Brothel Sponsors Italian Soccer Team

(Innsbruck, Austria) The Trento Calcio 1921 professional soccer team, based in Trento, Italy, has created quite a controversy by accepting over $14,000 in sponsorship funds from an Austrian brothel, Casa Bianca. Therefore, the team's website advertises the usual beer and computer products along with the services of a house of prostitution.

However, the Casa Bianca website link at the top of the list of the team's sponsors has offended some people with Casa Bianca being described as "the house of emotions," and a "sensuous place to get everything you want."

Iva Berasi, a member of Trento city council in charge of sports, was furious about the deal. "It's incredible that the (provincial) capital's team would accept a sponsor that would even give the impression that it profited from the sale of a woman's body," she told the local newspaper Trentino.

"I believe that my feeling of being offended is the same one felt by the majority of women in Trento. I would hope that the team -- which also receives public funding -- would want to find a remedy for this situation as soon as possible."

As a compromise, the team dropped the link to Casa Bianca on its website.

By the way, according to the price list for Casa Bianca, it appears that it costs over two hundred dollars just to walk in the door.