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🗣️ Ex @Inter striker Aldo Serena:
- Lautaro vs Bayern🐂
- Thuram "fundamental" vs Barcelona🫡
- "Inzaghi big club coach like Ancelotti" 🐐
- Calhanoglu, Barella etc quality "never seen before at Inter" 🔥
Much more
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Roberto Baggio's new book "Light In The Darkness" reveals INSANE things about coach Lippi at Inter:
- Lippi getting angry for Baggio using spicy olive oil,
- Lippi demanding Baggio spy on his teammates,
- Lippi "constantly attacking" & "bullying" Baggio
"He [Lippi] got angry at me because I used a dash of spicy olive oil in my salad. For him this was some form of sacrilege." 🥗
"One time during the pre-match training camp, we were all allowed one glass of wine with our food. Myself, Peruzzi, Ferron & Frezzolini asked for a bottle [to share]. Lippi got angry. Same night it was Seedorf's birthday, whom shortly after opened a couple of bottles of champagne to make a toast. That was ok, but for us evidently not." 🍷
"He wanted to meet me in March, he asked me to name the names of players who could potentially argue with him.
I replied in my own way: 'Coach, I train my hardest, you can evaluate if I deserve to play or not but please don't ask me to do anything else'.
Annoyed, he tried to provoke me from the start of the summer, to instigate a reaction from me. But I never lost my temper, I had read the game.
If I had reacted any differently, he would have the excuse to accuse me of trying to disrupt the dressing room." 🕵️
"One day Lippi yelled at me in an arrogant and aggressive way: 'Phenomenon, why don't you tell your teammates what is wrong with you?'
I replied with maximum calm: 'Coach, why don't you tell the teammates what you asked me to do' alluding to his request for me to spy on the team." 🐀
"One time I joked to a journalist that Inter was like a Ferrari being driven by a traffic warden. The following training session, he put me in the middle of the pitch for a public trial in front of my teammates. It was a constant attack, tangible bullying." 👨⚖️
"In the end, Lippi was practically forced to play me in the Champions League playoff against Parma in Verona. My two goals were decisive: a freekick to the right of the area that surprised Buffon & a powerful left footed shot from outside the area.
We won 3-1 and for me it was a nice redemption on a personal level, after lots of problems.
Someone commented that I favored the very coach who had humiliated me.
Maybe without those two goals, Lippi would have been sacked at the end of that season. But I hadn't even thought about that for a second: I was playing for my team, to honor the shirt and the fans." 🖤💙
No-one embodies this more than Darmian. Literally not a single fan turned up after his medical. People turned up for Vidal & Kolarov who were signed during same window.
Safe to say Darmian has had a better playing career at Inter out of all 3.
🏆🇷🇴 Cristian Chivu writes history this season:
- First to have won the Coppa Italia both as a player AND coach of Inter (2nd person in Inter's history to have won the Serie A as coach & player after Armando Castellazzi in 1934);
- first to have won the domestic double as a player & coach of Inter;
- 1st non-Italian coach to win the domestic double in his first season in charge of any Serie A team, (2nd coach after Antonio Janni with Torino who did it in his 2nd spell in charge of Granata in 1942/1943);
- third non-Italian coach after Sven Göran-Eriksson & José Mourinho to win the domestic double;
- Third Inter coach to win a domestic double after Mancini & Mou;
PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT
I was 7 years old when Lothar scored the winner that secured the club's 13th Serie A title in recordbreaking fashion. Trap's Inter dei Record of 1989. That was the first Serie A match I watched on TV. My aunt's husband (RIP) who was German, had installed a satellite dish on the balcony in no small part to watch Brehme (RIP) & Lothar dethrone cross town rivals Milan by beating Maradona and his Napoli to become champions of the greatest league the world has ever seen.
And I was hooked.
Watching Bergomi, Zenga, the aforementioned Lothar and Brehme, Ferri, Berti etc celebrate the title at the San Siro was as close to a magical experience that I ever had at the age of 7, all by just watching TV.
Because the San Siro that day was so magical, that just watching it on TV felt like it was the first day since having fled Iran 5 years earlier with my mother and grandmother (RIP), that life wasn't in black & white anymore. But once more it was a beautiful spectrum of colours so bright I could taste the hues of black, blue, red, white & green under the scorching Milanese sun. Needless to say I fell in love with Italy that day too.
But from that day on I was an Interista. After that day, I used to save up my weekly allowance I got from my mum to buy day old Gazzetta dello Sport papers (yes kids there was a period where there was no internet). Obviously I couldnt speak a lick of Italian back then, but turning the pages of the legendary pink newspaper looking at the words in big bold letters over action shots of Maldini, Baggio, Serena etc made me dream.
I dreamt one day I would learn Italian. And maybe one day I could go to Milan, to the San Siro and watch Inter play. My mum recently reminded me recently that when she asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up I said lawyer and journalist. And tram driver. It's a Gothenburg thing. Don't worry about it.
As life would have it, I was able to not only learn Italian, and visit the San Siro to watch Inter play, but I was lucky enough to call all of it my work. Because https://t.co/L6YMgrCgui was born out of a desire of not wanting Inter fans to grow up like me in the sense that just because we couldn't speak Italian we couldn't follow the daily news about Inter.
And so in February 2012 SempreInter was born. And every day since then, I made sure that sourced news about Inter was published in English. I say made sure, as in the past tense, because as of today I am no longer in charge of that. I want to wish the new owners the best of luck moving forward.
But above all, to all the millions of Inter fans worldwide that have read the over 118000 articles we published these last 14.5 years, to everyone that commented, shared the articles across all social media platforms, every guest we had on the #StudioInter podcast, every former Inter player we interviewed, every single writer and collaborator who contributed to the site, and of course to everyone at Inter itself: thank you x infinity.
I will continue to cover Inter and all of Calcio on @ItaFootPod with @carlogarganese & this exit will allow me to focus much more on that as well, especially given how well the pod is going and as a result how much more time it is taking up.
But in the meantime, Im looking forward to a summer off from the mercato, my first one off in 14 years.
So now I will savour the 21st Scudetto & hopefully a 10th Coppa Italia title that shines like a silver star with the rest of all you brothers and sisters of the world.
Grazie per tutto. Ma sempre e solo: Forza Inter.
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Nima