remember what the world was like when Inter were champions

This Saturday, the 10th, the Inter Milan will compete in the final of Champions League against manchester city. The ball will roll from 4 pm (Brasília time) and will have the Atatürk Olympic Stadium as the stage of the confrontation. While the English club is looking for an unprecedented title in its history, the “Great Cobra” is trying to lift the trophy for the fourth time.

THE INTER OF 2010

In 2010, in the last season in which the Italian club reached the final of the competition, the squad was made up of names like Julius Caesar, Lucius, Zanetti, Samuel Eto’o It is Sneijder. Ahead of the team, Jose Mourinho was the coach responsible for leading his players to a 2-0 triumph against Bayern Munchenat the Santiago Bernabéu; Diego Milito scored the two goals of the match.

GOLDEN SEASON

It is worth noting that the 2009/2010 season was impeccable for Inter Milanwho won the triple crown: in addition to the Champions League itself, ‘Nerazzurra’ won the Série A of the Italian Championship and took the Club World Cup home by defeating the Mazembefrom the Democratic Republic of Congo, by 3 to 0.

CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA

At the global level, the 2010 FIFA World Cup was started 20 days after the big Champions League decision. At the time, the tournament was rocked by the hit “Waka Waka” by Shakira; it was at the World Cup in South Africa, by the way, that the Colombian met the then player Gerard Piquewho defended the selection of the Spain and whom he married. The artist and the former defender broke up last year.

BRAZILIAN FOOTBALL

In Brazilian territory, the Fluminense won the third championship of Serie A. saintson the other hand, had billed the Brazil’s Cup in the same season; star of the squad at the time, Neymar became the top scorer of the tournament, with 11 goals scored. At Liberators cupthe winner also came from the green and yellow country: the International was two-time continental champion on the Chivas Guadalajara.

GENERAL CURIOSITIES

The year 2010 was also marked by the boom of Twitter, the most used social network in the period. In pop culture, films like “Avatar” (which had surpassed Titanic at the box office), “Alice in Wonderland” and “Eclipse” (from the Twilight saga) rocked movie theaters. The world was also close to reaching 7 billion inhabitants and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ended his second term as president of Brazil.