Internazionale Main Thread III
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Wed May 11, 2011 7:29 am
Domingos Paciencia just announced that he won't be their coach next season. He hasn't said who he will manage next season. Braga have done pretty well to make the Europa League Final.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Totally FRANK » Thu May 12, 2011 5:31 am
Milkman Zanetti prepares to deliver for 1,000th time
Wednesday 11 May 2011 12:57
Independiente unwittingly made a milkman out of a young Javier Zanetti. “That was the year in which I did everything,” he said. “They let me go just when I’d closed my books at school and there was no chance of going to another club. So I started to work with my cousin Carlo who delivered milk for a dairy company. I would get up at four in the morning to go pick it up and then take it to the supermarkets. I had to arrive early. When we got out, we’d have lunch and then I’d go train with Talleres.”
A hard worker by nature who had to be persuaded to down tools and leave work on building a wall at the family home to play football with his friends in the Dock Sud barrio of Buenos Aires, it’s often forgotten that, as a child, Zanetti suffered from the same growth problems as Lionel Messi.
Indeed, many - not least Independiente, the club he still supports - wrote him off simply because of his size. “I was skinny,” he recalled. “We saw a lot of doctors. Some said that I wouldn’t grow. Others said that I would. One of them recommended that I eat lentils and potatoes. It traumatised me. I am incapable of swallowing one or the other to this day.”
What Zanetti did do, however, was drink half a litre of milk every day. The rounds with his cousin proved he certainly had stamina and it wasn’t long before he made it as a professional. “I still remember the face of my father, Ignacio Rodolfo at our house the night before my debut. September 1992, Buenos Aires, the third week of the season in National B at five o’clock in the afternoon: We were playing at home in a small ground – 5000 people more or less – Talleres against Instituto Cordoba. It finished 2-1 to us. I played 90 minutes on the right of a three-man midfield.”
Nineteen or so years later, the player nicknamed The Tractor is still ploughing his furrow in football. When Zanetti steps out on the pitch at San Siro tonight for the second leg of a Coppa Italia semi-final against Roma, he will make the 1,000th appearance of his remarkable career.
To mark the occasion, Inter have prepared a special commemorative armband for their captain, featuring the names of nine other players to realise the feat from Peter Shilton, Ray Clemence and Pat Jennings to Paolo Maldini, Andoni Zubizarreta and Roberto Carlos. Asked to reveal his secret, Zanetti smiled: “I live peacefully, enjoying every training session, every game: I feel happy every day. I know that the time will come to say enough is enough, but I am not thinking about it right now.”
Zanetti arrived at Inter in August 1995. A videotape of his performances was one of the first things that landed on Massimo Moratti’s desk when he bought the club earlier that year. He watched it with his son, marveling at the youngster he saw playing in the green and white of Banfield against Boca Juniors in a famous match at the Bombonera.
Moratti’s South American scouts Giovanni Branchini and Paolo Taveggia were already in Argentina drafting reports on the River Plate playmaker Ariel Ortega and Independiente striker Sebastián Rambert when they decided to take in a match between Zanetti’s Banfield and Gimnasia De La Plata.
A bid arrived shortly afterwards and the rest, they say, is history. “I was in South Africa for a friendly with Argentina and the coach, Daniele Passarella said: ‘Inter have signed you’,” Zanetti told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “In that time, there wasn’t the Internet or anything. A van from the club came to pick me up at the airport and we went directly to the mountains for pre-season. I had my boots in a plastic bag. When they saw me drinking maté, the people thought I was crazy. They thought I was taking drugs…”
Not much was expected of the unassuming full-back, then aged just 22. No one could have known that the first transfer of the second Moratti era at Inter was also the best. Inter’s captain at the time Beppe Bergomi, who recently saw Zanetti beat his club appearances record in Serie A, was one of those taken by surprise.
