who\what is pastie?
oh he's Inters new president,i thought Fachetti was the new president.
oh he's Inters new president,i thought Fachetti was the new president.
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Giacinto Facchetti was busy the other day cutting a ceremonial ribbon for the opening of an Inter Fan Club made up by employees of the Corte dei Conti, one of Italy's high courts.
At roughly the same time, in Rome, Juventus director and former star Roberto Bettega and current goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon were christening a new-born Juve Fan Club, whose card-bearing members stretch across the corps of MPs from all of Italy's political parties, football perhaps being one of the few endeavours that could bring together such a diverse and perennially bickering group of people, although the cynical and perhaps all too easy question would be 'shouldn't they be doing something more important?'.
Whatever one's thoughts on the matter, Facchetti's presence was perhaps more relevant than Bettega's, for he's now officially Inter's chairman, the 19th in their history.
Owner and president Massimo Moratti resigned - along with all other members of his family - a couple of weeks ago: his departure from the running of the club's day-to-day duties was welcomed with a variety of comments, which reflected Inter's wildly bizarre standing as one of the most madly disappointing, predictably weird and ultimately unsuccessful clubs of the last few years, or more than few as their frustrated fans would agree.
Whether Moratti was the embodiment of Inter's great tradition which saw his late father Angelo as the wealthy force behind the successful 1960s side, or the living symbol of the gallant failures which have marked the last 15 years, it is and will for a long time be open to debate.
There's a more than a subtle undercurrent in Moratti's resignation: he was at the same time the club's best and worst asset for his willingness to make money available for top players and for his fondness for some of them, even those who tested his patience.
Facchetti took over a couple of weeks ago, and his task is a huge one, as would be anybody's whose authority is undermined by the reality that it is somebody else's money which is making the whole thing go.
whole article at soccernet.com
Giacinto Facchetti 1976: Leading Italy against England in a World Cup qualifier. (Photography/Empics)
Giacinto Facchetti was busy the other day cutting a ceremonial ribbon for the opening of an Inter Fan Club made up by employees of the Corte dei Conti, one of Italy's high courts.
At roughly the same time, in Rome, Juventus director and former star Roberto Bettega and current goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon were christening a new-born Juve Fan Club, whose card-bearing members stretch across the corps of MPs from all of Italy's political parties, football perhaps being one of the few endeavours that could bring together such a diverse and perennially bickering group of people, although the cynical and perhaps all too easy question would be 'shouldn't they be doing something more important?'.
Whatever one's thoughts on the matter, Facchetti's presence was perhaps more relevant than Bettega's, for he's now officially Inter's chairman, the 19th in their history.
Owner and president Massimo Moratti resigned - along with all other members of his family - a couple of weeks ago: his departure from the running of the club's day-to-day duties was welcomed with a variety of comments, which reflected Inter's wildly bizarre standing as one of the most madly disappointing, predictably weird and ultimately unsuccessful clubs of the last few years, or more than few as their frustrated fans would agree.
Whether Moratti was the embodiment of Inter's great tradition which saw his late father Angelo as the wealthy force behind the successful 1960s side, or the living symbol of the gallant failures which have marked the last 15 years, it is and will for a long time be open to debate.
There's a more than a subtle undercurrent in Moratti's resignation: he was at the same time the club's best and worst asset for his willingness to make money available for top players and for his fondness for some of them, even those who tested his patience.
Facchetti took over a couple of weeks ago, and his task is a huge one, as would be anybody's whose authority is undermined by the reality that it is somebody else's money which is making the whole thing go.
whole article at soccernet.com
Giacinto Facchetti 1976: Leading Italy against England in a World Cup qualifier. (Photography/Empics)
