Remember a while ago I mentioned a crazy scandal in Italian soccer, where a team’s owner was accused of fixing matches, having referees in his pocket, and basically, having bought off everyone involved in Italian football… well, today, it got weirder.

Juventus’s new manager, Gianluca Pessotto, threw himself out of a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt. He was clutching a rosary at the time. It did not cushion the blow.

The attempt failed, by the way. He took a 50-foot drop and bounced off one car and onto another. Jorge Larrionda witnessed the man’s leap from the window, and immediately issued Pablo Mastroeni a red card. A Juventus team spokesman says Pessotto sustained multiple fractures, but nothing life threatening. I dunno if 50-feet comprises a real suicide attempt… this may have just been a cry-for-help situation. But police are investigating it as a suicide.

Soccer experts are calling it the third or fouth most dramatic dive taken by an Italian soccer personality over the course of the past week. Wait… was that uncool? Yeah, it’s probably not okay to joke about this. The guy did try to kill himself. Sorry.