“I remember that we had bought Rambert at the same time and they talked about him as if he were a great player for the future, then there was Javier. The first day of training at Cavalese we were doing a possession-based exercise. Pupi never lost the ball. You couldn’t get it off him. It was glued to his feet. That day, I swear I said: ‘This one will make history with Inter’.”
Of course, looking back, nothing was guaranteed. Inter were in flux. Zanetti felt a long way from home and the adaptation wasn’t easy. “It was like there were no traffic lights in Italy,” he said. “I didn’t know when to cross and when not to. I used to walk out into the middle of the road and stop the traffic.” Hours were spent in one of Como’s phone boxes calling his childhood sweetheart Paula. “The worst time was in winter,” Zanetti sighed. “The doors didn’t close properly. Fortunately the fax machine arrived. I bought one right away. I wrote letters, messages, everything.”
Things on the pitch were tough too. Players and managers came and went [Zanetti has had no fewer than 12 at Inter], as a success-hungry Moratti driven by the desire to emulate his father tried to end the dominance of Milan and Juventus.
It became an all-consuming obsession, one fuelled by the conspiracy of la grande ruberia in 1998 with Mark Iuliano’s assault on Ronaldo and of course May 5, 2002 when Inter blew a six-point lead at the top of Serie A with five games remaining and threw away what would have been their first Scudetto for 13 years on the final day of the season.
The only constant was Zanetti and his hairstyle, the eternal side-parting. “Once we tried to change the cut,” he laughed. “Honestly, I can’t tell you what it looked like.” Joking aside, he had been through it all, suffering just as much as Moratti. He only ever lost it once, his cool exterior betrayed by an uncharacteristic strop after Roy Hodgson substituted him during the 1997 UEFA Cup final against Schalke.
And yet, amid the frustration and disappointment of his first 10 years at Inter for which he had just two major trophies to show [the 1998 UEFA Cup and the Coppa Italia in 2005], Zanetti’s outlook remained unyielding. The grass never looked greener on the other side. He didn’t take the easy way out, not even amid interest from Real Madrid in 2000.
“One day Giacinto Facchetti said to me: ‘Javier, you’ll never get anything without sacrifice’. Thanks to my father I always knew this. But hearing it from Giacinto had a special weight because he didn’t speak often, but his words were like stones.”
Naturally, the wisdom of Facchetti held true. It would all pay off in the end, for after the drought came the rain, bringing with it five straight Scudetti, an unprecedented treble last season and a Club World Cup. Few can boast a similar medals haul. A place in the pantheon of all-time greats surely lies in wait for Zanetti who counts Ryan Giggs and Kaká as the two best players he has come up against.
With a contract until 2013, the boots he brought to Inter in a plastic bag aren’t yet ready to be hung up at Appiano Gentile. A run of 137 consecutive games in Serie A stretching from October 26, 2006 to March 24, 2010 led José Mourinho to say: “His passport must be wrong. He can’t be 36. He must be 25 or 26 at the most.” When cast in that light, Diego Maradona’s decision to leave Zanetti out of his World Cup squad last summer – ostensibly because “he no longer has the legs” – looks foolhardy to say the least.
“In Italy, they say that I am Inter’s Maldini. So it must mean that I am the Argentine Maldini,” Zanetti said. "If I feel like I do today in 2013 then maybe the time to retire will come later.” And who knows maybe he’ll get a new haircut. “I will never change it,” he grins. Then again, maybe not.
Wednesday 11 May 2011 12:57
Independiente unwittingly made a milkman out of a young Javier Zanetti. “That was the year in which I did everything,” he said. “They let me go just when I’d closed my books at school and there was no chance of going to another club. So I started to work with my cousin Carlo who delivered milk for a dairy company. I would get up at four in the morning to go pick it up and then take it to the supermarkets. I had to arrive early. When we got out, we’d have lunch and then I’d go train with Talleres.”
A hard worker by nature who had to be persuaded to down tools and leave work on building a wall at the family home to play football with his friends in the Dock Sud barrio of Buenos Aires, it’s often forgotten that, as a child, Zanetti suffered from the same growth problems as Lionel Messi.
