In Italy news did not have much echo, muffled by the tragic news stories and pressing current football television, but some time ago the British press has revived, with some evidence, an old story that stands the test of time and, periodically, back to occupy the front pages of British tabloids for the past thirty years: that of Mr. Szolti.
This story is unbelievable, this character is floating in my view, halfway between chronicle and legend.
It 's a sort of Yeti, the Loch Ness monster, of Phoenix of European football that has really existed, there is little doubt, are his works that are of many.
Who was, or at least those who say it was this "Mr. Szolti?
As soon as you ask a question so precise, as very simple, that is that we leave the field of certainties.
a name was called (or called yet? I could not even determine if he is still alive ...) Deszo.
Da qualche parte ho letto che fosse un ungherese fuggito assieme a molti connazionali famosi dopo i fatti di Budapest, del '56.
Non fu il solo, con lui espatriarono i campioni della Honvéd : Czibor, Kocsis ed il grande Puskas.
Le (relative) certezze finiscono qui.
Se in un qualsiasi motore di ricerca su Internet inserite il suo nome completo, Deszo Szolti, non avrete risposta.
Sembra quindi impossibile che un personaggio così oscuro possa aver riempito, seppur saltuariamente e per brevi, ma intensissimi, periodi, le prime pagine dei principali quotidiani inglesi e suscitato le attenzioni di giornalisti come Brian Glanville.
Invece è così, e d'ora in poi quello che vi posso raccontare è frutto di memories and hearsay.
Why the English papers have dealt with this man again? To this question the answer is easy.
's a story (or legend?) Was born in the 60s, due to the victories of a team destined to Myth: Inter Moratti, Herrera and Italo Allodi, the "Grande Inter".
But let's step back.
We left the mysterious "Mr. Szolti" fleeing from Hungary, invaded by Soviet tanks, along with Puskas. The famous sample
Magyar took refuge in Franco's Spain, our Lord does not Szolti road and apparently it stops in nearby Vienna.
Going forward in this story of the Austrian capital, the choice seems inevitable in una specie di "remake" del "Il terzo uomo", il cult-movie di Orso Welles ambientato nella Vienna del dopoguerra, autentico crocevia del gioco di spie negli anni della guerra fredda.
Il signor Szolti, per misteriosi motivi , assume incarichi (siamo sempre ai "si dice") in seno alla federazione calcistica austriaca.
Di lui si parlerà anni dopo come di un "ex arbitro internazionale" , ma pochi, per non dire nessuno, confermeranno il fatto che lo fosse stato davvero.
Abbiamo detto che assieme a lui erano fuoriusciti dall'Ungheria i vari Puskas, Czibor e Kocsis, andati a fare la fortuna dei grandi club spagnoli: il Real ed il Barcelona.
A posteriori, pare, che anche il signor Szolti, sia pure con altri mezzi, contribuisse anche lui alle fortune del Real Madrid in misura anche maggiore del suo connazionale Puskas.
Connazionale ? Siamo sicuri ? No, neppure di questo, siamo sicuri.
In realtà il signor Szolti pare fosse "apolide", nel senso che, come esule, non possedeva un passaporto, o meglio, secondo altri, non ne aveva solo uno… Nell'Europa di quegli anni, il signor Szolti, non è il solo a vivere questa condizione, al giorno d'oggi praticamente sconosciuta.
Limitandosi all'ambiente calcistico, anche il grande attaccante dell'Inter Stefano (Istvan) Nyers era "apolide", ma mentre "le Grand Stefano", come lo avevano ribattezzato al Racing di Parigi da dove lo "importò" l'Inter, segnava dei goals, the other makes "things happen".
Today called him "a fixer", then living in a sort of limbo gold, covered by the interest, much more limited than at present, but still substantial, the big clubs in international football.
And 'friend of all the referees in Europe, has entrature at major federations, traveling with, now of Real Madrid, now of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bstaying in luxury hotels of which the directors know.
During one of these trips met Angelo Moratti, ambitious tankers for years trying to bring about a success, comparable to its staff as the team cheering in: Inter.
E 'Here begins the story that the British tell.
It seems that between the two arises a relationship of friendship, certainly the case that Inter, who until then had not received anything, a contract with a coach considered magical, Helen Herrera, and a young manager who has led the fourth set of Mantova Serie A: Italo Allodi.
Inter win the championship, then played for the first time, the European Cup, whose prestige rises year after year.
Here enters our Mr. Szolti. According to the British
accompanies the Inter around Europe, ostensibly as a kind of wealthy supporters, in fact as a sort of eminence grise of "executive officer to the referee" as malignerà already at that time.
It is said that cubicles of referees from all over Europe for him are never closed.
Mr. Szolti becomes a sort of Brechtian Mackie Messer: where something happens is unclear, he is there.
Here are some examples.
In the semi-final with Borussia Dortmund in Milan, the game is intended to throw open the doors to its first Inter's Champions League final, Suarez loses his head and hitting an opponent with a kick in the groin.
San Siro holds its breath.
The foul would be disqualifying, but it seems that only the referee may warn, English arousing the ire of the Germans.
