Moratti: I'm a miserable winner
Tuesday 15 May, 2007
Massimo Moratti believes the May 5, 2002 capitulation was part of Calciopoli. “I’ve won the Scudetto now, but I’m still not happy.”
His team has dominated the Serie A season and shattered records, adding the 2006-07 title to the one that was handed to them by the Calciopoli trial last summer.
“I was happy that afternoon in Siena when we won the Scudetto. Happy for the fans, the Coach, the people who worked with this club and the fans who were finally able to celebrate,” he noted in the 'Corriere dello Sport’ newspaper.
“But there is no satisfaction here. In all these years they have robbed us blind. Our hopes and dreams were taken away. This is not snubbing the title, it is a feeling of melancholy.
“We won, but I am not satisfied because football is very similar to how it was before, with the same faces and too many things that have not changed. Nobody found the strength to be scandalised and turn it all on its head.”
Moratti is looking back over the 18 years that preceded this victory and taking a revisionist view of their worst moments. That includes the 2002 Scudetto thrown away on the final day with a 4-2 defeat at Lazio.
“After that May 5 loss, we were in my study with a group of journalists. There was the desire to start again and make up for our mistakes.
“We were convinced we had made the errors and that, honestly, there were other sides that had done better. But that was not the case. Football has been mutilated. With the revelations of the past few days, increasingly precise and painful, it makes you want to clam up.”
Juventus won that title and the Inter President believes it was caught up in the Calciopoli scandal. This week a former Bianconeri director launched more accusations of gifts and illegal funding for referees and Federation members from Luciano Moggi and Antonio Giraudo.
The director, Maurizio Capobianco, testified in front of investigators this evening. Juventus have said they will take legal action against their former employee, who they claim is disgruntled at his dismissal, for the allegations in 'La Repubblica’ newspaper.
“We have duties and projects. We will give 100 per cent for football and for Inter with the same strength as before, but do not ask me to smile,” continued Moratti.
“I cannot be content while the football system remains the same. I am also tired of the controversy with Juventus.
“I understand the Juve fans, as they have to believe in something and find an enemy to aim their anger at, but how could those who were within the club have not noticed anything? And now, is it all shelved like magic? They speak as if all this were in the distant past.”
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