Indeed, many - not least Independiente, the club he still supports - wrote him off simply because of his size. “I was skinny,” he recalled. “We saw a lot of doctors. Some said that I wouldn’t grow. Others said that I would. One of them recommended that I eat lentils and potatoes. It traumatised me. I am incapable of swallowing one or the other to this day.”
What Zanetti did do, however, was drink half a litre of milk every day. The rounds with his cousin proved he certainly had stamina and it wasn’t long before he made it as a professional. “I still remember the face of my father, Ignacio Rodolfo at our house the night before my debut. September 1992, Buenos Aires, the third week of the season in National B at five o’clock in the afternoon: We were playing at home in a small ground – 5000 people more or less – Talleres against Instituto Cordoba. It finished 2-1 to us. I played 90 minutes on the right of a three-man midfield.”
Nineteen or so years later, the player nicknamed The Tractor is still ploughing his furrow in football. When Zanetti steps out on the pitch at San Siro tonight for the second leg of a Coppa Italia semi-final against Roma, he will make the 1,000th appearance of his remarkable career.
To mark the occasion, Inter have prepared a special commemorative armband for their captain, featuring the names of nine other players to realise the feat from Peter Shilton, Ray Clemence and Pat Jennings to Paolo Maldini, Andoni Zubizarreta and Roberto Carlos. Asked to reveal his secret, Zanetti smiled: “I live peacefully, enjoying every training session, every game: I feel happy every day. I know that the time will come to say enough is enough, but I am not thinking about it right now.”
Zanetti arrived at Inter in August 1995. A videotape of his performances was one of the first things that landed on Massimo Moratti’s desk when he bought the club earlier that year. He watched it with his son, marveling at the youngster he saw playing in the green and white of Banfield against Boca Juniors in a famous match at the Bombonera.
Moratti’s South American scouts Giovanni Branchini and Paolo Taveggia were already in Argentina drafting reports on the River Plate playmaker Ariel Ortega and Independiente striker Sebastián Rambert when they decided to take in a match between Zanetti’s Banfield and Gimnasia De La Plata.
A bid arrived shortly afterwards and the rest, they say, is history. “I was in South Africa for a friendly with Argentina and the coach, Daniele Passarella said: ‘Inter have signed you’,” Zanetti told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “In that time, there wasn’t the Internet or anything. A van from the club came to pick me up at the airport and we went directly to the mountains for pre-season. I had my boots in a plastic bag. When they saw me drinking maté, the people thought I was crazy. They thought I was taking drugs…”
Not much was expected of the unassuming full-back, then aged just 22. No one could have known that the first transfer of the second Moratti era at Inter was also the best. Inter’s captain at the time Beppe Bergomi, who recently saw Zanetti beat his club appearances record in Serie A, was one of those taken by surprise.
“I remember that we had bought Rambert at the same time and they talked about him as if he were a great player for the future, then there was Javier. The first day of training at Cavalese we were doing a possession-based exercise. Pupi never lost the ball. You couldn’t get it off him. It was glued to his feet. That day, I swear I said: ‘This one will make history with Inter’.”
Of course, looking back, nothing was guaranteed. Inter were in flux. Zanetti felt a long way from home and the adaptation wasn’t easy. “It was like there were no traffic lights in Italy,” he said. “I didn’t know when to cross and when not to. I used to walk out into the middle of the road and stop the traffic.” Hours were spent in one of Como’s phone boxes calling his childhood sweetheart Paula. “The worst time was in winter,” Zanetti sighed. “The doors didn’t close properly. Fortunately the fax machine arrived. I bought one right away. I wrote letters, messages, everything.”
Things on the pitch were tough too. Players and managers came and went [Zanetti has had no fewer than 12 at Inter], as a success-hungry Moratti driven by the desire to emulate his father tried to end the dominance of Milan and Juventus.
