Scudetto at Inter: 5 reasons to call it special

The 19 championship in the history of the club arrives at Inter directly on the sofa at home, a takeaway championship, won playing the day before (2-0 victory in Crotone) and waiting for the result – that is the lack of victory – of the last opponent, Atalanta. It is a scudetto that allows Inter to overtake Milan’s cousins ​​in the roll of honor (stopped at 18) and that re-connects the threads of the glorious Nerazzurri history. Here are five reasons why this is a special Scudetto.

1) Why interrupted the Juventus reign after nine single-issue years, with the tricolor contracted out to Agnelli’s club.

There have been seasons – for Inter – very lacking in satisfactions (not even a trophy to put on the bulletin board) and marked by missed revolutions, with the coaches (from Mancini to Spalletti, from Mazzarri to De Boer) entered into a centrifuge of misunderstandings and misunderstandings . «We are succeeding in the enterprise of bringing down a kingdom», Conte had announced, savoring the triumph.

2) Because nostalgics can happily retire or – better – change jobs. Suffice it to recall here that the last Scudetto won by Inter before this was dated 2010, the year of Inter’s Treble, with lo Special One José Mourinho capable of hitting three trophies: national title, Italian Cup and – above all – Champions League. The memory – for the Inter fans – will remain so, but this Antonio Conte scudetto is a starting point.

3) Because – precisely – this is “the championship of Antonio Conte», The coach received with a bit of sentimental distancing – he is a genuine Juventus player – but who in a short time managed to conquer the Nerazzurri people. With personality, with charisma, with a hard fist, when needed. One from Inter. The last problem remains to be resolved: Conte’s future on the Inter bench is not yet certain. He asked the club for guarantees, he demands reinforcements: who knows if the owners will be able to satisfy him.

4) Because this is a special championship, the first won by a foreign ownership in Serie A, the one that refers to the Chinese giant Suning and which has its reference man in the young president Steven Zhang. Inter is a club burdened with huge debts (a whopping 630 million euros as of 30 June 2020) which must somehow find funding, necessary for a future that matches its ambitions.

5) Because – more than anything else – it is the Scudetto won by the strongest team in the league, which overtook Milan at the key moment of the season and was never worried by the too intermittent performance of Juventus and Napoli or by the final acceleration. of Atalanta. Deserved Scudetto, with a symbolic man: the Belgian center-forward Romelu Lukaku, the good Giant, 21 goals for him and a couple – the famous Lu-La, Lukaku + Lautaro Martinez – who turned out to be the best in the league.

You may also like