Carlo

#Inter hype man agitating for #JavierZanetti's return. The #SanSiro will stand for another 1000 years but the hot dogs need to improve! #Interista

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

"By night he slept with his arms
around a ball and by day he performed miracles with it."
#EduardoGaleano on #diegomaradona from #Soccer in Sun and Shadow #maradonaRIP

[Mohamed ELNeny @ElNennY]

I can’t describe my feelings right now… Football always gives back to those who keep believing.. To the fans who kept believing, you deserve this… Arsenal; the club that will stay in my heart forever, you deserve this… The players and everyone at the club who made it happen, you deserve this… Congratulations to the best club in the world ❤️ @Arsenal

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

North London Forever.

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Spero che questo articolo fantastico venga tradotto in italiano. #ForzaInter #InterMilano

[Financial Times @FT]

Milan’s San Siro stadium is unique. It is one of football’s most dramatic modern arenas — but both its brutal beauty and its cultural legacy are threatened.

Tap here to read Edwin Heathcote's story: https://t.co/zuDaFUPRJA

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

I hope this extraordinary article is quickly translated into Italian.

[Richard Williams @rwilliams1947]

Recommended: the FT’s architecture correspondent on the future of San Siro. Best sports piece I’ve read this weekend.

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

This is a mightily significant achievement for Chivu who I thought wouldn’t last till Christmas.

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

🏆🇷🇴 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;

[Equator @Equatormag]

@debhartha tells Pankaj Mishra about his disillusionment with American academia:  its lack of free thought, its steep cost and its grab-bag of jargon that allows it to "cultivate a moral distance from capital and empire."

Visit us at https://t.co/y8NBc8PR3z to hear more.

[Simon Kuper @KuperSimon]

Every four years, @sszy and I massively update Soccernomics. The new US edition is out tomorrow, with lots of new material on transfers, on the USMNT and a whole new chapter on what the MLS needs to do to become good. Get your copy here: https://t.co/B37jVlKeQ6

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

This guy is a truly great ambassador for Inter. Love him.

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

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.
X
Nima

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

@SeagullsAmerica @postcereals You can find imported Weetabix from the UK in grocery stores in NYC that serve Irish communities. I bought a box for $13 last week.

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Eleven months ago #inter were in despair. A humiliating loss to PSG in the Champions League and the exit of Inzaghi did not augur well. The hiring of Chivu seemed eccentric. And yet here we are. Inter have won the scudetto and defied my expectations. Complimenti Inter!

[Inter ⭐⭐ @Inter]

MILANO SIAMO NOI 🖤💙

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

@postcereals @SeagullsAmerica Any updates on this. Shelves still empty of Weetabix. Imports are available but are very expensive and not always easy to find.

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Anche se hanno ricevuto un aiuto da una discutibile decisione arbitrale, complimenti al #Torino per aver rimontato e giocato con grande energia. #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Fare la siesta è una bella tradizione, ma Inter dovrebbe aspettare che la partita sia finita! #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

#Torino ora gioca con energia e determinazione! Svegliati, Inter! #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

#torino now playing with energy and purpose! Wake up Inter! #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Avrei potuto vedere Simeone segnare. L'Inter avrebbe anche potuto essere in vantaggio di due gol, ma il suo gioco è sembrato un po' pigro. #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

I could have seen Simeone scoring. Inter might have been two goals ahead but their play has seemed to bit lazy. #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Yann #Bisseck! È stato supersonico! E #Dimarco gioca come un Dio. #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Yann #Bisseck! That was supersonic! And #Dimarco plays like a God. #TorinoInter

[Carlo @TheInternomicon]

Thuram! Che Bomba! #TorinoInter