It became an all-consuming obsession, one fuelled by the conspiracy of la grande ruberia in 1998 with Mark Iuliano’s assault on Ronaldo and of course May 5, 2002 when Inter blew a six-point lead at the top of Serie A with five games remaining and threw away what would have been their first Scudetto for 13 years on the final day of the season.
The only constant was Zanetti and his hairstyle, the eternal side-parting. “Once we tried to change the cut,” he laughed. “Honestly, I can’t tell you what it looked like.” Joking aside, he had been through it all, suffering just as much as Moratti. He only ever lost it once, his cool exterior betrayed by an uncharacteristic strop after Roy Hodgson substituted him during the 1997 UEFA Cup final against Schalke.
And yet, amid the frustration and disappointment of his first 10 years at Inter for which he had just two major trophies to show [the 1998 UEFA Cup and the Coppa Italia in 2005], Zanetti’s outlook remained unyielding. The grass never looked greener on the other side. He didn’t take the easy way out, not even amid interest from Real Madrid in 2000.
“One day Giacinto Facchetti said to me: ‘Javier, you’ll never get anything without sacrifice’. Thanks to my father I always knew this. But hearing it from Giacinto had a special weight because he didn’t speak often, but his words were like stones.”
Naturally, the wisdom of Facchetti held true. It would all pay off in the end, for after the drought came the rain, bringing with it five straight Scudetti, an unprecedented treble last season and a Club World Cup. Few can boast a similar medals haul. A place in the pantheon of all-time greats surely lies in wait for Zanetti who counts Ryan Giggs and Kaká as the two best players he has come up against.
With a contract until 2013, the boots he brought to Inter in a plastic bag aren’t yet ready to be hung up at Appiano Gentile. A run of 137 consecutive games in Serie A stretching from October 26, 2006 to March 24, 2010 led José Mourinho to say: “His passport must be wrong. He can’t be 36. He must be 25 or 26 at the most.” When cast in that light, Diego Maradona’s decision to leave Zanetti out of his World Cup squad last summer – ostensibly because “he no longer has the legs” – looks foolhardy to say the least.
“In Italy, they say that I am Inter’s Maldini. So it must mean that I am the Argentine Maldini,” Zanetti said. "If I feel like I do today in 2013 then maybe the time to retire will come later.” And who knows maybe he’ll get a new haircut. “I will never change it,” he grins. Then again, maybe not.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by RomaShield27 » Thu May 12, 2011 11:08 am
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Fri May 13, 2011 8:17 am
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Fri May 13, 2011 8:20 am
Moratti: 'Leonardo is a certainty'
Inter President Massimo Moratti has confirmed Coach Leonardo “is one of the certainties for the future.”
There has been a great deal of speculation about next season, including reports that Jose Mourinho will return to San Siro.
“Leonardo’s future? He is building a team and this is the time to look to the future with some certainties,” Moratti told RAI.
“Leonardo is one of those certainties.”
The patron also commented on the controversy after Gennaro Gattuso mocked Leo during Milan’s Scudetto celebrations.
“Leonardo was attacked and mocked. It was an ugly situation. In any case, Milan are a club and they’ll behave the way they see fit.”
Source: http://football-italia.net/may11y.html
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Doesn't really say that Leo will be the coach, just states his future is with us. Wasn't there rumours that he'd be staying on as a director or a scout of some sort?
Inter President Massimo Moratti has confirmed Coach Leonardo “is one of the certainties for the future.”
There has been a great deal of speculation about next season, including reports that Jose Mourinho will return to San Siro.
“Leonardo’s future? He is building a team and this is the time to look to the future with some certainties,” Moratti told RAI.
“Leonardo is one of those certainties.”
The patron also commented on the controversy after Gennaro Gattuso mocked Leo during Milan’s Scudetto celebrations.
“Leonardo was attacked and mocked. It was an ugly situation. In any case, Milan are a club and they’ll behave the way they see fit.”
Source: http://football-italia.net/may11y.html
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Doesn't really say that Leo will be the coach, just states his future is with us. Wasn't there rumours that he'd be staying on as a director or a scout of some sort?
