The Red Card

A look at the lower depths of global soccer: fights, riots, sex scandals, hooliganism, match-fixing, diving, bad haircuts, ronaldo's transvestite prostitutes, and other associated tomfoolery...

Nuns buy shares in Croatian soccer club

BELGRADE, October 22 (RIA Novosti) - A group of Croatian Benedictine nuns have bought shares in a leading Croatian soccer club, the Vecherniy List paper said on Wednesday.

The 19 nuns, from a convent located some 150 km (93 miles) away from the coastal city of Zadar, bought 50 shares worth around $4,500 in Hajduk Split, the nine times champions of Croatia.

The club recently became a shareholder company. The purchase made the nuns one of the club’s top 20 shareholders.