Inter Milan today is a happy club. In the mind of the recent amateur shines interista triplet harvested last year with Mourinho on the bench. Inter marked the return to the top of the European rankings after more than forty years of absence, in addition to confirming the lost dominion in Italy years ago. And is that the Italian club centenary has seen a constant ups and downs, roller coaster that has accompanied the successes and failures. These last were players for ten years, first as president Massimo Moratti's club in which marched on the table for San Siro a galaxy of stars who failed to illuminate the sky Nerazzurri.
Massimo Moratti, the oil sector relevant trans entrepreneur, joined the club in 1995. Son of Angelo Moratti, the architect of the "Grande Inter", the team that dominated Italy and Europe in the sixties with Helenio Herrera on the bench and the Spanish Luis Suarez , Fachetti and Mazzola's Italian or Brazilian Jair as figures in the grass, winning two European Cups, losing a final and clinching two Intercontinental. After those successes, Inter did not live good times and titles were scarce during the seventies and much of the eighties. It was almost arrived the nineties when the Italian team, with Trapattoni in the dugout and Zenga, who was then the best goalkeeper in the world, and Matthäus, Golden Ball winner, managed to win the Scudetto and UEFA Cup.
In 1994 he again won the Championship in the last year of Zenga at the club and Bergkamp, who was a failed signing in the field, but it was evident that the team, thirteenth in the league, needed a new impetus. Pushed by his love interest and support of older fans who longed for greening the laurels won by his father, Massimo Moratti took over majority ownership and the club president to try to return to the top.
Your first bet to lead the technical designs of the team was Roy Hodgson, who came to San Siro after a brilliant step in the Swiss. Then reinforcements were not excessive: it was necessary to cover the significant drop in Zenga for what is entrusted with the holder of the target of selection. Thus Pagliuca joined the club from Sampdoria. Festa were also recruited the young Delvecchio Roma and Udinese. The team finished sixth in the league. He was already in the summer of 95 when he started the Inter consumerist fever in which its president, like his father did decades ago, try to build a championship team based book.
Thus came Zanetti (Banfield), a true symbol Nerazzurri which is still in the club, Fresi, Carbone, Ganz, a young Roberto Carlos from Palmeiras and England midfielder Paul Ince, who arrived from Manchester in exchange for eight million pounds . Inter reach the final of the UEFA would lose against Schalke 04, but in Italy did not improve things and the seventh was his position in the league. Then began the ills that beset Inter in those years: the haste, impatience, constant changes, imbalances and unnecessary transfers. Hodgson would leave the club and be replaced by Luigi Simoni, technical experience in mid-table Italian teams.
Alongside Simoni, in the summer of 96 came big names like Zamorano, free of contract after leaving Real Madrid, Djorkaeff, from the PSG and basic selection later in the Champion of France, Kanu Ajax and Bayern Sforza Dutch Winter of Lazio. The improved situation in Italy reached the third place finish, but still far Lippi of Juventus, who triumphed in Italy and Europe. The following season, with Simoni in his second year on the bench, would be the best of the decade to finish second in the Calcium and regain lauf
Moratti had spared no expense in this, and thus came the Barcelona Ronaldo return for 4000 million pesetas and quickly became the idol of the fans, Simeone Atletico by 1200 million Nigerian defender West Auxerre Brazilian Ze Elias Bayer Leverkusen PSG Cauet French, Italians Morières of Rome and of Naples and Recoba Colonnese Nacional de Montevideo, Uruguay although it yielded a couple of seasons. A roster of luxury.
Since then everything got worse and shortcomings in the management of the club got bigger becoming the norm. A year after winning the UEFA would sign Roberto Baggio after rebirth in Bologna, and had no luck at Inter Nor had it in Milan. Portuguese would also be hired Paulo Sousa (Borussia Dortmund) and a young Andrea Pirlo, who would be given on several occasions. Did not reach the coveted Scudetto and even the format change in the Champions League, which allowed the participation of teams that were not champions Inter Milan were made a regular in the top European club competition. He did in falling 98-99 in the second round against Manchester, and not return until the 2002-03 when it reached the semifinals and was defeated by the residents of Milanello.
The coaches just have continuity and thus succeeded the veteran Romanian coach Lucescu, Castellini on an interim basis as Verdelli in 2003, a brief return of Hodgson, Lippi after winning in Turin and would not repeat success in Milan and Tardelli, until he reached Argentine Hector Cuper at Valencia after leading twice in succession to the final of the Champions League, the real obsession Moratti. Cuper will remain little more than two years at the club until it is replaced by Zaccheroni, but the apparent continuity existing in the dock would be contrary to the template, succeeding where the signings were millionaires.
Thus, from 1999 to 2003 came players like Seedorf (Real Madrid, 23 million euros), Cordoba (16, San Lorenzo) Peruzzi (Juventus), Georgatos (7, Olympiacos), Blanc (Barcelona), Panucci (Real Madrid), Vieri (40, then record, Lazio), Di Biagio (Roma), Farina (19, Valencia), Gresko (14, Leverkusen), Toldo (25, Fiorentina), Batistuta (on loan from Roma), Materazzi (10, Perugia ), Cannavaro (23, Parma), Crespo (26, Lazio), Adriano (Flamengo), Emre (10, Galatasaray), Coco (as part of signing Seedorf for Milan), Conceicao (Parma), Kily (free, Valencia), etc.
Some, despite their cost, justified his move (Vieri, Toldo, Cordoba) others do not quite jell (Farina, Emre, Coco) and some were incomprehensible (Gresko, Georgatos) as incomprehensible as the decisions were made to Recoba good player but not a crack of the first level, the highest paid player on the planet. In Italy there were good things, or league or Coppa, and Europe were notable only the aforementioned semifinals of Champions in a historic year for Calcium, who had three representatives in each round.
In 2004 there were changes in the club: the mythical Facchetti defense would take over the presidency after resigning Moratti, that he was unable to achieve the objectives that had been proposed but continued as majority shareholder and would return to the presidency two years later . On the bench, Mancini Zaccheroni replaced after successfully coaching Fiorentina and Lazio, precisely today Manchester City manager, the club that Inter some similarities. It was the beginning of a new era where the Inter finally regained hegemony in Italy and later in Europe so long been searching without success, but that's another story.
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