Kaka: save Italian football

AC Milan's Brazilian playmaker Kaka has called on the fans and authorities to help save Italian football. He feels officials need to take "tougher action" against those who threaten the peace in Italian football.

"Italian football is losing credibility, we need to take action immediately or the sport could die," Kaka told La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Italy has been rocked by riots after a Lazio fan was accidentally shot dead by police during a brawl with Juventus fans in Tuscany on Sunday.

The crisis mounted as angry fans in Rome, Milan, Bergamo and Siena rioted in protest to the death of 26-year-old Gabriele Sandri.

"First Calciopoli, then the police officer killed in Catania, and now this new tragedy. A fan killed while he was going to see a game," Kaka said.

"All these acts risk distancing the top players from our Serie A."

A police officer was killed during a raw between Catania and Palermo in the Sicily derby nine months ago, while the infamous Calciopoli match-fixing scandal in 2006 was definitely another black stain.