INTER: THE GHOST OF MOURINHO

Another defeat. Another humiliation suffered by Inter. This time against Bologna. Once more after the unexpected and historical  defeat at San Siro against Novara, a team that only 2 years ago was in Third Division. This time the nightmare of Inter’s defenders with the red and  blue striped jerseys of Bologna is called Marco di Vaio. Last week,  instead,  it was Andrea Caracciolo better known as the heron. A bird able to fly with easiness on the disgraces of Inter. The difference  is just the name of  Inter’s torturers but the result remain the same: Inter’s scalp has  become too easy to grab for their enemies. Now I aim to understand the reason  of this failure. Who is the one to blame? This is my complicate mission. Moratti is the first suspect:  the president that seems to have lost his prodigality and his desire to invest money in new champions . Not without fault is also coach Claudio Ranieri known in Premier League as the tinkerman but maybe in Milano it would be better to call him the impotent. Anyway how could we forget the squad?  A group of champions transformed into  a mixture between old and boiled champions and young players without the necessary experience to face Italian football. A world too hard for them. By the way, the perfect  example is Ricky Alvarez. Last year a promising talent in Argentina and this season in Italy a football player only good to play in slow motion. I think that all three factors  are true and help us to understand the reasons of the crisis. But they are not the only explanation.


I want to give another interpretation. An interpretation called Jose Mourinho. The Special one.  Not a simple trainer for Inter but something more. He represents an incredible love story ended with the triumph of Madrid when two seasons ago Inter won the third champions league in their history against Bayern Munchen. No time to celebrate the success. No time to receive the right tribute by Inter supporters  before Mourinho was off in the car of Florentino Perez already wearing the “camiseta blanca” of real Madrid.  Like a husband that leaves his wife at the altar after having married her in the moment of greatest happiness. Inter now is like a wounded lover still not able to accept another coach. Not able to forget their biggest love. Too sweet Leonardo, too ugly, for the strong aesthetic sense of people of  inter, Benitez, too inexperienced Gasperini, too normal Ranieri. None that  can compare  with Mourinho. The perfect man for Inter. Tough, passionate, combative and a decision maker. Not only a coach but a manager English-style able to take the place of Inter’s sport director, Marco Branca, and to replace the role of the  press officer as well.

Mourinho during his permanence at  Inter was good to cover the lack of professionalism in the black and blue club. Mou was the perfect man  - interpreting  that sense of belonging to a chosen race that Inter supporters , like nobody else, always have had . Inter are widow of Jose. The special one that, like Inter supporters still  think, would be the only one able to put fuel in the tank of motivations of these tired warriors of Inter. The same supporters  that after the defeat against bologna sang: “Jose Mourinho là-là-là là...”.  When I heard Inter supporter sing a song dedicated to the Portuguese coach I got an idea:  and If the main problem of Inter is the nostalgia they feel for Mourinho?? He’s  still in Inter environment, in Inter headquarters “Appiano Gentile”.  You can smell his perfume, you can hear his funny Portuguese accent, you can see his silver hair. He goes around disguised as a ghost disturbing  every other coach trying to take his place in the heart of Inter supporters.  Could the right solution to solve Inter ‘s crisis be hiring  a ghostbuster??