HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!
Hi Inter,
I am an Inter fan of China, a postgraduate student of a University in the Northwest of China. I have been the fan of Inter for 12 years. Football was not as popular as it is now in China 12 years ago. I have to admit that one critical reason why I have deep feeling of Inter rather than AC Milan which was highly regarded by lots of my friends is because of Ronaldo. But I find my love did not pale when he move to Real Madrid, maybe I love Inter more.
I always told my friends that I can share some special feelings, some character with Inter. We are persistent, working hard, and have a dream of great success, but I have to say we are less confident in a long time.
The most impressive moment in my memory is the game Inter lose to Juventus in 1998, also it is the worst moment I can remember. I felt being greatly hurt when the referee refused to give penalty when Ronaldo was obviously offended in penalty zone, which eventually lead to the losing of the champion of that season.
I will never hesitate to say Zanetti if I was asked to tell my favorite plays in Inter. He is the captain of Inter, and has been and will always be a captain in my heart. He is a real man, a nice man no matter on the pitch or off pitch. His performance on the pitch and his charity things all make him a model for the professional players, for the common people like me. I feel closer with him when hearing his regards to the Chinese Inter fans in this Chinese Spring Festival, it just like a conversion with him, so warm. I like him and his Argentina national team just like I love Inter. My favorite national teams are Argentina, Dutch and Italy. It has always been my dream that Zanite captain the Argentina to win the World Cup in 2010. I cried when they had a draw with Sweden and stopped entering the next round in 2002. I was made angry when he was refused to German in 2006 because of some ridiculous reason. I hope I can see him in Beijing Olympic game.
And another one is Roberto Baggio, he is an artist on the pitch, though he didn’t stay a long time in Inter, the picture that he is in Inter shirt is always set as my desktop of my computer and the icon of MSN.
One interesting thing is that my birthday is recorded as January 22 when I registered as a member in the official website of Inter, it was the day calculated by Chinese traditional calendar, and it should be March 8 when calculated in Gregorian calendar. I strongly apply to change my birthday to March 8 and then I can receive the present from Inter the day before the birthday of Inter :-) Is there anything greater than this?
The following is my birthday letters from Inter in the past several years. Now let me say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Inter!!
Hi PINUO,
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Hi PINUO,
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Hi pinuo,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Hi pinuo,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
Hi pinuo,
To receive the birthday letter has become part of my life, which told me I am one years older, and it is time to review what I have done last year and to make a plan for the next year.
I am always image what I will look like if I receive the shirt from Inter with Veri’s number 32. What my life will be, my work, my family. If I have a kid, I will show him(her or them :-) ) my shirt.
We have to work hard and show our courage especially when we are in adversity. My heart will be with you in the game against Liverpool at the Stadio Meazza. Beat them as we do in 1965. I have faith in you!!
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MILAN Giacinto Facchetti was born in Treviglio, Bergamo province on 18 July 1942. A gifted all-round sportsman in his youth, he played football for his local team and achieved good results in athletics championships. At the age of sixteen he was already a promising young player courted by Bergamo-based side Atalanta and Inter. Facchetti chose the Milanese Nerazzurri, and would go on to become a legend. Facchetti made his Italian top-flight debut on 21 May 1961 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Inter beat Roma 2-0. The following Sunday in Milan he scored the first of his 59 goals for Inter in a match against Napoli. It was Helenio Herrera, coach of the legendary Great Inter side of all time, who combined Facchetti's attacking and defending abilities and invented the role of the modern full-back.
In his playing career Facchetti won 4 Italian league titles, 2 European Cups, 2 Intercontinental Cups and a Coppa Italia. He collected a total of 476 Serie A appearances for Inter. His international career was just as extraordinary. Facchetti earned 94 Italy caps (70 as captain), won the 1968 European championship with Italy in 1968 and captained the Azzurri against Brazil in the World Cup final in Mexico in 1970.
After his playing career Facchetti took up various managerial positions at Inter, including technical director, board member, worldwide ambassador and vice president. On 30 January 2004 Massimo Moratti handed him the highest office: Facchetti was the first player in Inter's history to become president. Under his administration, Inter won a Scudetto, two Italian Cups and two Italian Super Cups.
An icon of world football, Facchetti held a number of institutional roles within FIFA and UEFA along with the great champions who have written the history of the sport.
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Dear Cipe,
I didn't manage to tell you what I wanted to for fear of making you understand that time was inexorable and the illness terrible.
I am sorry, but I think I should thank you most of all for the patience you have always had with me. For your eyes that smiled, until the end, at the enthusiasm or the irony with which I tried to overcome the difficult times with you.
A few days ago you spoke to me with hardly any voice left - and with the expression of someone who loves you - about Inter, projecting your thoughts towards a future beyond our possibilities, humble, ignorant and human.
A few months ago I asked you, half joking and half serious, why we never managed to have a referee as a friend, so we could feel protected at least once. And you, with an expression that was both soft and severe, replied to me that I couldn't ask you this because you weren't capable.
Fantastic. Your great dignity wasn't capable of it, your natural honesty wasn't capable of it. Neither was the sportsmanship that remained intact since your first day at Inter, with Herrera who mistakenly called you Cipelletti, and since then all of us have called you Cipe. Gentle, intelligent, courageous, reserved, far from every vulgar reaction.
Thank you again for having honoured Inter, and with her, all of us.
Massimo Moratti
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