Another Inter World Cup champion: Lautaro is the 20th
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— Dec 18th 2022Nerazzurri players in the World Cup final continues: eleventh consecutive tournament
With Argentina's triumph at Qatar 2022, Lautaro Martinez has become a World champion at his first time of asking. The Nerazzurri striker ended the tournament with 6 appearances, playing 239 minutes in total, and put away the decisive penalty in the shootout in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands.
Toro has become Inter's 20th player to win the World Cup, and is the first after Marco Materazzi in 2006, who won it with Italy. This is the complete list of Inter players to have earned being a World Cup champion: Meazza (1934-1938); Allemandi, Castellazzi, Demaria (1934); Ferrari, Ferraris, Locatelli, Olmi (1938); Bergomi, Marini, Bordon, Oriali, Altobelli (1982); Matthäus, Klinsmann, Brehme (1990); Djorkaeff (1998); Ronaldo (2002); Materazzi (2006), Lautaro Martinez.
And not only: with Lautaro's introduction into the game on the 102nd-minute mark, the incredible run of at least one Nerazzurri player appearing in the World Cup final has stretched to eleven consecutive editions, meaning that since 1982, there has always been at least one Inter player on the field of play.
1982: Bergomi, Altobelli (goal), Oriali
1986: Rummenigge (goal)
1990: Brehme (goal), Matthäus, Klinsmann
1994: Berti
1998: Ronaldo, Djorkaeff
2002: Ronaldo (2 goals)
2006: Materazzi (goals)
2010: Sneijder
2014: Palacio
2018: Brozovic, Perisic (goals)
2022: Lautaro Martinez