“Inter can bridge the gap and compete with the two strongest teams, Juventus and Napoli, due to the fact of not playing in Europe this season. Although, as a team Inter is not as strong , even if they purchased the two of the most interesting young players on the Italian market, Belfodil and Icardi.”
These are the words of Marco Materazzi from an interview in Andria today. These are the words of Marco Materazzi from an interview in Andria today. Inter’s former number 23 have just finished his training at Coverciano to become a first team-coach.
“I now run a sportswear shop in Milan, as regarding to the career as a coach, there are always many candidates. Football gets harder and harder and I’m not going to be the coach that give the players some relief after two weeks of training.”
Also much talk about racism in Italy this day and age and Materazzi is not afraid to speak about the serious accusations from the South Korean-player Ahn who claims Materazzi harassed him because of his nationality during their time spent together in Perugia. Materazzi adresses the issue like this:
“Look, this guy was eating garlic in the same way a person would eat apples and I told him that his breath stank. What am I suppose to tell him? It’s nothing racist about that. This is just a story he made up to get some recognition. Nobody knows who he is anymore, not even in Korea. However, racism is a problem in football today and Boateng and Balotelli are being targeted a lot. Although I would tell them to press charges instead of walking out of a match. Yet again, it’s easy to walk of the pitch in a pre-season match. I don’t think they’d do that against Barcelona. In my opinion, I’m fed up with the hatred and I feel like chants in the type of “son of a b…” is just as bad as these racist chants.”
