Riyadh - Milano, day 7 - The trophy

There is a way to cancel out distance: cover it at high speed. There are places that seem so remote that you would never imagine they could end up in your photo album. And, then, they become your destiny: Riyadh, more than 4000 kilometers from Milano, we have come to know you, we have travelled through your busy streets. And in this enormous city, full of streets and cars, we triumphed again, like last year. From Milano to Riyadh, door to door. Running at full speed. How long does it take to run across a football pitch? How long is a goal? We waited for 91 minutes and then there it came, two passes, and the ball crossed the line and off we go: the shirt taken off, which then becomes a flag. An Inter flag. Off to the fans who arrived from Iraq, Lebanon, the Emirates, Oman, Qatar. From Milano. Lautaro Martinez and Riyadh, it’s history repeating itself. The number 10 shirt. The fireworks. Inter, Inter, from the stands. We are one people, driven by a passion that never ends. The one that always pushes us, even in the trickiest of matches, in the most difficult moments. Sprinting from one end of the pitch to the other there is the child inside us, a goal in the park like the one in a final. How much does a trophy weigh? For sure, it sparkles. And it shines in the hands of these guys, who cuddle it, lift it up high, and then take it on the plane for one last mission of a long, demanding week that ended in the best possible way. Milano is waiting: there is a place for this trophy, alongside those of recent years. Inter won. We won.