F.C.INTER MILANO official football club inter scarf INTERNATIONAL MILANO series in italia

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F.C.INTER MILANO official football club inter scarf INTERNATIONAL MILANO series in italia

F.C.INTER MILANO official football club inter scarf INTERNATIONAL MILANO series in italia

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Amid the golden glitter that soared into the Turkish sky as Ilkay Gundogan held the silver trophy aloft, there was a glorious release, an emotional exchange between Guardiola, City's players and fans - many of whom will remember the misery of long ago when this club spent a season in English football's third tier in 1998-99 but still drew average attendances of almost 30,000 at Maine Road. City had reached three quarter-finals, two semi-finals and one final (which they lost 1-0 to Chelsea in 2021) in the Champions League prior to Saturday's win This was the trophy Guardiola was brought to Manchester City to win. They had won league titles under Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini before him. His mission was to win the Champions League, hence that lingering - and in reality nonsensical - debate about his time at Etihad Stadium. A final shrill blast of Polish referee Szymon Marciniak's whistle will have sounded like the sweetest symphony to Guardiola and Manchester City's players. This was what they had worked and - make no mistake - suffered for. He knew there would always be an unspoken question mark about his time as Manchester City manager until the Champions League was won. This, in many respects, is the end game of phase one in City's assault on football's European peak. Now the Champions League itch has been scratched they will surely be favourites for next season's competition, indeed favourites once more for the three trophies they have won this campaign.

No-one can escape the simple fact they are currently facing Premier League charges of 115 breaches of financial rules that many believe sully their glories. It will certainly enter the debate in coming days but it must also be stated that City deny the charges and will defend themselves strenuously.

Clad in a Manchester City scarf, he smiled benignly as he watched the fruits of his fortune achieve the ultimate victory. Not a bad night for only your second game. And watching on high in Istanbul was Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour, attending only his second game since the club's Abu Dhabi owners took control in 2008. Just in the last two seasons, City's capacity for inflicting pain on themselves in the Champions League was illustrated in microcosm - by the loss to English rivals Chelsea in the 2021 final, then when defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory in a madcap semi-final second leg against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu last year. Kevin de Bruyne, who saw a second Champions League final cut cruelly short by injury, accepted this tournament had become both a dream and an obsession. The dream had been fulfilled. The obsession had disappeared. Inter and Moncler met in Tokyo for an evening event held as part of the Inter Japan Tour. It was an event that celebrated the partnership of two iconic brands that fundamentally link the worlds of football performance and fashion with the aim of always exploring new scenes and speaking to global communities. In the exclusive location of the Moncler Shibuya pop-up Boutique in the heart of Tokyo, the two brands came together for an extraordinary evening, involving respective representatives from the Top Management. Starting with the President of FC Internazionale Milano Steven Zhang and Mr Hiro Tamura, the President of Moncler Japan; the Nerazzurro Corporate CEO, Alessandro Antonello and the Inter Chief Revenue Officer Luca Danovaro; corporate guests and influencers; Nerazzurro legends Marco Materazzi and Fabio Galante, together with six players from the First Team: Francesco Acerbi, Joaquin Correa, Matteo Darmian, Denzel Dumfries, Robin Gosens and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who were the stars of an exciting and entertaining Q&A with the guests present.

The judgement on his work would always be framed, unfairly or otherwise, around whether he could add to his two victories with Barcelona in this competition - the last in 2011. Tears were shed as the realisation hit home that the day they longed for had finally arrived, that the Champions League pain was finally over. The mountain Manchester City have struggled to conquer had been climbed. No wonder grown supporters and plenty of players cried. Guardiola looked drained as City's players celebrated wildly around him. That was understandable because it will mean so much to him. Every Nike garment uses our pioneering technology to help you feel your best. If you're wearing your favourite Inter Milan shirt to watch the match, breathable fabrics will keep you fresh, whether you're in the stands or on your sofa. Relaxed fits and sleeveless styles offer extra ventilation. If you like a slimmer cut, turn to streamlined designs inspired by the pros.For Guardiola, who paced and pawed at the giant technical areas of Ataturk Stadium in agitation throughout an attritional encounter, this was his legacy sealed, his place among the game's greats secured by Rodri's 68th-minute winner. There were other factors, too. The eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland the previous month had created an ash cloud that led to the closure of European airspace and forced Barcelona to travel over 1,000km by bus to Milan. Ibrahimovic branded it a “disaster” but Barcelona’s defeat in the San Siro was down to a lot more than any fatigue they may have been feeling. The win also completed the Treble of Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup for Pep Guardiola and his side, joining arch-rivals Manchester United as the only English club to achieve the feat. He has won five Premier League titles in six years and dominated domestically but this makes his work complete, for now. This driven, intense perfectionist will want to do it all again, and better next season. Thirteen years on, Inter are a different side, there is no Mourinho and this is a one-off game, not a two-legged tie, but Guardiola is unlikely to have forgotten the day Internazionale of Milan administered one of his most painful Champions League experiences.

For all that conspired on the pitch, events off it felt no less significant in shaping an epic tie. If the Champions League has become something of a fixation for City’s Abu Dhabi owners, and an itch Guardiola is desperate to scratch, Barcelona’s desire to lift the European Cup in Madrid had become an “obsession”. The Barcelona players themselves were talking about a “once in the lifetime opportunity” and Mourinho - a master of the mind games - was only too happy to play to that theme and crank up the pressure to the point of it becoming an almost unbearable weight. “We want to follow a dream,” Mourinho said. “But it’s one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession. For Barcelona, it’s an obsession … it’s an obsession you can see and feel. To have a Catalan flag in the Bernabeu is an obsession.”There was a tinge of irony in Rodri emerging as City's match-winner because one of the major debates after the disappointing loss to Chelsea in Porto was Guardiola's mystifying decision to exclude his midfield powerhouse. No such mistake this time.



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