At the time there are still yellow and red cards to show to the player and the public, the judge writes only the name on the notebook, ed alla fine su quel taccuino non figurerà il nome di Luis Suarez che , altrimenti, sarebbe stato comunque squalificato per la finale.
Finale che si disputa nella "sua" Vienna contro il Real Madrid una società che Szolti ha servito in passato e che è maestra a gestire certi rapporti con i direttori di gara.
Szolti, raccontano, fa in modo che quella volta l'arbitro non sia troppo affascinato dall'avversario dell'Inter che trionfa.
Angelo Moratti gli è grato e Deszo Szolti diventa, secondo gli inglesi almeno, una sorta di "factotum" della società nerazzurra.
Scorrazza per l'Europa, organizza le trasferte, sceglie gli alberghi, contatta gli arbitri, secondo qualcuno li sceglie addirittura, ma il suo name was not on the payroll of Inter, nor on those of other companies Angelo Moratti. Twenty years later
Allodi answer with a smile at the question from a reporter who called Szolti a sort of "foreign minister" of the Grande Inter.
It appears that offers its services to other teams, when the Bologna, engaged in a tie with Anderlecht in the Champions League rejects any advice, he loses "the coin".
According to British journalist who pioneered thirty years ago this story is something more than a coincidence. But the British
pointing their finger of blame mainly on two facts that directly affect them.
May 1965, Inter faces in the second leg of the semifinals of the Champions League that Liverpool has overturned a 3-1 first leg.
In a packed San Siro Inter is the miracle: 3-0, and a game that will become legend.
a law that, according to the British, is not alien to our "Mr. Szolti.
things first: Inter go ahead with a penalty kick after a few minutes of Mario Corso A performance superb, but the British claim that the arbitrator had expressly stated that the shooting was "indirect" and thus that the goal was not to be validated.
Two minutes later, Peire remitted the balance in equilibrium with a historic goal, stealing the ball got to the English goalkeeper who was about to return.
Even in this case the referee decided to validate the point. The British press
arises, but everything is deftly laid to rest by focusing on the fact that "the English do not know how to lose."
April 1973, another Italian team and another English team face off in a Champions League semi-final. This time I'm
Juventus and Derby County to compete.
In the meantime many things have changed, and the Inter Szolti have left years ago after some misunderstanding.
Angelo Moratti has left the presidency, Helen Herrera winters for some years in Rome and Italo Allodi has arrived at the court of Juventus. The race leaves
Torino heavy polemic.
According to Brian Glanville, the first signature sports del Daily Mirror, l'arbitro Schulenburg, tedesco occidentale, viene avvicinato nell'intervallo dal connazionale Helmut Haller, che gioca nelle file bianconere e, nella ripresa, ammonisce Mc Farland e Gemmill , che , già diffidati, non potranno giocare la gara di ritorno.
A fine gara Peter Taylor, vice allenatore inglese, viene addirittura fermato dalla Polizia mentre cerca di assalire l'arbitro, ma, misteriosamente, del fatto sembra non esservi traccia del referto arbitrale.
La gara di Derby promette di essere incandescente, tuttavia, dopo una dura battaglia la Juve strappa lo 0-0 che la qualifica, ma il bello deve ancora venire.
Il giorno dopo la partita, infatti, un articolo di Brian Glanville rivela che l'arbitro Match of Derby, Portuguese Marques Lobo, UEFA would have denounced being approached "in the days before the race" by an unnamed "official of Juventus." The Italian club
indignantly denied the accusations, but when, in a later article, you mentioned the name of the character identified as "official" black and white it turns out that it was still him, Mr. Szolti.
scandal spreads. The Daily Mirror
unleashes his battle against "cheaters Italians," our press is closing ranks with sword and defends the good name of our football, but in some creeps, deep, the worm of doubt.
Does anyone remember that name, and among the many "is", there è anche quello secondo il quale il signor Szolti abbia l'anno prima aiutato, "in nome della vecchia amicizia" , l'Inter ad uscire dal pasticcio della lattina col Borussia, facendo in modo che l'arbitro Dorpmans si ricordasse molte più cose di quelle scritte nel primo rapporto.
L'impressione che resta , dopo un paio di mesi di polemiche infuocate, è che il signor Szolti abbia agito per suo conto.
Tradito dal cambio dei costumi intervenuto nel calcio : mai, infatti, si sarebbe sognato che un arbitro da lui contattato, finisse per denunciare l'accaduto.
In un certo senso è la fine per Deszo Solti e la sua epoca .
Il suo nome è diventato troppo noto , così come le sue gesta, vere o presunte.
The doors of locker rooms and begin to close the gallery, someone, perhaps the same as in the vicinity of the great challenges of the Cup did deliver the invitation "package" to help, tells him that now is no longer the case.
In his job advertising is counterproductive and ends when her name for months on the front pages of newspapers it becomes more difficult to become impossible.
Thus ends the career of Mr. Szolti illegal, a career full of success in a field where success can not to boast, especially if they want to get others.
Since then, periodically, its name, a name which almost always no one can put a face, back on the front pages of the tabloids in order, thinly veiled, to besmirch this or that happened in Italian football.
The question remains that what is said is true, I agree, but this story of Mackie Messer of European football is still fascinating and deserves not to be forgotten, even if it were a legend.
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