggling 600 to 700 women – and that was only in the early days of his career. Cassano, a Serie A winner with AC Milan in 2011, eventually did settle down by tying the knot with Carolina Marcialis a year before his Scudetto success.
But that didn’t stop adult actor and director Siffredi – rather aptly known as ‘the Italian Stallion’ – from offering the hot-headed footballer a chance to star in one of his steamy movies, following his spell at Sampdoria in 2017.
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Cassano, having once helped Italy get to the final of Euro 2012, was entering the final days of his playing days when the offer came in. However, he ultimately turned it down and spent one more season in football.
Siffredi posted an online video, from Budapest, where he said: “Cassano has said several times that he has been with 3,000 women, so my proposal may not be a problem.”
The adult movie star has starred in more than 600 films, and he has directed more than 300. “I would choose him immediately for one of my movies,” Siffredi continued. “He is number one. Puglia Malena is awaiting him.”
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Siffredi is then joined by a naked Malena – real name Filomena Mastomarino – “Malena is waiting for you, do not leave me alone with her,” he finished.
Cassano was once considered a teenage prodigy; he burst onto the scene in 1999 – for his native Bari – when he controlled a 40-yard-ping with his heel, making Laurent Blanc and Christian Panucci look like amateurs before slotting the ball home.
It convinced then-Roma boss Fabio Capello to make him the world’s most expensive teenager in 2001, when he moved to Roma for £26million. However, he clashed with ‘the King’ Francesco Totti, and his career never hit the highs it had once promised.
But that’s not to say he wasn’t successful, Cassano turned out for Real Madrid, and he earned himself 39 national team appearances and netted 10 goals in the process.
Cassano sadly turned down Siffredi’s offer, and for a while, it looked like he may take his talents to the burgeoning Chinese Super League.
Instead, he ended up at Hellas Verona – and seven days later announced his retirement. But in a dramatic U-turn, he was convinced to stay and went on to make two appearances in friendlies.
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That’s all he managed, however, leaving the club soon after with Verona’s president stating: “His head isn’t right.”
Cassano promptly announced his retirement – for the second time that summer – and hung up his boots for good. It’s unknown if Cassano ever responded to Siffredi’s request. What is known, however, is he didn’t appear in any adult movies.
“If I’d had another head on my shoulders, I could’ve been playing on Mars. I’d be like Lionel Messi, Neymar and few others,” Cassano reflected on his career in his autobiography.