Bedy Moratti, the sister of former Inter owner and president Massimo Moratti, has insisted that when her brother sold Inter in 2013, it was the right time to do so.
“I was about 10 years old when my father bought Inter. I was in boarding school in Montreux. When I got home, I was 14 and I started following the team.
“I went everywhere and was present at all of Inter’s victories. Then, when I lived in Rome, Inter was no longer my father’s,” she explained in an interview with Italian news outlet La Verita.
She then revealed when she learned that her brother Massimo had purchased Inter from Ernesto Pellegrini in 1995.
“I was in Trieste for a show, I saw on television that my brother Massimo had bought Inter. I knew of his intentions, but as chance would have it, I learned about it in a theatre. I was all happy!”
Next she spoke on which players she loved watching the most in all her time watching Inter.
“From my father’s period in charge, Luis Suárez and Mario Corso were my favourites, they were two real champions. Everyone in Massimo’s team had something special.
“Then, despite being at AC Milan today, I adore Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He is a phenomenon, a force of nature. Even if I shouldn’t say it.”
She proceeded to discuss how she got along with former Inter manager Jose Mourinho, who famously led Inter to a treble in the 2009/10 season.
“I had always gone with the team to various retreats and friendlies, so I knew Mourinho well, I saw him often. He is a very intelligent person, a hard worker and a fine psychologist, for which he was very loved.
“Sometimes we heard screams from the locker room. We knew it was Mourinho who was grooming them and that we would win for sure. He is a great character. Another coach I loved a lot was Roberto Mancini, he too won a lot with us.”
Asked about her brother’s decision to sell Inter to Indonesian tycoon Erick Thohir in 2013, she explained: “It was the right time. I understand it perfectly, we had won everything and it was very demanding for him.”
Bedy Moratti then went on to discuss what the biggest disappointment for her was among many many successes.
“In my father’s time in charge it was when we lost the Champions League final in Lisbon to Celtic in 1967. We won everything with Massimo. The disappointment came from losing to Juve or AC Milan.”
In conclusion she spoke on May 5, 2002, an infamous day in Inter’s history, as they went into the final day of the season with everything in their hands as far as winning the title was concerned but missed out on winning the title.
“It was dramatic because I saw our players truly desperate, not to mention the fans, it seemed like mass suicide! We never understood the reason for that defeat. Ours players were very fired up, but football, you know, is unpredictable.”
