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Inter Milan legend Facchetti dies Former Italy and Inter Milan captain Giacinto Facchetti has died, aged 64. Facchetti, who was Inter's president, had been suffering from a serious illness for several weeks. The defender played 476 Serie A games and captained the "Grande Inter" team that won four league titles and two European Cups in the 1960s. Facchetti won 94 Italy caps, 70 as captain. He helped his country win the 1968 European Championship and finish runners-up at the 1970 World Cup. At the end of his playing days he worked in various roles at Inter and became club president in January 2004, the first ex-player to take the role at the club. "He was a great figure on the field and off it," said Facchetti's former Inter and Italy team mate Sandro Mazzola. "He was a wonderful team-mate and the authorative figure in the squad. He was always ready to battle, he was a great." Gianni Rivera, another legend of that era and a player for Inter's rivals AC Milan, added: "He was a great person, much greater on the human level than the sporting one. "We passed many years together and saw each other regularly when we had both finished playing. There was a very strong rapport between us."
R.I.P. to a legend.
R.I.P he had a fantastic goalscoring record for a defender.These were Moratti's words:_______________________________“Dear Cipe,I didn't manage to tell you what I wanted to for fear of making you understand that time was inexorable and the illness terrible. "I am sorry, but I think I should thank you most of all for the patience you have always had with me. For your eyes that smiled, until the end, at the enthusiasm or the irony with which I tried to overcome the difficult times with you. “A few days ago you spoke to me with hardly any voice left – and with the expression of someone who loves you – about Inter, projecting your thoughts towards a future beyond our possibilities, humble, ignorant and human. “A few months ago I asked you, half joking and half serious, why we never managed to have a referee as a friend, so we could feel protected at least once. And you, with an expression that was both soft and severe, replied to me that I couldn't ask you this because you weren't capable. “Fantastic. Your great dignity wasn't capable of it, your natural honesty wasn't capable of it. Neither was the sportsmanship that remained intact since your first day at Inter, with Herrera who mistakenly called you Cipelletti, and since then all of us have called you Cipe. Gentle, intelligent, courageous, reserved, far from every vulgar reaction.“Thank you again for having honoured Inter, and with her, all of us.Massimo Moratti”
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