The Nerazzurri coach did what Bearzot and Lippi did with the Azzurri who won the World Cup in 1982 and 2006: he took the anger and the bad moment and turned it into fuel for a championship victory
And the whole world outside. Inter as in the song “Albachiara” by Vasco Rossi, the Inter singer-songwriter. The beautiful game and the athletic fury do not fully explain the devastating 5-2 over Roma. There was more, you have to look at the psychology, the motivations. In the most difficult moment, the team, the club and the environment united, they formed a block against the criticism, the malice, the insinuations. The first signal was sent by Cristian Chivu, in the press conference on the eve of the match against Roma: “I have never seen a media pillory like the one we suffered after the victory against Juve”, said the coach. Shortly before the match, president Beppe Marotta, interviewed on TV, reiterated the concept: “The lynching of which Bastoni was the victim is shameful, as if Alessandro was guilty of who knows what”. Inter’s season went quite well until the episode of Bastoni’s simulation against Juve, the foul/non-foul that generated Kalulu’s expulsion and the unfortunate celebration of the Inter defender.