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Totally FRANK » Fri May 13, 2011 1:58 pm
I think Leo will be here next season. Leo was Moratti's personal choice and he wants to give him a full season before he is ready to concede defeat.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Lombardiamia » Fri May 13, 2011 3:55 pm
At this point I too am starting to think that Leo will still be here next season. Guardiola was willing to arrive, but the club's plans didnt fully satisfy him so he decided to stay another year with Barca, since this will probably be another transition year for us from the old guard to a new, younger squad. Apart from Guardiola, there is no other manager available who can justify a change in Moratti's decision to appoint Leo for a year and a half. Mourinho and maybe Villas Boas would have been the only real alternatives, but both of them seem that will remain where they are.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Fri May 13, 2011 10:05 pm
Besiktas confirm Maicon offer
The Besiktas director of sport has told journalists “we’re ready to seal the deal for Douglas Maicon within two weeks.”
It has been reported numerous times that Inter are prepared to sell Maicon over the summer in order to fund their transfer strategy.
An offer from Real Madrid was rejected last season, but Jose Mourinho still wants that reunion and it could happen this time round.
Premiershit sides are also said to be interested, but Turkish club Besiktas made a surprising statement.
“We’re ready to seal the deal for Maicon within two weeks,” director of sport Serdar Adali told Turkish CNN.
Besiktas are well-funded and already have Italian defender Matteo Ferrari at the club.
Source: http://football-italia.net/may13y.html
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There isn't another Douglas Maicon that I am not aware of is there?
The Besiktas director of sport has told journalists “we’re ready to seal the deal for Douglas Maicon within two weeks.”
It has been reported numerous times that Inter are prepared to sell Maicon over the summer in order to fund their transfer strategy.
An offer from Real Madrid was rejected last season, but Jose Mourinho still wants that reunion and it could happen this time round.
Premiershit sides are also said to be interested, but Turkish club Besiktas made a surprising statement.
“We’re ready to seal the deal for Maicon within two weeks,” director of sport Serdar Adali told Turkish CNN.
Besiktas are well-funded and already have Italian defender Matteo Ferrari at the club.
Source: http://football-italia.net/may13y.html
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There isn't another Douglas Maicon that I am not aware of is there?
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Totally FRANK » Sat May 14, 2011 3:36 pm
Lomba, can you elaborate on Guardiola not being satisfied with our plans? He did not like our transfer policy?
The latest name linked with us is Eden Hazard. I haven't seen him play but I think he is one of the best young talents around. His name has been circulating for 2 or 3 years now. He is just 20 and he could provide us with a cheaper alternative to Sanchez.
The latest name linked with us is Eden Hazard. I haven't seen him play but I think he is one of the best young talents around. His name has been circulating for 2 or 3 years now. He is just 20 and he could provide us with a cheaper alternative to Sanchez.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Lombardiamia » Sun May 15, 2011 2:30 pm
Frank I personally dont know anything, but I get to give the benefit of the doubt to a very few number of people who speak about this and who in past years have more than once hit the nail on the head. I had heard a couple of weeks ago that Guardiola was really interested to join us next season. After a few days, this news hit the headlines of every major newspaper. Same sources now state that Guardiola was not willing to accelerate his departure from the best squad on the planet to join a club who is not intent on getting champions...cause we all know we are not in a position to buy champions. We have many positions that need adequate new blood, and we cant afford to spend much on each role. I expect 2 excellent but not champion signings in midfield and attack together with another 2 above average signings in midfield and left back, without forgetting that we need to sell. So seeing this scenario, Pep preffered to get another couple of trophies with Barca and the season after, he could leave without regrets as his contract would have ended.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Thu May 19, 2011 7:30 am
Inter: More Pastore than Sanchez…
A successful Inter swoop for Javier Pastore is more likely than one for Alexis Sanchez, President Massimo Moratti has suggested.
