Istanbul Başakşehir midfielder Emre Belozoglu, was interviewed by MondoFutbol about his time at Inter and his former coach Hector Cuper.
The diminutive Turkish midfielder had a 4 year stint in the blue and black side of Milan racking up 79 appearances and 3 goals. These were his words to MondoFutbol: “Inter is my team in Italy. Italy is my second country because I met many friends in Milan. When I have 2-3 free days I always go there to spend some time. When I was young they used to call me mosquito, but now I’m older and more technical and I prefer to play with my head. At Inter I played with many good players like Lele Adani. Hector Cuper has a big heart, I worked with a lot of coaches but he was different, he was very direct, and would say everything to your face, a very good person, a friend of the players, for these reasons I was happy to have worked with him, it was a great honor.”
he is still playing ?!?!
ya big thanks cuper for selling il fenomeno and giving us il mosquito, okan, guly, pasquale etc ^^ cuper is the man. straight telling the bs that is going to his mind to peoples faces. wow
Cuper didn’t sell Ronaldo, Ronaldo REQUESTED to leave. It’s a big difference.
yes i can remember that Hector Cuper gave us the tranquility after Lippi and Tardelli.. but then Ronaldo asked to leave..
Actually Ronaldo left because he hated Cuper’s defensive tactics and didn’t think a coach like him would be able to get the best out of the Vieri-Ronaldo duo.
Ronaldo gave an ultimatum of him or Cuper and Moratti went with Cuper.
Given Cuper would never hit the same heights with Inter or anywhere else while Ronaldo remained a phenomenon for years to come there is no doubt Moratti made the wrong call. But hind sight is 20-20 and think Moratti thought that he had found Helenio Herrera reborn in Cuper at the time.
But seriously who substitutes Ronaldo with Kallon with Inter needing goals and the Scudetto on the line…