Delvecchio remembers Moratti's Inter and talks about today's team

Marco Delvecchio retraces his career in an interview published today by the Corriere della Sera, starting from his youth beginnings. At eleven years old, he took a trial with Milan, selected by Italo Galbiati, but his father decided not to send him, considering him too young. “I sulked for a month, but he was right. ‘If you’re really good, another opportunity will come,’ he declared,” recounts the former striker.

At fifteen, the call from Inter arrived. He was playing for the Sempione Nord team in Quarto Oggiaro when the Nerazzurri noticed him, and Interello became his home. “I couldn’t believe I was training near the first team,” recalls Delvecchio, who at the time was studying accounting in Rho and faced long daily commutes to reach Appiano Gentile. He left at 1:30 p.m., crossed Milan by subway and bus, returned to Arese at 7:30 p.m. exhausted, studying early in the morning before starting the routine again.

In 1991, he joined the first team, with Zenga as his locker neighbor. “That locker room was crazy: Matthaeus, Brehme, Bergomi, Riccardo Ferri… Charisma and personality to spare, at first I was intimidated,” he explains. When he returned in the 1994-95 season, Moratti predicted he would become the flag-bearer of Inter, but while he was at training camp with the Under 21s, he was informed of the swap with Branca and the move to Roma. “In the end, it worked out well for both of us,” he comments.

Among the memories, the one of Nicola Berti stands out, his roommate in Appiano for two years. “Hilarious. Sometimes he would wake up at 3 a.m., even before a match, and wanted to play poker, he even smoked cigars, at that hour of the night he would get calls from unimaginable people. Once he kept saying goodbye ‘bye Giorgio, bye Giorgio’: it was Giorgio Armani.”

On the current Inter, Delvecchio gives a clear opinion: “It’s the strongest team of the last five years, but it has won little in terms of league titles. Dumfries will be a heavy loss, Stones is a good player, if they also get Romero they’ll fix the defense, but the team needs to be rejuvenated a bit.”