CAMPIONI D’ITALIA! SIAMO NOI!
By: Johonna | May 16th, 2009
I thought I would have at least one more day to come up with something for this post. I always knew it would happen, even when things took some turns for the worst and Inter were actually not first in the standings (I know, we have mostly blocked it from our minds, but it happened). We may not be able to run with the Manchester Uniteds and Barcelona’s in the Champions League quite yet (yet), Inter have cut a swath through Italy like no-one’s business. Yep, this is Number 17! Four(ish) in a row and a new entry in the record books.
According to ANSA, a few fans gathered at the gates of La Pinetina to listen to the Udinese-Milan match, just in case Inter won the scudetto. More arrived after Udinese went up one goal, then even more after Udinese went up another. By the time the game was over, hundreds of fans had gathered to celebrate with the team.
In Milan, the fans take to the streets and fill the Piazza del Duomo. There is champagne and flags, and a party that looks like a whole lot of fun:
For more photos, try here, and here.
For those of you who think there is nothing left to play for, I remind you that Ibra is still all tied up with DiVaio for capocanonieri. Hopefully he will take that title too!
More tomorrow after the match.
FORZA INTER!
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FIFA and UEFA does not agree.
Doesn’t really matter. You can wish International Footy was like your beloved club…..arbitrary put together with no respect to nationality, but as long as the national coaches put together natural teams, you’re out in the cold.
If you can’t speak the language naturally, you shouldn’t play for the country.
I can’t say I’m surprised a Sfinterisa thinks Italy should open it’s doors to Argies and Brazilians, though.
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Alessio, it already has.
I guess I just view the world differently than you do. I am not so hung up on “nationality” and “ancestry.” In today’s global economy and easy travel, it just doesn’t have a whole lot of relevance to me. I understand what the idea of a national team is supposed to encompass, I just think that where you grew up and where you choose live and raise a family mean more than where your parents are from. For instance, I think that if you are the product of an Italian youth team, that should qualify you for the national team, no matter where you or your parents were born. In my mind, it is (or should be) about footballing culture.
Times are changing and, when people were born, raised, and played football in a 50-mile radius, a national team meant one thing. Now, with the EU and people having one parent from country x, one from country y, and growing up in country z, what nationality are they? None? All of them? Who is to say?
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“I can’t say I’m surprised a Sfinterisa thinks Italy should open it’s doors to Argies and Brazilians, though.”
It’s only fair. Do you know how many Italians live in South America. The numbers are staggering.
And the name calling is very cool. I am always confident in an argument when someone starts calling me names. It’s a give away that they don’t actually have a rational point.
“If you can’t speak the language naturally, you shouldn’t play for the country.”
This is another one of alessio’s arbitrary rules of football. Language has nothing to do with the game.
But it’s interesting that you only now bring up this “very important” (read as: nonsequitor) point.
What’s next, only brown eyed people on the National Team because that’s more Italian…
“but as long as the national coaches put together natural teams”
What exactly is an unnatural team? Is it a team that I won’t find in the wild? This is pretty funny, I am going to use this one…
“you’re out in the cold”
I hate to break this to you, but naturalizing a player is allowed for a reason. It didn’t use to be. But they changed it *so that countries can do it easily*. The trend is TOWARDS globalization, not AWAY from it. Funny thing is, my father is afraid of it too.
“You can wish International Footy was like your beloved club…..arbitrary put together with no respect to nationality”
Yeah, kinda like your team does too.
Yeah, yeah, I know, you’re going to say that your team makes the mythical quota so that it’s okay for you guys to hire foreigners… I really wish you would say it again, though. I get a good laugh every time you try to justify it…
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Sorry, but I just think this is the funniest thing.
“If you can’t speak the language naturally, you shouldn’t play for the country.”
I mean, I can’t speak Iroquois, does this mean that I never had a shot at the American National team?
Which is a good question, really. Which of the native tribes’ language do I have to able to speak in order to try out? Do I need to learn them all?
I mean, we don’t want any of those filthy foreigners’ decedents from Europe to play for the American National team.
What about South Americans? Many of them are decedents of filthy foreigners too.
I bet none of them know how to speak Mayan or Yanomamo or Oronoco.
Heh, heh, heh, I think we just found the loophole to topple those pesky Brazilians…
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http://www.football-shirts.co.uk/fans/inter-milan-home-away-shirts-0910-leak_3742
our new kits i like them
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E, nice job on the jerseys. Like to away but hate the collar on the home kits. Oh well.
Skyder/E, have you seen any good clips of Arnautovic? I’ve watched a few on Youtube and they look pretty average. Not bad but not Ibra-esque.
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alessio, thanks for the kind words about our Tractor.
And I was wondering, do you have a buzzer underneath MAD’s mouse? B/c you can get him from zero to incensed in .5
MAD, I think you make some great points on here and I enjoy your comments but you definitely live up to your name. Haters hate. Nothin’ you can do about it.
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Btw, I am actually just making fun ’cause I find this ridiculous.
If I was upset, I probably wouldn’t be saying anything, I would be sulking or something.
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It’s hard to be sure on the internet sometimes.
You seem to use a lot of energy correcting random trash talkers who wander over here from other blogs. But on the plus side, I bet you can type wicked fast.
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Just to have a little fun and play a little devils advocate i’ll post this…
All this stranieri stuff again. Inter wins another title and if it’s not one excuse from the opposition, it’s another. Inter is taking knocks for not having enough Italian players.
What’s the point in having Italian players if they can’t win anything?
