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Mike Piazza interested in buying Italian soccer club Parma

Cooperstown remains the ultimate destination, but for now Mike Piazza has his sights set on northern Italy.

The former Mets catcher is mulling a bid to purchase bankrupt Italian club Parma, he revealed Wednesday an in interview with local paper La Gazzetta dello Sport.

“It is true, I have been to Parma recently and I am interested, but I can’t say for sure that it will go through.”

Piazza is one of several possible investors expected to make a bid for Parma, which was relegated from Italy's Serie A last season amid a crippling economic crisis that left the team unable to pay its players.