Platini and the revelation: “Before going to Juve I had signed with Inter”

“It’s true, I had signed with Inter two years before going to Juventus, but the borders remained closed, because foreigners couldn’t arrive in Italy. When Juve came looking for me, I was respectful and I called Inter, I informed them. I didn’t know the lawyer Agnelli when he looked for me. Boniperti met my agent, I was free. I had contacts in England and Germany. The lawyer told me that we had to win the European Cup. I told him ‘easy, I’ll take care of it.” Thus Michel Platini during his speech at the Sports Festival in Trento. “Liam Brady was a much loved player at Juve, he was an important character in the previous two years – Platini recalls -. There was skepticism about me, the players were angels but the atmosphere wasn’t easy. When things didn’t go well it was never the fault of the world champions who were there but of the foreigners”