You don’t get tales like this every day
Samuel Eto’o has, by any standard, had a funny few months. He opened the season scoring on his debut for new club Everton against old club Chelsea in a 6-3 defeat at Goodison. After that he did very little, bar scoring twice against Burnley, and he was shipped out to Sampdoria in the January window.
His arrival there almost ended before it begun as he was said to have walked out on the Italian club after a row with the manager over a double training session.
Things appear to have settled down on the pitch for the former Cameroon international and he made his first start for the Italian side in a 2-1 defeat to Chievo at the weekend.
However, off the pitch, the Corriere Dello Sport say that Eto’o’s unusual recent life story has taken another turn.
They report that the new villa that Eto’o is set to purchase is cursed by long-dead Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The house, reported to cost €18.5million, was once owned by Lord Carnavon, who worked with Howard Carter when the supposedly ‘cursed’ tomb was opened.
Rumours of the curse, and the fate of many of those who worked on the find in the 1920s, persist and local residents are said to have warned Eto’o about purchasing the house.
One of Carnavon’s nephews died at Villa Altachiara after falling down the stairs and a woman called Countess Francesca Agusta is said to have vanished from the house in 2001.
Eto’o seems to have ignored these scare stories and is said to ‘love the house’. After the rather rocky few months his career has had, if we were Samuel, we’d be trying to avoid any extra bad luck.
Hat-tip to 101 GreatGoals
