FOOTBALL: INTER MILAN

Football Club Internazionale Milano, most commonly referred to as Internazionale and as simply Inter in Italy, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy, founded in 1908. Inter are the only side in Italian football to have spent their entire history in Serie A, making them the club with the most seasons spent in this top tier. Playing in black and blue striped shirts with black shorts, they have eighteen Serie A titles to their name. Including the Coppa Italia and the Italian Super Cup, Inter have a total of 25 trophies won in Italy.

Outside of their homeland, the club have also had success in European and World tournaments; they won the European Cup in two successive finals in 1964 and 1965. They have also won the UEFA Cup three times and the World Club Championship twice. Additionally, Inter was one of founding members of the G-14, a group that formerly represented eighteen of the largest and most prestigious[2] European football clubs.

The term Inter Milan is a nickname used primarily in the English-speaking world to differentiate it from other teams named "Inter", and is not used within Italy.

Inter play their home games at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, also known as San Siro. The ground, which they share with rivals AC Milan, is the largest in Italian football, with a total capacity of 80,018. Inter is training in the fields of sports center "Angelo Moratti" (better known as La Pinetina) in Appiano Gentile, near Como.
Current squad

Current squad

[edit] Players

As of 21 December 2008 ^[10]

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Francesco Toldo
2	DF	Iván Córdoba (vice-captain)
4	DF	Javier Zanetti (captain)
5	MF	Dejan Stanković
6	DF	Maxwell
7	MF	Luis Figo
8	FW	Zlatan Ibrahimović
9	FW	Julio Cruz
10	FW	Adriano
11	MF	Luis Jiménez
12	GK	Júlio César
13	DF	Maicon
14	MF	Patrick Vieira
15	MF	Olivier Dacourt
16	DF	Nicolás Burdisso

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Hernan Crespo
19	MF	Esteban Cambiasso
20	MF	Sulley Muntari
21	FW	Victor Obinna
22	GK	Paolo Orlandoni
23	DF	Marco Materazzi (vice-captain)
24	DF	Nelson Rivas
25	DF	Walter Samuel
26	DF	Cristian Chivu
33	MF	Mancini
36	MF	Francesco Bolzoni
37	DF	Andrea Mei
39	DF	Davide Santon
45	FW	Mario Balotelli
77	MF	Ricardo Quaresma

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		FW	Robert Acquafresca (at Cagliari)
		DF	Rincón (at Ancona)
		DF	Ivan Fatić (at Salernitana)
		MF	Attila Filkor (at Sassuolo)
		MF	Ibrahim Maaroufi (at Twente)
		DF	Gabriele Puccio (at Verona)
		GK	Enrico Alfonso (at Pisa)
		MF	Luca Siligardi (at Bari)
		FW	Jonathan Biabiany (at Modena)

No.		Position	Player
		FW	David Suazo (at Benfica)
		GK	Giacomo Bindi (at Varese)
		DF	Daniele Pedrelli (at Treviso)
		MF	Ronny Diuk Toma (at Valenzana)
		MF	Nicola Redomi (at Valenzana)
		DF	Daniele Federici (at Grosseto)
		FW	Gianluca Litteri (at Slavia Prague)
		DF	Leonardo Bonucci (at Pisa Calcio)

[edit] Non-playing staff

Position	Staff
Head Coach	José Mourinho
Assistant Coach	Giuseppe Baresi
Physical fitness Coach	Rui Faria
Goalkeeping Coach	Silvino Louro
Technical assistant	Andre Villas Boas
Director in charge of transfers	Marco Branca
Transfer Market Consultant First-Team Representative	Gabriele Oriali