Inter defender Matteo Darmian feels that his time at Inter has already been a hugely eventful spell despite having only been with the club for a little over a season.

Speaking in the matchday programme for the Nerazzurri’s Champions League clash with Shakhtar Donetsk this evening, as reported by FCInterNews, the 31-year-old reflected on his time spent with the club.

Darmian joined from Parma in the summer of 2020, and he went on to help the Nerazzurri to their first Scudetto in eleven years in his first campaign with the club.

This season, the defender has if anything gotten a more prominent role at the club,starting regularly on the right side of the team in the absence of Achraf Hakimi and impressing greatly with his displays in some of the biggest matches of the season.

For the 31-year-old, some of the most memorable moments in an Inter shirt have been those where his contributions proved decisive to the team.

“During a season and a half with Inter, I have played in many exciting and adrenaline-pumping matches,” he stated. “The ones in which I feel I really left my mark were the victories at San Siro against Cagliari and Hellas Verona, both won 1-0, both with a goal from me. These were two important successes towards winning the Scudetto.”

Of the squad he stated that “We are a good group, I have lived here for a year and a half but it’s been very intense.”

“The best moment was winning the Scudetto,” he went on. “My nicest teammate? Cordaz! The most difficult to face in training is Lautaro, while the opponent I wish to have met is Hazard.”

He explained that “Playing for the national team is special, in the Azurri jersey I experienced my greatest emotion in the first match of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil against England. That was my first game as a starter and my first victory.”

Darmian also brought things back to his early memories, stating that “When I was a child, I went to the oratorio to play football with my friends whenever I could.”

“I spent whole days like this and obviously I dreamed of becoming a footballer one day,” he went on. “They were wonderful years, football was a moment of fun and leisure.”