Massimo Moratti the new patron of Luna Rossa? One of our own April Fools!
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It was obviously an April Fool’s joke the news we published yesterday that screeched a Massimo Moratti new patron of Luna Rossa, after Bertelli quit (and Bertelli, today actually quit). The news was peppered with a number of clues that further heightened suspicions of a hoax: the shot about Mourinho being team manager, the phantom British TV station “Grey Mullet Channel,” literally “Mullet Channel,” a reference to fish. Some people fell for it, others ate it up, the Gazzetta dello Sport quoted us in an article on the funniest “fish” of the day.
HERE IS THE NEWS “FISH”
“I don’t have Inter anymore? I give myself to the America’s Cup, Luna Rossa I’ll take it!” Shocking statements this morning from Massimo Moratti following Patrizio Bertelli’s decision to withdraw the Prada challenge after the 35th America’s Cup organization announced it would reduce the size of the catamarans on which the final phase of the Cup will be raced in 2017.
MOURINHO RED MOON TEAM MANAGER?
As early as yesterday, Bertelli had been spotted on Via Bigli in Milan, the historic home of the Moratti family, but no one had bitten the bullet. Today the agreement was made official. “I would love to have Jose Mourinho as team manager.”, joked the former president of Inter (in which he still holds 30 percent). Many believe that there is a definite plan behind this playful phrase, but the Special One, reached by the microphones of the British Grey Mallet Channel TV, said he knows nothing about it.
EXPO 2015: THE RIGHT TIME
“2015 is the best time to pick up Patrizio’s legacy,” Moratti explained, “with Expo 2015 having a ‘meneghina’ Luna Rossa can be a more than attractive lure for sponsors.” Which will most likely join Saras, the family business, given Prada’s spill. And to a reporter who asked him if we might see the “snake” on Luna Rossa’s sails in the future, he replied, “Black and blue is a great color for the spinnaker.”
THE PRESIDENT’S PASSION
Then again, Moratti’s passion for boating is no secret: he owns a beautiful sailing Perini, the Carlotta. It is a 37-meter ketch launched by the Viareggio shipyards in 1992, built of steel with an aluminum superstructure and teak tops. Now he is jumping into the world of racing, aiming for the most coveted sailing trophy in the world. And who knows, he may become the first president in the world to have lifted both the Champions League and the legendary “Auld Mug,” the “old jug”?
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