Article by Alexandru Barbu – published Monday, June 9, 2025 20:47 / Updated Monday, June 9, 2025 21:17
“It's an honor and pride,” says Chivu, Inter coach of Inter. Whether he will succeed or not, we know that the former captain of the national will keep his promise made on his father's death bed a quarter of a century: he will be responsible, he will take care of his.
Chivu was not the favorite client of Giovanni Becali because he was not a trick. Real Madrid, Barcelona, were fighting on him, but he had no instinct to trick, to force amounts with several zeros.
He left Romania in time, by kids, and succeeded with work, seriousness, madness and dignity. Our football would have infected it with self-sufficiency and superficiality. “Come on, you, you know?! That you took a champions league with luck, Robben destroyed you and you always ran out of national! The weakest defender from Inter!”
So there was no point in becoming a coach or working in Romania. He was officially UEFA, a teacher at the Academy of Inter, A1 at Parma, and today a technician at the vice -champion of Europe. The result of a fabulous career. Never cheated. No shortcuts, no piles, no caterpillar.
Cristi Chivu, Inter new coach
She is aware that Inter needs a restart. That it has no colossal transfer budget and it will be difficult. It was.
The same madness as in Barcelona
Even inter writes that “during his life, Cristian Eugen Chivu had to face major obstacles.”
The accident from the beginning of 2010 follows him today: “If I touch something with my left hand, I am obliged to look to realize what I have in my hand. Otherwise I do not know.” It was cruel: “It paralyzed me for a few seconds the whole left if I hit the ball with my head!”
But he never gave up.
Chivu did not have to play on the return with Barcelona in 2010. It was in the “Pill period”, as he described it a few months ago. “I was doing the stupid, I wasn't healthy.” Mourinho took it from the shower, taken to the field, where 100,000 Barcelona fans have been hired, set to play a midfielder and eliminated the best team in football history.
Because he had no choice.
The explanation is from '98
In the spring of 1998, at the limit between March and April, a few hours before Mircea Chivu was dying, Cristi visited. He had a match the next day, evolved with Reșița against Ceahlăului. “Go back to the cantonment and get ready for the game. Beat Ceahlăul for Resita and me!”, Said the former player and coach of the Banatians.
Of course, Reșița won, 5-1, scored Chivu. Years later, I also found out the last promise he made to his father: “Whatever I do, I will take care of my mother, I will be responsible, the family's head.”.
He never passed until Cristi transferred to Craiova, to Ajax, until he scored the supergol with England from Euro 2000. “I am sure Dad, from where he is, put his hand and stopped that ball in the gate.”
As Mircea can, Cristi's idol, put his hand on the pen with which his boy signed the contract with Inter.
Let's not lie, Chivu is not much longer in Romania. His success is not ours. We would not have known to value it and how to develop it. He is the victory of a fair man, thrown in life in the world and who from April 1, 1998 and until today has always kept his word. Especially today.
