{"id":63700,"date":"2014-01-11T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T11:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=63700"},"modified":"2014-01-11T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T11:55:19","slug":"italian-boy-five-reports-father-to-police-for-forcing-him-to-become-a-juventus-fan-by-having-a-priest-exorcise-their-house-when-he-discovered-his-son-supported-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=63700","title":{"rendered":"Italian boy, five, reports father to police for forcing him to become a Juventus fan by having a priest exorcise their house when he discovered his son supported Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Juventus1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63701\" alt=\"Juventus\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Juventus1-300x238.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Juventus1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Juventus1-377x300.jpg 377w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Juventus1.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Italian football fans are known for their passion and fierce loyalty to their local teams.<\/p>\n<p>But one supporter appears to have taken the beautiful game a little too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Arturo Verratti&#8217;s five-year-old son has reported him to police for trying to force him to support Juventus football team.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old even called in a the local priest, Don Cesare, to exorcise the devil from his son who had committed the cardinal sin of supporting hated rival team Milan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His father feared that only Satan could have been to blame for persuading his son to pledge allegiance to any team other than his beloved Juventus.<br \/>\nIn an extraordinary attempt to change his son&#8217;s mind, his father dreamed up a few techniques to break his spirits.<\/p>\n<p>The boy told police he was being forced to sing Juventus&#8217; chants and wear their black and white jersey day and night to indoctrinate him into being a supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours confirmed they have often heard the boy loudly singing Juventus chants under the urging of his dad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian football fans are known for their passion and fierce loyalty to their local teams&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,158,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}