MILAN – We're now sixty minutes away from Prima Serata, the Inter Channel programme hosted by Edoardo Caldara. This evening's guest - on his birthday and the day after returning to first-team action against Siena following his injury layoff - is Ricardo Alvarez.
inter.it offers you a third installment of the midfielder's interview on tonight's edition of Inter Channel's most popular programme.
In response to the fans' questions, Alvarez went into more detail about the way he plays football: "If I feel confident when I have the ball at my feet, I like to run at my man and go past him to create more space for my team-mates or to get a shot away. Where did I learn my technique? On the streets as a kid. In Argentina we play football on the concrete and to control the ball you have to trap it under your foot, otherwise you lose it to the other side."
During Caldara's programme, we also hear the real story behind Ricardo's injury: "I had a problem, well two problems... At the beginning my knee hurt and it kept swelling up after training. Then after the match against Novara it was even more swollen and I had to stop completely. I sat down with the medical staff and we drew up a programme to sort out the problem, but when I was almost ready to return I picked up a calf injury in the other leg - probably because I was putting too much weight on it as my knee hadn't healed properly yet. Thank God that after the game against Siena yesterday - even though I played more than had been planned - I didn't feel any pain."
