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How Calhanoglu plays his way into the hearts of Inter Milan’s fans

Scudetto means small shield. The soccer team that won Serie A last season can stick the little sign in the Italian national colors on their jerseys. This August is Inter Milan. After nine years of continuous success at Juventus Turin, the Italian champions are back from Lombardy.

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Hakan Calhanoglu has nothing to do with Inters 19th Scudetto in the narrower sense, he played in the preseason for local rivals AC Milan, who finished second in Serie A after all. But because he switched from the Rossoneri to the Nerazzurri in the summer, the 27-year-old native of Mannheim wore the Italian champions’ shield on his chest at the start of the season against CFC Genoa on Saturday, quite proudly, as it turned out.

The champions prevailed with 4-0 goals, Calhanoglu was the best man on the pitch, gave an assist and scored a goal himself. “Inter – just a show”, was the headline of the Gazzetta dello Sport. Calhanoglu made himself almost unforgettable on his debut for Inter. When the former Bundesliga professional (Hamburger SV, Bayer Leverkusen) was replaced after almost 80 minutes, most of the 27,000 spectators in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium stood up and applauded.

Ibrahimovic’s debut

In Italy, fans with appropriate anti-corona certificates are allowed back into the stadium, 50 percent utilization is currently allowed. The fact that a new player was so celebrated on his debut was perhaps also due to the emotions of the fans when they returned after a year and a half.

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