In an interview with Italian TV show Le Iene, he was asked to provide a mark out of 10 to signify the chances of signing certain players this summer.
“Sanchez? I’d say four out of 10,” Moratti noted of the Udinese player who has been linked with the Nerazzurri. “I don’t think we can get him, he’s too expensive.
“Palermo’s Javier Pastore? Five. Napoli’s Edinson Cavani? One. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi? Eight…That would be nice but I’d have to say zero.
“Zlatan Ibrahimovic? I’d like to say 10, but it is a zero because Milan won’t sell him.”
Moratti, who added that Diego Milito would definitely stay at Inter over the summer, was then asked for his opinion on his past Coaches.
“Rafael Benitez did upset me towards the end,” the oil baron said of the man he replaced on Christmas Eve with Leonardo.
“He is a Coach who constructs, but there was nothing to build here.
“He wasn’t the ideal successor to Jose Mourinho, a tactician who deserves to return here because he was the best from the last 15 years.
“Leonardo? It’s all going very well with him. All Coaches need a period to win and I think he’ll be able to take advantage.”
Moratti also stated that he doubts that Mario Balotelli would ever be back at Inter, but failed to rule out a second stint for former boss Roberto Mancini.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/may18f.html
A successful Inter swoop for Javier Pastore is more likely than one for Alexis Sanchez, President Massimo Moratti has suggested.
In an interview with Italian TV show Le Iene, he was asked to provide a mark out of 10 to signify the chances of signing certain players this summer.
“Sanchez? I’d say four out of 10,” Moratti noted of the Udinese player who has been linked with the Nerazzurri. “I don’t think we can get him, he’s too expensive.
“Palermo’s Javier Pastore? Five. Napoli’s Edinson Cavani? One. Barcelona’s Lionel Messi? Eight…That would be nice but I’d have to say zero.
“Zlatan Ibrahimovic? I’d like to say 10, but it is a zero because Milan won’t sell him.”
Moratti, who added that Diego Milito would definitely stay at Inter over the summer, was then asked for his opinion on his past Coaches.
“Rafael Benitez did upset me towards the end,” the oil baron said of the man he replaced on Christmas Eve with Leonardo.
“He is a Coach who constructs, but there was nothing to build here.
“He wasn’t the ideal successor to Jose Mourinho, a tactician who deserves to return here because he was the best from the last 15 years.
“Leonardo? It’s all going very well with him. All Coaches need a period to win and I think he’ll be able to take advantage.”
Moratti also stated that he doubts that Mario Balotelli would ever be back at Inter, but failed to rule out a second stint for former boss Roberto Mancini.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/may18f.html
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Totally FRANK » Fri May 20, 2011 1:36 pm
I think its a bluff. Pastore is going to cost us more than Sanchez and he is not the type of player we are looking at. We already have Sneijder for that role. Sanchez is more the kind of player we need.There are rumors that we made and offer of 15m + Mariga + loan of Coutinho for Sanchez but Udine want more money.
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Fri May 20, 2011 9:40 pm
I don't think we would get either. If we manage to keep Sneijder (which I think is unlinkely) we should try to sell Milito and few of the other oldies that just can't contribute and we go for Tevez. What a dream attack would that be!
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Sat May 21, 2011 10:00 pm
Chivu confirms international retirement
Cristian Chivu has announced his retirement from international duty with Romania at the age of 30.
The Inter defender confirmed the decision with a letter to the Romanian Football Federation (Frf).
“My career under the Romanian flag has finished,” he wrote. “Age, injuries and surgery over the past few years mean I cannot challenge on many fronts any more.
“This decision puts an end to one of the most important parts of my life. Looking back I feel pride, honour and recognition.”
It means Chivu will not play in Romania’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Bosnia on June 3 in Bucharest.
His international career ends after 69 caps in 12 years.
Chivu almost died after fracturing his skull in January 2010 and was out of action for five months before returning for the victorious Champions League Final.
