Former Inter player Ruben Sosa has revealed that former president Ernesto Pellegrini’s wife believed he was only joining Inter for the money based off of the way he wrote his signature.
“Each stage of my career was important, but Inter was the best part of my career and I’m a fan of Inter and I had it in my heart,” he began an interview with Go Play Sports.
“When I signed my contract with Inter we were talking for two hours and my agent and the club president could not agree on the money. So I signed an autograph for the wife of the president, who was Pellegrini at that time.
“He got every player he was going to sign to write their signature so his wife could analyse it. And the way you wrote she could define your personality, and then she would recommend whether or not you would be good or bad for the club.
“For me she said no he’s not a good guy, he’s a horrible person, he only wants the money and he does not make friends.
“I replied by saying to the president that Inter, for me, were the best in the world.
“We proposed that if I scored less than 20 goals the club could pay me the money they wanted, whatever…$100, but if I get more than 20 goals then you have to pay me what my agent wants. I scored 24 and played three years in a row.”
He was then asked if winning the UEFA Cup with Inter in the 1993/94 season was the highlight of his player career to which he responded: “Winning the UEFA Cup with Inter was good, but the highlight of my career was winning the two Copa Americas with Uruguay.”
Sosa joined Inter ahead of the 1992/93 season from fellow Serie A side Lazio where he had spent the four previous years and made a name for himself in Italy.
The Uruguayan would go on to make 104 appearances across all competitions for the club during his time on the books in which he scored 50 goals and provided 10 assists for his Nerazzurri teammates.
He left Inter in the Summer of 1995 and joined Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund where he would spend a single season.
After spells with Logrones, Nacional, Shanghai Shenhua and Racing Montevideo, he called time on his playing career in 2007. He made 362 appearances across his career in which he scored 122 goals and tallied a total of 14 assists.
