Luigi Maria Prisco tells his father Peppino, an Inter lawyer and vice -president from 1963 to 2001: “President Frazzoli told him no twice. His jokes? The best cannot be told. He had timing: for this he was saved in the retreat of the Alpine troops from Russia”
He never called him dad: “Always and only Peppino and he was fine so”. Luigi Maria Prisco is the son of Giuseppe Prisco. Lawyer like the father, he has been retired for a few months. He left the study in via Podgora, adjacent to the Milan court: “For decades we defended Inter without ever asking for a penny, neither for fees nor for expenses”. Giuseppe “Peppino” Prisco was a myth of Inter’s history, he served it for over half a century, as vice -president from 1963 until his death, in 2001.
Lawyer, his father what architectural to make her become an Inter player?
“The problem did not possess. He, in my childhood, never talked about the other teams, whose existence I learned at school, in first grade. When I asked him about Milan and Juve, he replied: ‘Leave it alone, those don’t count.’ He was cunning.”
His jokes were dazzling: among the many, what is his favorite?
“The one that cannot be pronounced. In public he used a language acconcio, in the home no, he let himself go to non -referable phrases. However, it was more than a beaten, he was a great lawyer and football manager”.
The coach who preferred?
“In recent years he had become attached to Gigi Simoni, but most of all he had admired Helenio Herrera, even if with the magician there had been contrasts because of the character spigolosity. Once I don’t remember for which friendly, he sat on the bench next to Helenio. At a certain point Herrera entered Jair and our Brazilian made the sign of the cross. It is? ‘And the magician, rubbing his fingers: of mine, that of the Dinero’.
The most loved player?
“Peppino loved Facchetti because Giacinto, in addition to playing very well, expressed elegance and elegance. He said he would become a champion in any sport, from athletics to tennis. If he imagined him as an Olympic athlete”.
Facchetti, post mortem, was brought up to Calciopoli, despite himself. The lawyer Prisco, when the scandal broke out, was gone: how would he face the story?
“Dad, like Facchetti, had sensed that there were intralazzi, but he did not have the evidence. As a lawyer he knew that these things must be demonstrated and that alternatively we must arm themselves with Christian patience and wait, hoping to be stronger even than the so -called arbitration errors. In the long run everything came out”.
For his father the most heartfelt opponent was Juve?
“No, Milan, because we at Inter are born from a schism, from a traumatic separation with Milan and we bring this thing into it”.
On social media a video became viral in which his father orchestra a choir against Milan: “They will return, they will return to Serie B”.
“We were in Vienna, in 1994 for the first leg of the UEFA Cup final (which Inter won, editor’s note). We walked in a pedestrian area, Peppino was recognized by a group of fans who asked him to say or do something. And he found no better than to produce himself in this unmeractable against Berlusconi’s Milan, at the time very strong. Tumults.
His dad was in excellent relations with Silvio Berlusconi.
“He met him in 1972, when Berlusconi was an unknown manufacturer and many crossed his surname in Bernasconi. Peppino came home and said that at the headquarters of the lawyer in Milan a certain Silvio Berlusconi had presented himself to ask him to intercede with Ivanoe Fraizzoli, the president of the Inter of then. Yes, Berlusconi wanted to buy Inter. Berlusconi: ‘He made me a huge impression, he has very clear ideas’.
“Yes, in the early 1980s and Fraizzoli said no more time. The scandal of the P2 had broken out, among the members the name of the knight and Frazzoli had also emerged, who was a little moralist, he ruled: ‘I don’t sell Inter to a piduist’. That then many people found themselves enrolled in P2 without knowing it”.
Berlusconi, on the occasion of a derby, introduced his dad in Milan’s locker room: do you know?
“It’s a voice that turns, but he never said to me. If it happened, I hope that the next day he went to confess.”
His father lawyer: is it true that in the seventies, during the boom of kidnappings, he led many negotiations to free the kidnapped?
“I confirm. Families called him because he had shown mediation skills. I already worked in the studio and I didn’t want to enter those counterattacks.”
A cause against Mina has sprung up from the archives.
“A cause of work, in civil headquarters. Peppino in court obtained compensation for several tens of millions of lire on behalf of a record company. Mina had violated the contract, she had moved on to the memories that offered them more, but she was still linked to the Italdisc, it seems to me. A scandalistic newspaper, referred to Peppino, headlined: ‘I got through Mina, I had to chase her all my life. Heritage was the true meaning, the title had played on the double sense. Value, costume jewelery, no gold.
The lawyer and then the Second World War. As a lieutenant of the Alpini he participated in the Russia campaign.
“He told me so much of the war, especially when I was a child. Events that terrified me: deaths, freezing and amputations of legs and arms, bloody episodes. The famous retreat had not been exactly a retreat. At some point the Alpini had returned back, on their steps, to fight intensely. Then they broke the encirclement and opened a passage. Peppino belonged to the Julia division. In the frost for hundreds of kilometers, they were decimated. He practiced cycling, went to the mountains, and all this helped him, in Russia “.
Confirm that in the steppe, before winter and tragedy, did he take food for a copy of the Gazzetta?
“He noticed an alpine who read the gazette of a few days, if not a few weeks earlier. A copy arrived there who knows how. He was hungry for news on Inter and offered the military a box of meat in exchange for the newspaper. Then he went to look for the article on his team. ‘Title:’ The Ambrosiana (then it was called that, editor’s note) loses in Bologna and descends to second place ‘.
Back in Italy, we spent to find a publishing house in Giulio Bedeschi, author of “Centomila Ice Gavette”, the book on the epic of the Alpine troops in Russia.
“He turned to the major publishers, from Rizzoli to Mondadori, and received some arrogant no. Bedeschi found the solution by himself, he published the book from Mursia and the success was sensational, thousands of copies sold. Dad was very happy with it”.
How did the lawyer Peppino Prisco have disposed of the blow in the final against PSG?
“With a joke: ‘5-0? To me it doesn’t appear, the journalists invent many’. ‘
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