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Almost twenty-nine years ago, I had the chance to watch the great football team of Internazionale Milano, and since then it has been my favorite Italian club. In the summer of 2006, the Nerazzurri (black and blue) team broke a seventeen-year Seria A title drought. After forty-five years of European misfortune, Inter has won the UEFA Champions League against the famous German team of Bayern Munich. This victory meant that the Inter coach Jose Mourinho completed the Continental Treble, winning the Champions League (CL), the Italian league (scudetto) and the Italian cup. This accomplishment has never been done by anyone in the 102-year-old club’s history. With no more to prove in Milan, the highly controversial Portuguese coach would very possibly start a new endeavor with another emblematic football club: Real Madrid. At the Bernabeu Stadium, Michel Platini handed the CL cup to Javier Zanetti, the captain who won the trophy in his 700th appearance for the club. Continue reading ‘The Name Of The Game’