The left winger’s contract expires in a year but there is total agreement with the club, which could offer him a further extension
It’s called a long-term project. On the contract signed three years ago, Federico Dimarco still reads a not very reassuring writing: 2027. In reality there is no urgency for renewal, nor a negotiation to be set up as will happen for Hakan Calhanoglu after the summer. Inter has maintained a unilateral clause to extend the agreement for a further season, until 2028. It will start next spring, or when the club deems it appropriate, avoiding any risk. After all, the bond between player and club is such, especially on an emotional level, that it cannot waver due to a bureaucratic issue. Further ahead, among other things, the contract could be further extended (2030) by reviewing the salary figures: today Dimarco earns around 4 million net and in this special season he has collected all the performance bonuses beyond any reasonable doubt.
the explosion
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In the championship he scored 6 goals, which in reality would have been 8 if Thuram hadn’t been caught offside by an elbow on two occasions (Udinese and Lecce). Also for this reason perhaps his teammate felt the need to pay homage to him last Sunday in Turin, with the gesture of the shoe shine invented in the 90s by Moriero to thank the fairy foot of Ronaldo the Phenomenon. Dimarco had just produced assist number 16 and would rise to 17 in the second half with the seventh winning corner for the benefit of Bisseck. Never since 2004-05, the season from which the search for data on decisive passes in Serie A began, had a player reached certain numbers of profitable altruism: the previous record, belonging to Papu Gomez in an extraordinary championship played with Gasperini’s Atalanta, had placed the flag at 16.
feeling
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But not even a monstrous performance was needed to cement the agreement: Dimarco was born in Porta Romana, he learned to play football at the Rotonda della Besana imagining one day being able to step on the turf of San Siro. He achieved his goal, he became a pillar of the national team, he finds no reason within himself to change the trajectory of his career and life. Milan, the Nerazzurri Milan, is written in his soul and will probably remain home until the last of his runs on the left wing. Especially since the relationship with Cristian Chivu, a bet won by Marotta, is close to perfection. The two see football in the same way and love to share thoughts that are not necessarily related to sport. Dimarco would have liked staying at Inter regardless. More so with a coach like Chivu.
The party is here
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The celebration is here on Sunday, meanwhile the family is ready to celebrate him for the scudetto. It will be the second for him, who in the season of the nineteenth signing Antonio Conte was playing on loan at Verona. It was the goal that he and the team had explicitly indicated in unsuspecting times, when Inter were still in the Champions League: “Our priority is the Scudetto.” The disappointment of the group, in which Federico’s voice is quite influential, was too strong for a season that ended without trophies, despite the fantastic European adventure with Simone Inzaghi, capable of reaching two finals in three years. Winning is a luxury that few people have, not even that often. Dimarco, like the other players of the historic core such as Lautaro, Barella, Calhanoglu, Thuram, can’t wait to parade through the streets of the city among the people who have patiently accompanied him on his growth path.
how many goals
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And since one record leads to another, Dimarco also set the record for goals in the same season: 7, including the free kick taken against Dortmund in the Champions League. If he managed to score again he would raise the bar for himself, to close as a champion a work ruined by a single false note, the elimination from the World Cup. To earn another one, Federico will have to wait four years: in the summer of 2030 he will almost have turned 33. He could take advantage of his last chance, perhaps as Inter captain: the culmination of an era of belonging and fulfilment.
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