Bologna-Inter: SPECIAL award for Cristian Chivu!

Cristian Chivu is the best coach of the 2025/2026 championship. This is not only confirmed by the championship title he brings home in his debut on the bench of the First Team of Inter, but also by a jury composed of Directors of sports news outlets who awarded the Romanian coach the Philadelphia Coach Of The Season prize.

Obviously, the calculation does not include the last Serie A match, scheduled for tomorrow at 18:00 at the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara against Bologna. And it is precisely on the occasion of the match against the rossoblù that Chivu will receive the award.

Below is the statement from Lega Serie A:

“Cristian Chivu’s season at the helm of Inter has been simply extraordinary – declared the CEO of Lega Calcio Serie A Luigi De Siervo -. In his first year on the bench of a professional team from the start of the season, Chivu immediately showed the winning DNA he also had as a player, leading his boys to play a solid yet proactive football, which led the Nerazzurri to finish the season with more than two goals per game on average and with a gap of about 30 goals over the second-placed team. It took Chivu only 48 matches as a coach in Serie A to be crowned Champion of Italy (second only to Mourinho in the three-point era) and by adding the Coppa Italia victory to the Scudetto, he became the only coach to achieve this historic double in his first season on the Inter bench. Numbers and records that confirm Cristian Chivu’s rightful place among the great coaches of our Serie A”.