Donato Bergamini

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Denis Bergamini, born Donato Bergamini (Argenta, 18 September 1962 – Roseto Capo Spulico, 18 November 1989), was an Italian football player who played as a midfielder. After starting his career in the lower leagues, he had his best professional spell with Cosenza, with whom he achieved promotion to Serie B. His fame, posthumous, is due to the controversy over his death, initially attributed to suicide when his body was found on the State Road 106 near a town on the Ionian Sea. This reconstruction of the facts was never considered plausible by family members, investigative journalists and colleagues (such as former football players Michele Padovano, his friend and at the time teammate in Calabria, and Carlo Petrini, author of a book about his story). In November 2017, 28 years after the fact, a new expert opinion ordered by the Castrovillari court attributed the football player's death to suffocation/strangulation; following this expert opinion, his ex-girlfriend and the driver of the truck under whose wheels the football player ended up were registered as suspects. The trial began four years later, and in October 2024 concluded at first instance with the conviction of his former girlfriend for complicity in the killing.