Inter Legend Mazzola: “I Had An Offer From Juventus But My Mother Said My Father Would Turn In His Grave If I Accepted”

Sandro Mazzola has revealed he had an offer from Juventus during his playing days and the reasoning behind knocking it back.

“I shall tell you about Juve’s offer for me. I told my mother and she told me, ‘your father would turn in his grave. Tomorrow you will call them back and you will say no, thank you.’ I could not disobey them,” he explained in an interview with Tuttosport.

Mazzola spent his entire 17-year playing career with the Nerazzurri between 1960 and 1977 and is among the top goalscorers in the club’s history.

As part of the interview he also slammed Juventus president Andrea Agnelli’s comments made about the banners seen in the Juventus end during a Turin derby that mocked the tragic Grande Torino disaster wherein the plane carrying the team crashed, killing all 31 people on board including Mazzola’s father Valentino Mazzola.

“With serenity, I tell Agnelli to think hard before saying certain things. The sentences, whether he accepts them or not must be respected.”