Nerazzurri legend Sandro Mazzola was interviewed by Milano based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport and discusses the treble and his memories of Inter throughout the years.
It took a different Moratti, but was Massimo’s 2010 even more exciting than Angelo’s 1965?
“We are talking about a treble, but Massimo’s Inter was amazing. We missed a similar chance during Angelo’s era when Giampaolo Menichelli scored a goal for Juventus, which allowed them to win the Coppa Italia. But for Angelo, we all understood that the Coppa Italia meant very little in comparison to the Scudetto and the Champions Cup.”
Only the upper class were Inter fans, the rest were Milan fans, was this how it was split?
“Our fans were going to Brera, a very nice area in Milan. There was a bar, Jamaica, where intellectuals, artists, and actors all gathered. It was a neighborhood that was very selective, with aristocrats and entrepreneurs and had some of the finest sweets supplied to them.”
But what about in 1968, where things got a little violent in Milan?
“The hippies preached about peace and love, perhaps they meant it in a harmless light. The student protests were not bloody, and I, enrolled in Business and Economics, just stood by their side even without attending the collectives and the University. In May 1972, two days after the Calabresi murder, we made it to Glasgow by going to the Champions League final, where we lost to Ajax and were put under protection on the way back to the bus which took us to the San Siro, we went with the police, who escorted us with their cars.”
