Giletti: “Boniperti, Maradona and Agnelli’s blame game”

Massimo Giletti denies speaking with Adnkronos the “nonsense” that, according to Gianni Agnelli, made Giampiero Boniperti not wanting to advise the lawyer to buy Maradona. “Agnelli’s interview with Mixer, in which the Juventus president talks about his conversation with Boniperti about the opportunity to consider ‘a young man who has exceptional skills’ was the classic blame game,” says Giletti. In the 1984 interview with Gianni Minoli, Agnelli said that he had indicated to Boniperti the name of Maradona and that he replied: “This name that seems to me a blasphemy … don’t bother me … If it were someone I would know “. Instead, says Giletti, who worked with Minoli for several years on Mixer, “Boniperti told me that things did not go like this at all and that the lawyer passed the responsibility on him, but in reality it was a question of costs that were obviously too much high “. Read also “Di Giampiero Boniperti – he continues – I have a clear memory: he was a friend of my parents and I was 8 years old. It seems to me it was Juve-Palermo. He took me by the hand and took me to the changing rooms of the old Stadio Comunale in Turin to make me known Juventus players. They were giants in my child’s eyes. There was Haller, with his blond hair, and all the other champions of the late 60s “, he explains to Adnkronos of his” mythical memory “of the president honorary of Juventus, who died during the night due to cardiac arrest. “Every time I went to Turin I called him – continues the journalist -. For me he was a legend even when I was little and he was a legend even before he left. As president he made us win a lot, he was an administrator of other times , who married football faith with work “. Giletti then talks about Boniperti’s temperament: “He got excited every time Juve was on the pitch and couldn’t hold up for the full 90 minutes: during the second half he had to go, he said ‘I can’t watch the whole game. ‘and we went to lock ourselves in the car to listen to the news on the radio ”.