"Giacinto Facchetti is no longer with us. He will always be greatly missed. It might seem an instinctive feeling, but it is the truth. Facchetti is missed at important times when you need someone to solve a problem with. He is missed, and he is missed so much from a human point of view because he had the ability to listen. Maybe I would be angry or he would be angry, but he could still slowly defuse the anger and rebuild something useful for an environment that he knew very well.
"In this first year without him, Giacinto would have liked to see all these youngsters we have at Inter. He would have been happy to see the Primavera's triumph in the championship and the growth of the academy and its continuous search for a few players for the first team. And he would have liked to see the Scudetto and the great character the team showed last season. He would have liked it because it was and has to be like what he knew when he played for Inter.
"Of what Facchetti taught us, we must never forget the discipline, which for him was a natural togetherness of honesty, loyalty and politeness in relationships. Some people take offence and say 'but at Inter they talk of honesty...', but it's not to flaunt our honesty. No one must ever flaunt it. But referred to Facchetti it was and is very instinctive and natural, just like it was for him, for his way of seeing things with a precise, almost mathematical order. And it is this that is missed. It's something that may seem natural, but actually it is never natural or normal."