Who is Massimo Moratti, historic president of Inter

The name Moratti immediately brings the word Inter immediately. The Milanese family has been, since the 1960s, the first fan and for a long time owner of the Nerazzurri team. The last to be to the presidency of Inter was Massimo Morattison of Angelo, historic president of Helenio Herrera’s team, the great Inter capable of winning two champions cups. The son resumed the property of the team in 1995 between defeat and triumphs, from 5 May to Triplete, and maintained it until 2013.

It is no coincidence that, last May, To celebrate its eighty yearswas born in 1945, the children of the former Nerazzurri patron organized a surprise party with Ronaldo, Vieri, Recoba, Pirlo, among others. Inter have always been Moratti’s first passion now hospitalized in intensive care at the Humanitas Institute in Rozzano due to pneumonia. Moratti is intubated because he struggled to breathe independently. In 2023 the former Inter president had undergone an angioplasty intervention at the Galeazzi hospital in Milan.

Moratti took over Inter in 1995, just in that year Ligabue wondered who would take the team in the song You have a moment Godand won 16 trophies, including Triplete in 2010: Championship, Italian Cup and Champions League.

Massimo Moratti is the president of the most winning Inter ever. Owner of the team from 1995 to 2013, he was president until January 19, 2004 leaving the assignment to Giacinto Facchetti and from 6 November 2006 to 15 November 2013.

His guide of the company was characterized by large market strokes, above all that of Ronaldo the phenomenon in 1997 from Barcelona for over 50 billion lire. It will remain until 2002 by winning an UEFA Cup, arriving twice second in the championship, one in the terrible May 5 on the last day, and breaking the rooting tendon of the right knee devastating twice to which the illness before the world final of its Brazil against France in 1998 is added.

That Inter had big names, Zanetti, who remained the flag of the company, Simeone, Vieri, Toldo, but it was the following one to win. From 2004 onwards the three Scudetti of Mancini and the two of Josè Mourinho, coach of the Triplete. The following year the Club World Cup will arrive and in 2011 the last trophy, the Italian Cup.

However, Moratti’s Inter cannot be remembered only for the victories. It is an epic of changes of coaches, controversies and purchases with crazy prices and results not always arrived, But also of stories like that of the Nigerian Kanu helped after the discovery of a heart problem.

“Inter,” he said, “it is a life dimension: in this team there is something different, for me Inter was a choice: it did not happen by chance. For me it is great sense of duty and respect, however it remains a beautiful thing, it was a pleasure. It is a love, to be lived for better or for worse, but always with the idea of ​​being in love. I don’t know what I was for Inter: certainly I tried to do what I thought was right for Inter, it may be that he has made a mistake several times».

He continued the work of his father also in the oil sector with Saras, of whom he took the presidency happening to his brother Gianmarco, husband of the former mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti. Since 1971 he has been married to Emilia Milly Bossi and is the father of 5 children.

Source: Vanity Fair

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