Prior to football club Inter’s big match against Parma to win the scudetto, it was revealed that FC Inter players and managers had had phone conversations with known criminals tapped as part of an investigation into a drug dealing ring.

The Milan team’s former tailor, Domencio Brescia, is said to also be involved in cocaine deals, and has a record for murder and robbery to boot. Strange associations for the team who has always claimed to be the honest ones in the competition, especially after the “we was robbed” claims over the Juventus match fixing scandal a couple of years ago.

You might think the conversations between said tailor and club management would provide something juicy. But in one conversation between team manager Roberto Mancini and Brescia, they discussed trim cut trousers, team line-ups and a friend’s arrest in France (although a photo of a topless woman and mutual friend did change hands).

In a conversation with team captain Javier Zanetti, Brescia “sorts” a Ferrari for the player who’s not fussed - he apparently prefers Porsche’s. So they settle on a Rolex Daytona instead - there’s nothing like having a tailor around to advise you on life’s tough choices.

Links between Brescia and his underworld connections were made apparent when a former police officer got a job at the Inter training ground and recognised the tailor. Sometimes you can’t help bad luck. With some two thousand tapped telephone conversations sitting on a magistrate’s desk, we will have to wait a while to see how the story evolves. Apart from some tarnishing of Inter’s squeaky clean image, all we’ve had is an insight into the rather banal world of soccer players and their management.

Via | Corriere della sera
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