“Ronaldo was bothering a lot of cakes and chocolates. And in just a few hours he managed a” double “!”
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Friday, September 5, 2025, 17:45 / Updated on Friday, September 5, 20:51
Fabio Galante, former double European youth champion with the national Italian and winner of the UEFA Cup (had for 14 coach matches Mircea Lucescu), said unknown episodes from the two decades spent on the lawn. The former 88-party store in the Nerazzurro T-shirt, considered in the 1990s one of the sexiest footballers in Italy, says that “if I had been ugly, I would have a better career.”
In the interview in La Gazzetta Dello Sport, Fabio Galante (20 selections, 4 goals at the U21 national) revealed some of the special moments of the 20 years in Empoli, Genoa, Inter, Turin and Livorno and recalled how he interacted with emblematic figures in Serie A and not only, colleagues and coaches.
The former central defender, now 51 years old and Inter Brand of Inter and talented searcher on series A series, was shocked when he saw the Brazilian Ronaldo menu, with whom he was a colleague between 1997 and 1999.
Fabio Galante, at the radio-TV station set up by the Italian series A / Photo: IMAGO
It is hard for me to remember all the good attackers I have met. I would list Batistuta, Shevchenko, del Piero, Toti, Mancini, Vialli, Vieri, Inzaghi, Montella, Di Natale, Toni, Gilardino, Lucarelli … Pippo was absolutely incredible. He didn't look for the ball, the opposite
Fabio Galanteformer central defender of Inter
“I had the privilege to play with the best: Il Phenomeno!”
Asked how the three years in Inter, Galante said: “Beautiful, I had a great team and a single coach, Gigi Simoni. In 1998, in Paris, I won the UEFA Cup, the first trophy in Era Moratti. I had the privilege of playing with the best of all, Il Phenomeno!
In Moscow, against Spartak, he scored a goal dancing on ice, invented from nowhere. And I said, “Our tactics works, isn't it, Ronie?” He was luscious to anything, food and life.
Fabio Galante, in duel with Ronaldo, from a match of February 11, 2007, between Milan and Livorno / Photo: Imago
Once I went to visit him in Madrid, when he was playing at Real, and on the bedside table he had dozens of chocolates, cakes and sweets. I told him: Ronie, but you have to play tonight … And he, with a full mouth, replied, “Yes …”. That night he scored two goals! ”.
“What do you care about a note 5 when you have all the women you have?”
Fabio complained that the fact that he was a good man in his career: “Yes, I was a handsome, I was meeting the girls in the showbiz at that time. But on Sunday, as soon as I was a mistake, he was coming out: Who knows where he was gallant last night? It's hard to get rid of the labels, but I have been ignored.
Fabio Galante, in 2021 at the show “Ballando con le stelle” / photo: Imago
There is even envy. Once I called a journalist who had given me note 5 in the chronicle. I asked him to explain my note, and he replied: “What do you care about a 5 when you have all the women you have?” I was shocked, but what kind is this to compare to yourself? ”.
If God would see me on a sad day, he would give me hair and tell me: What do you want more from life? I have been with Francesca for ten years, a wonderful woman. We like to travel, we even took the tour of the world, from Japan to California. We hope to increase our family soon
Fabio Galanteformer central defender of Inter
