Michel Platini could have become an Inter player. This was revealed by Le Roi himself, former Juventus star and three-time winner of the Ballon d’Or. A guest at the Magna Graecia Film Festival underway in Catanzaro, Michel Platini told an anecdote about Gianni Agnelli and his failure to join Inter, stating: “In 1979, Inter wanted me but the borders remained closed to foreigners and I didn’t go.” A coincidence that could have changed the story of one of the most iconic players of national and international football in the 1980s.
On the memories of his time at Juve: “The Lawyer was the best for me. When he celebrated his 70th birthday in Paris, I was invited and I gave him my first Golden Ball. When he saw it, his eyes widened in amazement and he asked me if it was all gold. I replied that if it had been all gold I would never have given it to him”.
On today’s football: “Too many games on TV, if you see a player every three days you don’t want to watch him anymore. Now you always know everything, you know how everyone plays, there’s no curiosity anymore. When I was little everyone talked about Pelè, but no one had really seen him play. Then one day in the summer of ’70, you see him on TV at the World Cup in Mexico and you understand that what they said about him was all true. Who excited me besides him? My idol was Cruijff, but I had little of him, maybe the vision of the game”.