He still wears a protective helmet and bears the scar of that operation to remove bone fragments from his brain.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/may21r.html
Cristian Chivu has announced his retirement from international duty with Romania at the age of 30.
The Inter defender confirmed the decision with a letter to the Romanian Football Federation (Frf).
“My career under the Romanian flag has finished,” he wrote. “Age, injuries and surgery over the past few years mean I cannot challenge on many fronts any more.
“This decision puts an end to one of the most important parts of my life. Looking back I feel pride, honour and recognition.”
It means Chivu will not play in Romania’s Euro 2012 qualifier against Bosnia on June 3 in Bucharest.
His international career ends after 69 caps in 12 years.
Chivu almost died after fracturing his skull in January 2010 and was out of action for five months before returning for the victorious Champions League Final.
He still wears a protective helmet and bears the scar of that operation to remove bone fragments from his brain.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/may21r.html
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Messinterista » Sat May 21, 2011 10:03 pm
Inter transfer merry-go-round
Italian newspapers are overflowing with transfer speculation about Inter, including Carlos Tevez, Arjen Robben, Fernando, Guarin and Casemiro.
The Nerazzurri could still win the Coppa Italia, but are looking to rebuild the squad with big name reinforcements next season.
The Corriere dello Sport outlines a long list of potential candidates, starting with Manchester City striker Tevez.
The Argentine has stated he wants to leave Eastlands for either Spain or Italy, so Inter are said to be the top option for somewhere between €45m and €30m.
As part of the deal, the Nerazzurri would also step aside so that Manchester City can take Udinese talent Alexis Sanchez without a bidding war.
Inter’s midfield is also under scrutiny with reports of a swoop for two Europa League winning Porto players, Fernando and Guarin.
Both could be snapped up for a total of €20m, as Portuguese man Fernando is worth €15m and €5m for Colombian Guarin.
Another alternative comes from Brazil, where San Paolo are ready to release Casemiro, but again Inter want to pay only half the €30m buy-out clause.
However, the Corriere also suggests that Bayern Munich star Robben is the main priority for their midfield, despite the cost of the operation and his notorious fitness problems.
A cheap and Italian option is Andrea Poli, who could move from Sampdoria in exchange for co-ownership of Joel Obi and other youth team players.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/may21g.html
Italian newspapers are overflowing with transfer speculation about Inter, including Carlos Tevez, Arjen Robben, Fernando, Guarin and Casemiro.
The Nerazzurri could still win the Coppa Italia, but are looking to rebuild the squad with big name reinforcements next season.
The Corriere dello Sport outlines a long list of potential candidates, starting with Manchester City striker Tevez.
The Argentine has stated he wants to leave Eastlands for either Spain or Italy, so Inter are said to be the top option for somewhere between €45m and €30m.
As part of the deal, the Nerazzurri would also step aside so that Manchester City can take Udinese talent Alexis Sanchez without a bidding war.
Inter’s midfield is also under scrutiny with reports of a swoop for two Europa League winning Porto players, Fernando and Guarin.
Both could be snapped up for a total of €20m, as Portuguese man Fernando is worth €15m and €5m for Colombian Guarin.
Another alternative comes from Brazil, where San Paolo are ready to release Casemiro, but again Inter want to pay only half the €30m buy-out clause.
However, the Corriere also suggests that Bayern Munich star Robben is the main priority for their midfield, despite the cost of the operation and his notorious fitness problems.
A cheap and Italian option is Andrea Poli, who could move from Sampdoria in exchange for co-ownership of Joel Obi and other youth team players.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/may21g.html
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by Lupa » Sun May 22, 2011 10:34 pm
You could always bring back Pirlo. 
He's available.
He's available.“I won things with that shirt and I know what it means. In no other city does a victory mean as much as in Rome."
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Re: Internazionale Main Thread III
by maro » Mon May 23, 2011 11:39 am
Tevez is hugely over-rated. His vision and decision-making are appalling. The rest of his game, of course, is outstanding, but those are two flippin' huge defects.
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