Phone calls from Inter president Massimo Moratti, the late Giachinto Facchetti, AC Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani, and the then Udinese coach Luciano Spalletti.
According to Sportmediaset.it, here is the call between Pierluigi Pairetto, former referee, and Giachinto Facchetti on February 11 2005:
Pairetto: Speak to you soon, and remember yeah, you know these things are private yeah, no-one knows about these things.
Fachetti: Yes, Yes, I agree.
Pairetto: "It's something between us.On
January 10th 2005, Paolo Bergamo speaks with Inter president Massimo Moratti about sending a good team of officials for the game between Inter and Bologna in the Coppa Italia:
Bergamo: Seeing that there is no draw (for referees), but they will be designated, I have sent you Gabriele. And he will be with his two assistants who are very good.Bergamo then explains the decision to send Gabriele.Bergamo: I spoke to Facchetti, president, to confirm this climate of cordiality that is, naturally, something that only you and I know. The group appreciated the work in terms of Gabriele and Palanca (referees) and so I have decided to get them back for the Coppa Italia. One of them will ref Inter and one Milan.
Moratti: Ok.
Bergamo: We wanted to send out a good picture...
Moratti: Yes, Yes...
Bergamo: Facchetti said 'yes, yes we agree'.
Moratti: Ok, on Wednesday I will go and see him before the game.
Bergamo: He will be happy with this.
Moratti: I will go to say hello.
Bergamo: He will be happy if you say hello.
Moratti: Thanks. I will be there on Wednesday, and if need be I will go to see him before the game.Another call published by Il Corriere dello Sport Bergamo discusses Inter's 1-1 draw with Chievo Verona.
Facchetti talks about Christian Vieri's disallowed goal that was taken away by linesman Ricci. Bergamo explains that at the next game he will send different referees.
Bergamo: Hi Giancinto (Facchetti).
Facchetti: Hi Paolo I wanted to say hi, and then seeing what happened on Sunday, I didn't know Moratti had come out with this ref story.
Bergamo: No, but don't worry, the president just wanted to speak, and does when he feels neccessary.
Facchetti: Yes, but it was Ricci who made the mistake. And Paparesta (the ref) made a decision on this.
Bergamo: But, when the president moans he is right, but just don't give the players an alibi.
Facchetti: Yes, right, in fact.
Bergamo: Understand? What could Paparesta do? Ricci made the mistake... in fact Paparesta had a good game. He had prepared the game really well, but unfortunately.
Facchetti: Nothing, we have Palanca tonight.
Bergamo: You'll see he will have a good game, wait and see, it will be a good one.On May 17th 2005, Adriano Galliani contacted Bergamo talkiing about the 1-0 defeat to Juventus on May 8th. The game was a Scudetto decider:
Bergamo: Hello?
Galliani: It's Galliani, hello.
Bergamo: Hello, how are you?
Galliani: I was looking for you last night, but you were busy.
Bergamo: I still haven't recovered from the Milan-Juventus match. This caused a trauma in the family and it left a sign. We thought everything but...
Galliani: Us too, us too.
Bergamo: We thought everything apart from that, if it went bad, bad, bad, the game could have been a draw... anyway.
Galliani: Had we drawn we would have gone on to win at Lecce (the game ended 2-2) because we wouldn't have given up. Had we drawn with Juve we would have been top of the league and we would have certainly beat Lecce because it was an easy game.We also cannot forget Luciano
Spalletti who, at the time, coached Udinese and called Bergamo to speak about the 1-1 draw with Sampdoria on May 12th 2005:
Bergamo: It's important that you are fully charged up.
Spalletti: No, I am not fully motivated, naturally like you said with the, lets say, supervision of transparency, try to send us... like you know, like you have always done.
Bergamo: Look, I can tell you that after a last minute thought, I have already decided the assistants. Therefore you will get Pisacreta who is one of the best and Griselli from Livorno who has been number one. Therefore you are well protected, and as for the draw, we will see who you will get from the internationals (referees) that we have already put in."
Spalletti: Good.
Bergamo: I wish you good luck. We will do it. Good luck.
Cheers
JC.
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