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1. How and when did you become a fan of Inter? It happened during the summer of 1997, when Inter bought Il Fenomeno  Ronaldo Da Lima. That triggered my life-long love for Inter. I had been following Serie A for a few years already, and enjoyed watching Batistuta very much at Fiorentina but never did pick a team to follow. But that move for Ronaldo was it for me. I recall I had just started working and one of my very first purchases was an Inter jersey. I’ll never forget starting in to that black and blue jersey! Love at first sight. Club president Ricardo Galiano with El Capitan Javier Zanetti 2. How did Inter Club LA come about?   A couple of guys had been meeting for many years during the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Three of them every weekend would meet and cheer on the black and blue. Then the idea came about where they decided to become officially organized. Inter Club became an official club during the U.S. tour of 2009. It was a great coincidence th...

With election of a new president of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC, Italian football federation), there is great opportunity for much needed reforms in Italian football. I’ll spare you a long preamble which would enlist the myriad of problems with Italian football - be it a failed national team showing at the past two world cups, apathy toward the Italian Cup, a spiralling UEFA club coefficient, poorer stadium attendance, shrinking percentage of Italian footballers in the league, increase in violence and of racist and territorial discrimination - we will present ten practical reforms (some small, some big) that would improve Italian football’s current state and brand, in particular Italy’s foremost football division, Serie A. 1. Build New, Club-Owned Stadia Not hard to propose “club-owned stadia” as one of the much needed changes. The “how” is as - if not more - important than the “what”. Italian government will not gift Serie A club’s brand new stadia and th...

Milan's Bryan Cristante has completed his passage to Portuguese giants Benfica on the last day of the transfer window for a reported fee of €6 million . Cristante's North American connection is his Toronto-born father, as reported on this site, here .  Cristante on his way to Lisbon where he will complete his medical today and finalize the deal. The Milan youth product made only three appearances in as many seasons for the rossoneri .