My Inter Shirts, Materazzi’s collection

“Wearing the Inter shirt means defending its special colours. You become one with the values of the Club.”

You see it in the dressing room, you put it on your back, and you know that you have to give everything to honour it, in every minute of every game. My Inter Shirts kicks off with someone who wore the Inter shirt for ten years: Marco Materazzi. The shirts he still holds today form a part of his and the Nerazzurri’s history, priceless relics of battles on the pitch, conquests, goals achieved and unforgettable victories.

“The shirts that mean the most to me are those from the Treble: Siena, Rome, Madrid and Abu Dhabi, those are the ones I hold dearest. The nicest shirt absolutely has to be the one from our 100th anniversary, when I wore it I felt like I was going out to defend the city of Milan’s colours, everything that Inter and this city meant to me.”

Wearing the Nerazzurri shirt means being part of a Club, part of a family made up out of millions of fans, part of a team. In his collection, Materazzi’s number 23 is surrounded by shirts from great champions with whom he shared a piece of Nerazzurri history. Among these came a special story of when he arrived at Inter:

”Another important shirt is Ronaldo El Fenomeno’s, because I always dreamed of being able to play together with him. I remember meeting him on the day of my medical after I arrived in Milan, in that moment it felt like I was in a dream, because I was there with the greatest player in the history of football.”

And then there are some shirts that make you excited, shirts that every player and every fan would always love to have. For Materazzi that shirt would be from someone who scored spectacular goals, put in incredible sprints, and someone who had a unique class and temperament about them that truly captured the spirit of an Interista:

“The shirt that I’d like? Nicolino Berti’s, sooner or later we’ll do a swap! I think that he was one of the players who truly represented the Nerazzurri colours.”

Forza Inter!

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