Where is the trophy
In fact, he would not have been in the villa, the symbol of Baggio’s best season, that 1993 in which also France Football and the prestigious jury that awards it were almost unanimous in awarding it to him. Apparently, according to investigative sources, the Golden Ball is guarded in the safe deposit box of a trusted bank and, precisely for this reason, they are not bandits managed to track him down while they devastated the house of the champion of Caldogno.
The details
Then there are the memorabilia, the trophies of a glittering career, the most precious ones, the ones with sentimental value highest including worn shirts, jerseys of other champions and medals. There are two hypotheses for the failed raid by the criminals: the first is that the perpetrators of the robbery did not know that the house targeted was Baggio’s, the second is that they did not find them or that they didn’t have time to spot them during those 40 minutes of terror in which the former national team number 10 and his family were at the mercy of their attackers. Then there is another detail that the investigators are trying to clarify: Baggio or one of his family members (in the house were Roberto’s sons Leonardo and Mattia and also his mother-in-law as well as his wife) would have asked the bandits if they had been there to steal the memorabilia and they wouldn’t respond. What is certain is that the criminals ransacked the house, but did not even touch the room with the trophies which therefore escaped. In short, the robbers were prepared, but they probably didn’t know the villa in detail.
The 40 minutes of terror
According to the reconstruction of the police, the gang showed up in one of the rooms in the sleeping area, where the family was watching the game. Baggio approached one of the robbers and punched him in the face, and in response he hit him in the forehead with the butt of the gun, wounding him. The criminals then turned the house upside down, stealing watches, jewels and money with the loot still unquantified. When the footballer realized that the robbers they had left, he broke down the door of the room where they had been locked and called the police. The soldiers of the Vicenza company intervened, having listened to Baggio and his family, as well as having already acquired all the private video surveillance images. The sample was taken to the Arzignano emergency roomwhere he was treated with some stitches on his forehead.
