Antonio Cassano piled on 14 kilos in seven months because of NUTELLA
Antonio Cassano reveals he piled on 14 kilos in seven months at Real Madrid… and blames the club because sponsors Nutella delivered him THIRTEEN JARS A MONTH that he would eat ‘directly from the bottle’
- Antonio Cassano spent two unhappy seasons at Real Madrid from 2006 to 2008
- He arrived heavy, managed to lose weight before then piling it on again
- The former Italian striker has laid the blame at the door of the Nutella brand
- Cassano claims the Madrid sponsor used to send 5 kilos of it every month
Antonio Cassano has made the extraordinary claim that he piled on 14 kilos in seven months at Real Madrid by eating Nutella directly from the jar.
The former Italian international spent two unhappy years at Real Madrid between 2006 and 2008, but he lays the blame squarely at the door of the Spanish giants.
His physique and fitness were huge talking points at the Bernabeu, and at 38 he has now decided to reveal the story behind his struggle.
Antonio Cassano played only 29 times between 2006 and 2008 at Real Madrid
The Italian fell out with his countryman Fabio Capello during his time at the Bernabeu
Cassano was 23 when he arrived heavy before managing to lose weight and then pile it back on again.
‘At Real Madrid I barely made it, I managed to lose about 12 kilos. Then Cannavaro arrived and I gained them again’, he told Christian Vieri on his former team-mate’s Twitch channel.
Though he does not explain the significance of Fabio Cannavaro’s arrival in the summer of 2006, the pair were the only Italians in a squad packed with international talent including Raul, Ronaldo and David Beckham
‘Nutella was one of the sponsors of the club and each month they gave us five kilos of product’ he continued.
Cassano claims he he started to regain weight he had lost after the arrival of Fabio Cannavaro
‘When Capello arrived I scored two goals in two games and I felt like the king of the world. After that he replaced me against Lyon, I argued with him in Jerez and took me out of the team.
‘In seven months I gained 14 kilos. I ate Nutella directly from the bottle and I didn’t care. I was ashamed.’
Cassano played only 29 times for Real Madrid and scored four goals and made three assists before he returned home with Sampdoria.
His time at the Bernabeu was littered with controversy and fallouts as he struggled with his weight, and towards the end of the 2006-07 season the club began giving him regular fines, which were directly proportional to his increasing weight.
He says he piled on 14 kilos in just seven months after eating Nutella ‘directly from the jar’
‘I’m happy when I eat pasta, bread, sweets and ham,’ Cassano admitted in 2016. ‘I’m addicted to food, even now.’
‘I made friends with one of the waiters,’ Cassano wrote in his autobiography while he was living in a hotel. ‘His job was to bring me three or four cornetti after I had sex.’
‘He would bring the cornetti to the stairs, I would bring the girl and we would make a trade: he took the girl; I stuffed myself with cornetti.
‘Sex plus food — the perfect night!’
He was once suspended by Madrid for calling manager Fabio Capello ‘faker than Monopoly money’.
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