AS Roma are delighted to announce that Gianluca Petrachi will begin work as the club’s new sporting director from 1 July 2019.

Petrachi, 50, has signed a three-year contract with the Giallorossi that runs until 2022.

“I am pleased to be able to welcome Gianluca to our team,” Roma chief executive Guido Fienga said.

“With his skills, I am sure he will be an important asset within the club’s management structure.”

After retiring as a player in 2003, the Lecce-born midfielder quickly embarked on his backroom career - accepting a role as team manager at Ancona.

In 2006 he moved on to become the technical director at Pisa, before subsequently being appointed the club’s sporting director.

In 2009 he made the move back to Torino - one of the clubs he represented as aKey Points:

A van has driven into a group of people near at Seven Sisters Rd near London's Finsbury Park Station.

One person is dead and eight have been injured.

The incident is being treated as a potential terror attack

The group were believed to have been worshipers leaving Ramadan night prayers.

One person, believed to be the driver, has been arrested

One person is dead after pedestrians were struck by a white van near a north London mosque, in what is being described as a potential terrorist attack.

Eight people have been injured.

One man has been arrested but it is feared two more suspects may be on the run after the van ploughed into a crowd outside a mosque in Finsbury Park, as they finished taraweeh, Ramadan evening prayers.


Prime Minister Theresa May said police