Lookman would be the eleventh Nigerian in the Nerazzurri history. But Pinetina also passed future politicians, preachers, benefactors, scammed, European champions and boys finished badly
The first African of Inter’s history had a strange nickname: his way of running led the reporters to call him The Turkey, “the turkey”, because as he ran he slammed his elbows. Edwin Firmanani, for all “Eddie”, South African of the city of the head of the Italian dad and mother of Johannesburg, dressed the Nerazzurri shirt in the late 1950s. He scored three dozen goals and also played with the national team. His paternal grandfather was Abruzzese of Ortona a Mare, hence the choice to wear blue. Over the past sixty years Inter has enjoyed about thirty African players. The first was he, an eccentric point who chose to be a coach: in 1990, after the invasion of the Kuwait, he was kidnapped by Iraqis and served three months in captivity. Some after him distinguished themselves, others were meteors, others collected a handful of presences and then greeted. Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Kenya. Africans Nerazzurri. Next could be Lookman, the tip of the goddess with which it is treating.