Article by Daniel Scorpie – Published on Monday, 08 December 2025, 19:09 / Updated on Monday, 08 December 2025 19:12
Cristi coaches Chivu (45 years old) and Arne Slot (47 years old) face each other on Tuesday night in the 6th stage of the Champions League group on “Giuseppe Meazza” in the match Inter – Liverpool for the second time in football. On April 14, 2003, Ajax's captain beat NAC Breda's attacking midfielder (3-0) in the Dutch championship.
Inter is fighting to stay in the top eight teams in the Champions League group, a situation that will guarantee them direct qualification to the round of 16, and will face Liverpool in Milan tomorrow, from 22:00 (live text on GSP.ro, live on Digi Sport 1 and Prima Sport 1), in the Nerazzurri's attempt to beat the first big team this season.
Cristi Chivu and Arne Slot will face each other again, 22 years after their first and only meeting as players, which it happened in the 2002-2003 season. On April 14, 2003, NAC and Ajax Amsterdam met at the Rat Verlegh stadium in Breda, North Brabant.
Sneijder's “double” and Van der Meyde's goal decided the game
On the one hand, the hosts played Slot, a midfielder without speed, but technical, and on the other hand, Chivu, the captain of a team of “spears” full of talents such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Rafael Van der Vaart, Andy Van der Meyde and Wesley Sneijder.
The match had no history: Ajax clearly dominated and scored three goals: Sneijder and Van der Meyde, twice, all former Inter players, winning 3-0. At the end of that season, Chivu left Amsterdam for the transfer to AS Romaand Slot left a few years later in 2007.
The batting midfielder, who also teamed up with Clarence's cousin Stefano Seedorf, bid farewell after leading his side into the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup (a historic first) against Sir Bobby Robson and Alan Shearer's Newcastle.
