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PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT
I was 7 years old when Lothar scored the winner that secured the club's 13th Serie A title in recordbreaking fashion. Trap's Inter dei Record of 1989. That was the first Serie A match I watched on TV. My aunt's husband (RIP) who was German, had installed a satellite dish on the balcony in no small part to watch Brehme (RIP) & Lothar dethrone cross town rivals Milan by beating Maradona and his Napoli to become champions of the greatest league the world has ever seen.
And I was hooked.
Watching Bergomi, Zenga, the aforementioned Lothar and Brehme, Ferri, Berti etc celebrate the title at the San Siro was as close to a magical experience that I ever had at the age of 7, all by just watching TV.
Because the San Siro that day was so magical, that just watching it on TV felt like it was the first day since having fled Iran 5 years earlier with my mother and grandmother (RIP), that life wasn't in black & white anymore. But once more it was a beautiful spectrum of colours so bright I could taste the hues of black, blue, red, white & green under the scorching Milanese sun. Needless to say I fell in love with Italy that day too.
But from that day on I was an Interista. After that day, I used to save up my weekly allowance I got from my mum to buy day old Gazzetta dello Sport papers (yes kids there was a period where there was no internet). Obviously I couldnt speak a lick of Italian back then, but turning the pages of the legendary pink newspaper looking at the words in big bold letters over action shots of Maldini, Baggio, Serena etc made me dream.
I dreamt one day I would learn Italian. And maybe one day I could go to Milan, to the San Siro and watch Inter play. My mum recently reminded me recently that when she asked me back then what I wanted to be when I grew up I said lawyer and journalist. And tram driver. It's a Gothenburg thing. Don't worry about it.
As life would have it, I was able to not only learn Italian, and visit the San Siro to watch Inter play, but I was lucky enough to call all of it my work. Because SempreInter.com was born out of a desire of not wanting Inter fans to grow up like me in the sense that just because we couldn't speak Italian we couldn't follow the daily news about Inter.
And so in February 2012 SempreInter was born. And every day since then, I made sure that sourced news about Inter was published in English. I say made sure, as in the past tense, because as of today I am no longer in charge of that. I want to wish the new owners the best of luck moving forward.
But above all, to all the millions of Inter fans worldwide that have read the over 118000 articles we published these last 14.5 years, to everyone that commented, shared the articles across all social media platforms, every guest we had on the #StudioInter podcast, every former Inter player we interviewed, every single writer and collaborator who contributed to the site, and of course to everyone at Inter itself: thank you x infinity.
I will continue to cover Inter and all of Calcio on @ItaFootPod with @carlogarganese & this exit will allow me to focus much more on that as well, especially given how well the pod is going and as a result how much more time it is taking up.
But in the meantime, Im looking forward to a summer off from the mercato, my first one off in 14 years.
So now I will savour the 21st Scudetto & hopefully a 10th Coppa Italia title that shines like a silver star with the rest of all you brothers and sisters of the world.
Grazie per tutto. Ma sempre e solo: Forza Inter.
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