In an interview of a few months ago in the Gazzetta, the Romanian coach who is about to take the Nerazzurri reins filled his future men with praise: “A team that has a precise game identity”
“Possi, MkhiTaryan is the first player I would take in one of my team.” So he spoke to the Gazzetta dello Sport Cristian Chivu last October just before Rome-Inter (0-1, Lautaro, for the record). The Parma bench was still far away. That of the first Inter team even in his thoughts or maybe yes, who knows. But the Romanian coach, now about to sit on the bench who was Simone Inzaghi for a four -year period, weaved the praise of the Armenian and beyond. “I saw in Appiano how he trains – he said again -, his quality, the way of interacting with his companions. It is not common in football to find players who think of group and not in individual terms. He really is like that. It is pure intelligence”.
that praises for Inter
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But Chivu, in October, had not only focused on MkhiTaryan. “Reasoning ever, however, Inter have a precise game identity – he said -: the growth of the group has been exceptional, from every point of view. Rome and Inter play almost mirrored, but in reality it is an illusion (…) The result will depend on what Rome will be able to make a man on man everywhere. The problem for the Giallorossi is that usually in front of teams that play in this way. And those two according to Chivu were “Thuram and Lautaro. Two masters in movements, in being found free, in giving a reference to their companions both in the short game and on the ball vertically. It lasts, really lasts to block them”.
Not only there in front
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Chivu’s analysis also contemplated the defense: “… In individual terms I love sticks: I have seen the evolution of the boy up close, the more time passes the more it becomes a complete player, in the national team he also plays as a pure control unit. If that can be the role of his future?
general picture
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More generally, Chivu took the praises of a rose who – in large part – will soon have to drive: “The Nerazzurri club this year has built a team capable of holding to the end, to get to play everything in any competition. It is clear when Inzaghi chooses the turnover from time to time: the level never falls down”. And again: “The rotations on the field, the interscambiability of the players. It is an advanced, modern, constantly growing team”. Finally: “Tension drops? Inter in this sense does not run great risks, the club is used to managing enthusiasm”.
future
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Already in October, with Parma still far away. And Inter in the firm hands of Simone Inzaghi, Chivu had been held an open door: “I never say to Inter. But I still have to start my path. I feel ready to do it, my ambition is also measured at those levels, but I have to start from the bottom. I am waiting for the call of a sports director who submits a project and who has full confidence in me”. Four months later the call from Parma arrived. And in early June, to salvation reached with the Ducal Club, also that of Inter. Chivu now must begin to rethink the things he said before Rome-Inter. And he has to do it quickly. Because Inter are his.
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