Facchetti's son: 'Hand back title'
Wednesday 14 April, 2010
The son of former Inter President Giacinto Facchetti has urged the club to “hand back” the contentious 2005-06 Scudetto.
The title was assigned to the Nerazzurri, who finished third behind Inter and Milan, following the Calciopoli scandal.
Now Luciano Moggi’s lawyers are publishing a series of wiretapped phone calls, including those between Facchetti and the refereeing designator Paolo Bergamo, in a bid to suggest Juventus were not alone in their rapport with the officials.
“He did call them, but it was in a different way to Moggi,” Facchetti’s son, Gianfelice, told Le Iene.
Nerazzurri legend Facchetti died in September 2006, soon after the Calciopoli scandal.
“The content was very different. Moggi’s lawyers are putting my father in the middle because the trial has reached a crucial stage.
“There has been serious and unacceptable falsification of the information, as the transcripts are not the same as the phone calls released to the media.”
However, Facchetti has told Inter to take the higher ground and silence the controversy around that so-called ‘Cardboard Scudetto.’
“It would be a shocking gesture to hand back the 2005-06 title, but one that would give our history even more credence.
“Even by giving that back, there will be those who want the other Scudetti that were stripped, but in my view simply releasing that tournament would be a winning move for Inter.”
This way the 2005-06 edition would simply not be assigned, like the 2004-05 Scudetto taken from Juventus.