APPIANO GENTILE – Staying on the subject of Serie A, there are those five Scudetti, each one as special as the next. The first came on 26 July 2006, on the Brennero motorway as the team travelled from their pre-season training camp in Riscone di Brunico to Bolzano for a friendly against Monaco. In that tiny, cramped changing room at the Stadio Druso, between pulling on a sock and his shorts, Javier Zanetti said: "Hand me the phone, I need to talk to the president and Giacinto."
The captain explained: "I think we said lots of wonderful things to each other that evening. We felt we deserved that title for everything we had been through before then. And we realised it might be the start of something marvellous, but we had to be up to the task, we had to earn it. We did that and we won everything there was to be won, and we still have that desire today: we want to get back to winning and raising trophies again as soon as possible. Before that day in 2006, no one could answer all the whys, but I always believed Inter's work would pay off."
From a special memory to the present, and Andrea Stramaccioni: "He's good, he came in and was humble and honest from the start. He has very clear ideas, he likes a certain brand of football and we've all bought into it. Hopefully we'll be able to end the season as best we can and Andrea can continue; hopefully these months will just be the start of a long coaching career for him. It's true that he doesn't have much experience working with first teams, but from day one he came across as a talented coach: he's careful about all the small details and he's very galvanising." Edoardo Caldara seized the opportunity: "So Javier, would you like to have Stramaccioni as your coach next season?" "Yes, we're working well together and there's great enthusiasm in training, but it's only right that it should be the president and the club that decide what is best, because Inter must start aiming for the top targets again."
At 20:00, exclusively on inter.it, you can read a preview of Dino Zoff's interview with Roberto Scarpini filmed in Rome, which will be shown during tonight's special edition of Prima Serata (21:00) dedicated to Javier Zanetti.
