Between drum, megaphone, tattoos and suits: everything is ready for the final against PSG
Drum, megaphone and all to intone choirs. It looks like the north curve, but it is the Corcoran’s. A pub like many others in the city, but not when there is the Inter game. And then the restaurant in the center of Paris turns into a branch of the Meazza, from the seat of the club of the Nerazzurri fans, in turmoil for weeks. The over two hundred members, living in the capital, know well that the outcome of the Champions League tonight final with the Paris Saint Germain goes beyond the field. The victory would bring glory and good mood for weeks, in the face of the Parisians, while the defeat would be synonymous with condemnation to durable teasing by friends, work colleagues, neighbors or simple patrons of the brasserie under the house, with the croissant in hand and the PSG in the heart.
Together with the Blaugrana
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However, for those who have not found a ticket to Munich, there will be the Crocoran’s bedlam on the Grands Boulevards, where preparations have been started for some time. The flood is expected between club members and other Italians, attracted by the unprecedented challenge. All coordinated by Gianfranco, fifty years old, in Paris since 2000, co -founder and president of the Inter Club since 2002: “At the beginning, we found ourselves at the headquarters of the Committee for Italians abroad, sharing the spaces with the Juventus Club”, says the manager of a consultancy company for companies, originally from Atri, province of Teramo. “Then they were forgetting the flag, which we burned with official ceremony. Then we moved to the crypt of the Italian church, where we set up three giant people, thanks also to the support of an Inter -priest. And, after a small pub near the Pantheon, we landed at the Corcoran’s, where there is also the Barcelona fan club”. For the torrid double semifinal of the Champions League, Nerazzurri and Culé have lived together every emotion, between songs, churned up and in the end some embrace.
account on the Gobbi
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For today’s final it will be another story, even for those who are not yet registered with the club. Like Nicola, 52 years old, conductor who takes advantage of the long bridge to go to the countryside: “But we organized to follow it in any case, even with some Juventus humps that I hope not for the owl, in the name of friendship”. It will be seen. Special game will be for Pilu, the thirty -year -old from Turin with Parisian mother. He came under the Eiffel Tower three years ago to work in the hotel sector: “The first thing I did was subscribed to the Inter Club”. Like the Milanese Ludovico, 27 years old, occupied in the finance sector and who, in addition to the share of 30 euros a year, continues to pay the subscription to the Meazza, where he returns to the games at home: “I leave on Friday evening and return on Monday at dawn”. The final will see it in Paris. Not Michele, 36 years old, architect, enrolled in the Inter club “to suffer in company”. The last act of the Champions League is scheduled on the sofa at home, but in Parma, where he will return to follow it with his dad: “As in 2010. That time he brought us well, contrary to 2023 when we were not together”. Scaramma is a must, every detail matters. Like the lacquered nails of the Nerazzurri of Esther, forty year old, atypical Neapolitan, of the Juventus family, Interista for the love of his partner Ruggero, 56 years of whom 37 as a subscriber to Meazza: “And debut in curve in 1975”, he says. “For an inter-leveral”.
Romanists outside
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For seven years, Ester has also been part of the board, who every now and then organizes trips and some meeting with old Nerazzurri glories, such as Youri Djorkaeff or Nicola Berti. Even if the chorus that is the major, she explains, is the memory of the 2006 world championship: “All crazy about Materazzi”. However, that of Inter is one of the clubs of Italian fans with more adhering in Paris: “The Milan players remained in few”, points out Gianfranco. “The Roma fans were thrown out of their bar: they did too much mess. Those of the Napoli Club are no longer very active. And there are no news of those of Juventus”. On the other hand, the bianconeri would take revenge on the flag of the Inter club during the annual Kop Cup, an international football tournament of 7 of the expatriate fans who dispute in the summer on the outskirts of Paris. Francesca, 27 years old from Ferrara, in the board deals with fueling social media and on the side has decided to tattoo the guarantee of the Nerazzurri faith: “Amala”. “My first race at the Inter Club was the final two years ago with Manchester City. I hope it goes better, this time.” Sara, 37 -year -old Brianza, too in the board, is sure: “Thuram, our Frenchman will make the difference in the final for us”.
Spola with Belgium
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Sara at the Inter Club arrived through a Parisian friend fan of PSG. Inevitable weaves for the varied Italian and Nerazzurri community. Of which Pietro also includes Pietro, forty years old who for work reasons is a dirt with Belgium: “I also signed up at the Inter club in Brussels, so I don’t miss any game”. And then there is Aldo, an accent from Parigino DOC, “but of a Sicilian mother and the Inter family”, she is keen to underline. He is the driver of the evenings at Corcoran’s. With drum and megaphone, he has the task of giving the incipit to all choirs, perhaps giving his shrimp to the giant screen, without worrying too much about what happens on the pitch. As in the curve. So every game is experienced as a party and it is also an opportunity to find themselves and exchange some chat on life from expatriates, with different paths and origins, but united by the passion for the team of the heart. All with a beer or an aperitif in hand.
a mesh in half
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Finally there are the new levers. Like Esteban, the 15 -year -old son of Gianfranco, born in Paris and who, for this, in view of the final, inevitably has his heart divided in half: “He resolved him asking the grandmother to sew a shirt with half the PSG jacket and half of the Inter”, says his dad. The mother, Katy, was the first woman enrolled in Inter Club, from French: “He never came to games”, concludes Gianfranco. “But for the final with the PSG there will be, perhaps with my daughter coming from Nice”.
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