Hi guys! Im new in this forum. Im not a Inter Fan, but i love Football and the history of the Serie A.
Im from Argentina, and i have a very important question: Which is the most important rivalry in the Inter History? The Maddoninian Derby or the Italian Derby? Juventus or Milan? Why?
I always believed that the most important match for you are vs Juventus, but when i was talked with a friend who knows about calcio, he says it's against Milan.
Thanks you for your answers and very luck for the new season. Im a River Plate fan and Juventus defeat us in the Intercontinental 96 using drugs, and Milan lost vs Boca in the Intercontinental 2003, for this things, if i have to pick a Italian Club, i would choose you
Love my River Plate
The only teams that matter were founded in the first decade of the 1900s
Inter has ties with both River and Boca through former players but I'd say there's a slightly stronger bond with the River guys, although we've had a lot of Boca guys.
You know how it is with Italians and Argentina, you cannot get a replica on the other side of the ocean.
Daniel Passarella, Ramon Diaz, Hernan Crespo, Matias Almeyda and Santiago Solari come to mind. Esteban Cambiasso, if he counrs for River.
Cannot say Diego Simeone although he coached River, one of the seasons was the biggest disaster possibly.
Walter Samuel, Nicolas Burdisso and Rodrigo Palacio come to mind only. There's Banega but just for a year. And if you count Veron, maybe him, too.
Only Samuel is considered an absolute legend here.
As for your question, the biggesf derby for Inter is the one vs Juventus. That's also their biggest game. The Juventus vs Milan game is just something that's considered a "clasico" but not really "the" clasico. It's like River vs Boca which is the Superclasico, but main difference is that we're not city rivals, but the concept is very similar.
Inter, the Bauscia, is similar to the "Millonario" River in that sense, and Juventus is the FIAT worker from the south that was cleaning up the shit of some rich people. [Choice of words makes sense to fans of Argentine football]. So Juventus fans and "bosteros" were pretty similar in their formation. Milan on the other hand was the "socialist " team of the city, the working class team. So with both situations you have had a cultural clash.
All this is in the past now, and unlike Buenos Aires where you have a ton of local teams that the entire neighborhood supports, you had 2 teams in Milano and a family could be split in half. But Juventus was always the enemy. And in the last 40 yeas there has been a lot of migration of southerners to Milano so there's more ans more Juventini, which makes things even more heated for Inter fans. They live amongst us now, they're not just a few cities away.
And in Italy there's been a lot of football corruption, orchestrated by Juventus, so they're everyone's enemy.
We're the poster boys for the defense against Juventus. We're expected to stop them. Which is why they hate us the most. Milan mostly wanted to be like Juventus and they tolerate each other, if not envious of each other when one does well and the other doesn't.
So if you've seen Star Wars, we're Serie A equivalent of the Jedi and Juventus is Sith
Maybe that's why Palacio ended up here.
As for our fans, you can sense it at the stadium. When things go well and we wanna poke some fun and enjoy it, we sing about Milan.
When we're ready for war, our minds are on Juventus!
