The former striker for Chelsea and Everton, Samuel Eto’o, is rumored to have made a substantial financial investment to buy an Italian villa, according to sources from Corriere Dello Sport.

Locals supposedly warned Eto’o about the so-called Tutankhamun curse, but he nevertheless bought the £18.5 million property in Italy.

The Cameroonian football player reportedly bought Villa Altachiara, a historically significant home near Genoa in Portofino, northern Italy.

Lord Carnarvon, a man well-known for his connections to the so-called “Curse of the Pharaoh,” once owned the villa.

The origins of Villa Altachiara can be traced to February 16, 1923, when Lord Carnarvon and the eminent English archaeologist Howard Carter reportedly visited the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s supposedly “cursed” tomb and found it.

It is reported that eight of the 58 people who attended the unveiling of Tutankhamun’s long-lost mausoleum supposedly passed away within a twelve-year period.