Internazionale, better known as Inter Milan, or simply Inter, will play the club’s biggest match in the last decade.
With 3 European continental titles in the club’s history, Inter are aiming for their first Champions League crown since 2010 when they face Manchester City in Istanbul on Saturday.
The club has a rich history as a giant of Italian football, but its beginnings are much more global than that.
The Sporting News gives you an insight into the creation of Inter over a hundred years ago and the origin of its name.
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The Italian club’s full record is Football Club Internazionale Milano.
While many in the English-speaking world call the club “Inter Milan”, largely to differentiate the club from others with “Inter” in their name, this is not unusual in Italy.
Instead, they are called “Internazionale” or simply “Inter” for short. In fact, the club’s URL is inter. it and its Twitter and Instagram IDs are @inter.
The history of the two Milan clubs is linked, and their beginning is largely due to an English boy, Herbert Kilpin. In 1891, Kilpin moved to Turin, Italy, to work in the textile industry, for a boy who had founded the Internazionale. Torino, considered to be the first fully professional Italian football club. Kilpin played for the club, becoming the first Englishman to play professionally abroad.
Internazionale Torino went through a series of iterations before disbanding in 1906, allowing the birth of the existing Serie A Torino. In 1898, Kilpin moved to Milan and, in combination with another English-born player, Samuel Richard Davies, founded AC. Milan, known as Milan Foot-Ball and Cricket Club.
This club would be a great success, with Kilpin as player-coach. They gained the national name in 1901, in the current season of the club’s existence.
Inter was founded in 1908 when a players’ organization, which added a Swiss contingent, was dissatisfied with the club’s restrictions on foreign players, which is ironic given its roots. They separated to shape the Internazionale, with the call selected to demonstrate in particular its acceptance. of foreign players.
The literal call to “Milan International” in English.
Inter founding member Giorgio Muggiani, an Italian artist, designed the club’s badge.
Muggiani was a member of Milan Football and Cricket Club when he became embroiled in a war of words with then-president Giannino Campeiro over a ban on signing foreign players in the future.
Then Muggiani, along with other Italian and Swiss players and coaches, parted ways to shape Inter. Hernst Marktl, a Swiss player, the first captain of the club. Giovanni Paramithiotti, the first president of the club and Virgilio Fossati, the first coach of the team. , serving for six years. An Englishman, Bob Spottiswood, the club’s third manager, from 1922 to 1924.
Muggiani was the one who produced the club’s first crest, creating the nested FCIM that is still used today. In fact, the club returned to that same first shield, which lasted from 1908 to 1928. They returned to the same design from 1963 to 1966, and then from 2007 to 2021, with other variants employing incredibly similar designs.
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Indirectly, therefore, Muggiani is also largely to blame for the club’s nickname, Nerazzurri, which literally translates to “black and blue” in reference to the club’s colours. Legend has it that Muggiani chose black and blue to reflect the evening sky. After locating the badge around 11:30 p. m. m. one night in March.
Inter’s coat of arms went through a transitional replacement in 1928-1929 due to the tension of the Italian fascist government, which ordered the club to merge with Unione Sportiva Milanese to become Societa Sportiva Ambrosiana. The new shield contained the flag of Milan: a red cross on a white background, resembling the English flag of St. George but symbolizing the link between the city and Ambrose of Milan, its patron saint. The badge lasted only one year and the club reverted to its original call after World War II.