The best Italian players can’t beat a bunch of stranieri for a league title. The best Italian players do not fair so well in international club competitions anymore. The association is in danger of dropping in the confederation co-efficient rankings. The state of the current national team is a joke. They haven’t played a good match since the world cup aside from 1 or 2 decent Euro 2008 Qualifying matches. They are going to get slaughtered in the Confederations Cup… “b-b-b-but we are reigning world champions…” yeah but only because of the 4 year interval between world cup finals.
and all of you are happy to brag about how Italian your teams are compared to Inter? You are basically saying its ok to lose as long as you have Italians on the squad. That is the big rebuttal this year?
You constantly knock Inter for performing poor in Europe. It’s not solely Inter’s fault that the FIGC is about to drop in the UEFA co-efficient rankings. Aside from a couple of Milan titles in Europe, what the fuck has any other “Italian” team recently done that Inter hasn’t? Semis’ and finals mean shit unelss you win them.
I don’t care who puts on the Inter shirt as long as they play for, love and are committed to the club and give 150% every time!
My family is Italian. I love Inter and I love the Azzurri! I’m happy to say that every time the Azzurri has done well Inter has provided key players to the team. We have nothing to be ashamed of.
The rest of you on the other hand might want to have a thought, or two, before bragging about your current domestic talent with the current state of Italian football from an on the pitch perspective. None ofyou are as rich as you think in domestic talent.
Till next season… when Inter is still the team to beat.
Siamo Campione D’Italia!!
Noi Abbiamo L’Inter nel Cuore.
Solo e sempre Inter!!Have a nice Summer.
Forza Nerazzurri!!
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above me is probably the sexiest post ive seen in a while.
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nice paolo..
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I mean, I can’t speak Iroquois, does this mean that I never had a shot at the American National team?
Nope. Ever since we raped/killed/seized their land…that language has been irrelevent.
For instance, I think that if you are the product of an Italian youth team, that should qualify you for the national team, no matter where you or your parents were born. In my mind, it is (or should be) about footballing culture.
I would generally agree. Someone who grew up in Italy is much more Italian than someone who moved when they were 22 and have a great-grandparent from somewhere.
Now, with the EU and people having one parent from country x, one from country y, and growing up in country z, what nationality are they?
Could be all of the above. I have no problem with Simone Perrotta or Giuseppe Rossi playing for the Nazionale. What I do have a problem with is people saying “My grandpa moved from Napoli 150 years ago, thus I am Italian and should play for the National team.”
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Thank god you’re not and will never ve the azzuri’s coach alessio , its mentalities like yours that set a lot of countries back
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Never be** I meant
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Too bad it seems all Nazionale coaches from the last 15-20 years or so that I’ve been following the team agree with me, E.
Italy won the WC in 2006 with 1 oriundi in the squad. The country can produce plenty of talent that without the oriundi, we won’t be “set back.”
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Whether you like it or not though alessio sooner or later like MAD said that will change be it next year in south africa or 5 world cups after that
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That will be a sad day E. Soon after that players wont be tied to countries and after that they will have transfer fees. And finally Inter will win the World Cup.
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ScudettoStarved: There aren’t a whole lotta Arnautovic stuff on youtube, but you can try these 2. He even gets frustrated like Ibra does…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30hd1VRJG-Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haJYWxsQwJgBoth available in HQ.
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scudettostarved I coudlnt find anymore either
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Some Saturday Senior Stiker Speculation
Suazo looks like he’s going to be redeemed from loan only to be shipped out. I hope it’s to England, although apparently Roma City have said that they are interested.
Ricardo Meggiorini will probably be fully bought from Citadella with whom he’s co-owned and then either sent out on loan or used to pry Quagliarella/D’Agostino from Udinese.
Ditto Biabiany who is currently on loan to Modena.
Goran Slavkovski is still at large – last I heard in Sweden – and still contracted to Inter. His tenure at Sheffield United must have been horrific. As far as I know he was the first “next Ibra”.
Samuele Berreta is currently playing with the U20s
Riccardo Bocalon currently playing with the primavera
Mattia Destro currently playing with the primavera
Aiman Napoli currently playing with the primavera
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Next Ibra? Doubt it
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i wouldnt say next ibra but i would like him. i also thought quaresma would be amazing so take that with a grain of salt.
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Thanks skyder. Much better than the videos that I saw.
Can see the Ibra comparisons more now than before. Looked like some of his best moves ended up hitting the bar/post. But he seems to be comfortable working from the wings, kinda like Balo. Adds more fuel to the 4-3-3 fire.
But if he’s 20 I’d like to see what he looks like at 25. Hopefully he picks up some finishing tips from Ibra and not his attitude.
MAD, thanks for the update on the kids.
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Sorry, but I just think this is the funniest thing.
“If you can’t speak the language naturally, you shouldn’t play for the country.”
I mean, I can’t speak Iroquois, does this mean that I never had a shot at the American National team?
Which is a good question, really. Which of the native tribes’ language do I have to able to speak in order to try out? Do I need to learn them all?
I mean, we don’t want any of those filthy foreigners’ decedents from Europe to play for the American National team.
What about South Americans? Many of them are decedents of filthy foreigners too.
I bet none of them know how to speak Mayan or Yanomamo or Oronoco.
Heh, heh, heh, I think we just found the loophole to topple those pesky Brazilians…The funnier thing is that Standard Italian is a language enforced during unification. Most native Italians “naturally’ speak their local dialect which can occassionally be very difficult for other Italians to understand.
So if only people who ‘naturally’ speak standard italian are available to play for the azzurri it would be a very small group of people available indeed.
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