GSP analysis Cristi Chivu, the best debut match in inter -series A in the history of the club! »Herrera, Trapatoni, Mourinho, Lippi and Count did not start with 5-0

Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 11:32 / Updated Tuesday, August 26, 2025 11:43
Since 2001, from Argentine Hector Cuper, no foreign coach has begun his mandate at Inter in the championship with a success. But very few would have expected the start of the Nerazzuri with Cristi Chivu On the technical bank to coincide in series A with such a clear victory, 5-0 with Turin.
Even though it is only in the 14th match as a coach in Serie A (the first 13 ticked them in Parma), the 44-year-old Romanian has achieved a small performance. Which, no matter how and when his mandate will end, will remain in the club's history.

Inter – Turin 5-0, Cristi Chivu's debut in Serie A on the “Nerazzurilor” bench / Photo: Imago Images
Herrera, Conte and S. Inzaghi are closest to Chivu
No technician in the annals of the club founded on March 9, 1908 recorded a start with such a conclusive score: a triumph at five goals difference!
Emotions are normal. That's how it worked and when I was a player. To return to a stadium like this one in the position of coach, in a team in which I wrote important pages of history … but I do not look to the past, I focus on the present, because I have a great responsibility
Cristi Chivu, Inter coach of Inter
GSP.ro took the statistics in hand and traveled the CV of all the 75 coaches that the group from Giuseppe Meazza was in 117 years and discovered this record for Cristi Chivu on Monday night.

Argentine Helenio Herrera, the most successful coach in Inter / Photo's history: Imago
Until the technician brought from Parma this summer, there were three names that had ticked a first term in Inter with a success at four goals: The great Helenio Herrera, who won two Cups of European Champions (1964-1965 and 1965-1966), Antonio Conte and Simone Inzaghi, the last two champions with Inter and Chivu's predecessors since 2019.
Trapattoni and Meazza, KO at Inter! Like Mircea Lucescu
Among those who started with all the points conquered in the first championship party are other important technicians such as Marcello Lipp, Luciano Spalletti, Claudio Ranieri and Hector Cuper. They all debuted with a result of at least two advantage goals.
However, there are heavy names and famous coaches, who did not work only at Inter and who could not defeat at the start of their Aventure in Serie A: Jose Mourinho, Roberto Mancini (Both Scudetti winners) And Rafa Benitez, the successor of the Portuguese.

Coach Giovanni Trapattoni, along with former German Midders Lothar Matthaus, at Inter 1991 / Photo: Imago
They even left with the left, such Giuseppe Meazza, the only technician who had three mandates in Nerazzurri (1947-1948, 1955-1956 and 1957) and in the honor of which the name of the San Siro-Meazza stadium was given!
I saw some good things and I am happy that I have not received any goals, even though there were some critics on this topic. I saw motivated and energetic players who did not want to get goals. Calm down, I repeat, it's just the first step. There's a lot of work to do!
Cristi Chivu, Inter coach of Inter
And Mircea Lucescu, the only Romanian coach of Inter before Chivu, started with the left in his short term of 111 days at Inter, with a defeat at Parma (0-1). The current Romanian coach resisted only 17 matches, presenting his resignation on March 21, 1999 to President Massimo Moratti.
75The coaches had inter -year in the history of the 117 -year -old club. The first was Virgio Fossati, who drove the Nerazzurra team until 1915
Top 20 beginner coaches at Inter
|
Coach |
Date debut in the championship |
Result |
Matches in the mandate |
|
Cristi Chivu |
25.08.2025 |
5-0 Turin (a) |
1 |
|
Helenio Herrera |
25.09.1960 |
5-1 Atalanta (D) |
343 |
|
Antonio Conte |
26.08.2019 |
4-0 LECCE (A) |
102 |
|
Simone Inzaghi |
21.08.2021 |
4-0 Genoa (a) |
217 |
|
Arpad Weisz |
18.09.1932 |
6-2 Pro Patria (a) |
75 |
|
Virgilio Fossati |
07.11.1909 |
5-2 Ausonia (a) |
112 |
|
Hector Cuper |
26.08.2001 |
4-1 Perugia (a) |
57 |
|
Marcelo Lippi |
29.08.1999 |
3-0 Hellas Verona (A) |
51 |
|
Luciano Spalletti |
20.08.2017 |
3-0 Fiorentina (a) |
90 |
|
Claudio Ranieri |
24.09.2011 |
3-1 Bologna (D) |
35 |

Mircea Lucescu had 4 victories, 4 draws and 9 defeats (goal 26-26) in almost four months at Inter
|
Ottavio Bianchi |
04.09.1994 |
2-0 Turin (D) |
49 |
|
Jose Mourinho |
30.08.2008 |
1-1 Sampdoria (D) |
108 |
|
Roberto Mancini |
11.09.2004 |
2-2 Chievo (D) |
226 |
|
Rafael benitez |
30.08.2010 |
0-0 Bologna (D) |
25 |
|
Roy Hodgson |
22.10.1995 |
0-0 lazio (a) |
82 |
|
Alberto Zaccheroni |
26.10.2003 |
0-0 as Roma (a) |
43 |
|
Giovanni Trapattoni |
14.09.1986 |
0-1 Empoli (D) |
233 |
|
Giuseppe Meazza |
05.01.1947 |
1-2 Venezia (D) |
49 |
|
Eugenio Bersellini |
11.09.1977 |
0-1 bologna (a) |
207 |
|
Mircea Lucescu |
06.01.1999 |
0-1 Parma (D) |
17 |




