Internazionale

Although the AC Milan says proudly be Il più titolato al mondo club, the Derby of Italy, mourning excellence, dispute the two great rivals Inter and Juventus. However, if one of the two represents the country today Transalpine, that is the Old Lady: in the last league match against Catania last weekend, Juventus players formed with eleven Italians, a strange thing to see in these days. At the other end sits the Inter Milan in the first leg of the second round of the Champions League, in which the Nerazzurri lost for a bit to zero in Marseille, Ranieri fielded eleven players from abroad. Excessive contrast.

In both cases it is the most common, but it does give an idea of the basis of both squads. Lichtsteiner of Switzerland, Chile Vidal or Montenegrin Vucinic are common in the schemes of Conte, who has joined the Uruguayan Caceres in winter, but Buffon, Pirlo, Marchisio, Bonucci, Barzagli, Chiellini, Pepe or Matri up the the Bianconeri seat. Meanwhile, in the Inter game is usually the striker Pazzini, while young Faraoni started to stand in defense and Ranocchia, but is not yet confirming expectations, is one of the central reference after the undisputed Lucio and Samuel. In addition, during the winter was hired experienced midfielder Angelo Palombo. But they are rare exceptions.

Competing with a template with most foreign and local players does not guarantee anything, and often not sought in a deliberate but the market itself dictates the laws that have to adapt, but crashes when identifying a country club with the fact of being with an eleven no national players. It's like a Spanish film production but with director, actors and foreign script: it costs more to consider it as their own. However, Inter does not fool anyone: its name and history testify to this.

Born as an offshoot of the so-called Milan Cricket and Football Club, AC Milan now and that time did not allow the hiring of foreign players, a group of 43 dissident members, many of them Swiss, decided in 1908 to found a club where players would accommodate national and foreigners, called Internazionale in honor of the cause of its foundation, and only take two years to win their first Scudetto. However, we would cause problems with the arrival of the National Fascist Party, considering that the club's name was little Italian and resembled the Third Communist International.

Inter was forced to change his name, and after merging in 1928 with the Milanese Unione Sportiva assumes the name of Società Sportiva Ambrosiana, also losing nerazurri colors for a white shirt with a red cross, reflecting the coat of arms the city of Milan and we've seen recently as T reserves . However, pressure from the club's board and the efforts of fans who sang Forza Inter game after game with the return of blue and black as well as a concession to the historical name of the club and renamed Ambrosiana Associazione Sportiva Inter until the end of World War II in 1945, when he would restore the original name.

65 years later, Mourinho Inter finally get the most precious desire to step Moratti and to honor the name and origin of the club when he won the Champions League with eleven foreign players in the starting lineup, that defeat to Bayern. Like yesterday, the idea with which those members founded the club in the extreme. Little do they matter to the Nerazzurri tifosi nationality of their players if they accumulate successes, also today the symbol of Inter is an Argentine who has seventeen seasons in the club.

But lost in the identifying part of a club where only a small percentage of the workforce is made up of local players. Hence the UEFA establish the obligation of participating in European competitions to have a minimum of eight local players in their squads. And is that we are European citizens and the Bosman judgment was positive in many ways, but as usual, stretched all that was possible.