I think player to get LGI status you need to be at Inter at least 4 seasons and have made a big impact to club and have been crucial part of the team. Most of all show some affection to club. The terms how you leave and speak about the club and fans also has big say if player should get LGI status.
Player like Zanetti, Samuel, Materazzi, Deki, Cambiasso, Recoba… no brainers… played long, great players, a face of the team, loves Inter…
Player like Ronado and Vieri should also be LGI! They had big impact the whole team identity and made/kept Inter a global brand and made Inter a bigger club. They also have openly admid that they still follow/support Inter, still after things did not go so well in the end and have special feelings to Inter and for Nerrazurri fans!
Vieri:
"It's a real shame the way things ended there," he told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "I love Inter and I gave everything for them, killing myself every day for the Nerazzurri colours. I was the first to arrive for training and the last to leave. I never held back and sometimes I played when I could hardly stay on my feet."
Let's just say that when Adriano arrived, I didn't hear from the president so much," Vieri explained. "My relationship with Moratti had been special and strong -- extremely strong. We would call each other many times a day, even at three in the morning. He made me feel part of the family.
"I was happy, as a footballer and as a person, and I gave all the energy I had for the club. You can quite understand how incredibly disappointed I was to learn that he'd been tapping my phone and listening to my calls. Come on, that's the kind of thing the mafia does."
It led to a parting of ways which Vieri regrets to this day above all for the way it came about.
"All he had to do was be direct with me and I would not have had any problems leaving on good terms," Vieri said. "It was in the air that they wanted a revolution and after six years, maybe it was only normal that they wanted to try different players, but why couldn't we have resolved it between us? Why did he look to finish things that way?
"One day I said to him: 'President, don't worry, if I have to leave you only have to say, there aren't any problems.' And he said: 'No, no, Inter is all about me and you and I want you by my side.' So I insisted, to be absolutely sure: 'I mean it, president, if there are problems...' and he replied clearly: 'It's all good.' It was anything but good when I discovered he'd tapped my phone."
Despite not being told personally by Moratti that his contract was being terminated, and not having heard from him since, Vieri still respects the former Inter president and thanks him for giving him six glorious years with Inter.
I'd shake his hand and give him a hug," he said when asked what he would do if he met Moratti again. "I will always be grateful to him for spending so much money to sign me from Lazio and allowing me to live six wonderful years, overwhelmed almost entirely by the love of the Nerazzurri fans.
"I even think they loved me too much, but I liked being their idol. I felt the pressure, but it delighted me to see how proud they were of me. I would come onto the field to warm up and the stadium would be shaking and those are feelings that are worth more than any trophies.
I could never hate Inter -- make that clear to everybody. It's impossible because they were my best years. I did everything for that club, scoring almost a goal a game, suffering, celebrating and experiencing emotions which I'd never felt anywhere else.
They were unique emotions because they were shared with the Inter fans. I still get photos of me with Ronaldo on Twitter -- what times they were! It's one of my biggest regrets, not having been able to play more with such a phenomenon. We were the best in the business, and what expectations there were of us.
"I can remember an Inter-Verona and we arrived at the stadium an hour and a half before kick-off and there were already 85,000 fans screaming our names. It sent shivers down your spine. I am proud of one thing and that is that I really gave all of my energy for those people."
Come on… thats is someone who still cares alot about Inter and was one of the best players at his position and peaked at Inter…
Ronaldo:
Ronaldo Nazario is widely considered among the best football players of all time. The two-time Balon d’Or winner, who played for Inter between 1997-2002, won the UEFA Cup title with the Nerazzurri in 1998.
In a new interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport, the legendary striker has spoken about Inter’s Serie A triumph udder Antonio Conte.
“I’m an Inter fan, I maintain a special relationship with Inter and I always want them to win.” the 44-year-old said.
“The last championship was wonderful, ‘we’ interrupted Juventus’ winning streak, it will be remembered for a long time.”
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Inter are in my heart and they will be forever,” Ronaldo told Sky Sport Italia.
“Those were five beautiful years of my life, in a city that I learned to love, with people that always loved me.
“I have a love for Milan and for Inter that I believe it will remain forever.
“I have to say that Massimo Moratti is a strong inspiration for me, an inspiration because he taught me so much.”
The 42-year-old admits there are quite a few things he would do differently now, while discussing the moment he asked Moratti to pick between himself and former manager Hector Cuper.
Ronaldo and Cuper had a bitter falling out at Inter after the Brazilian accused the coach of forcing him to play when he was unfit and left him out altogether when he was ready.
The ex-striker previously said that his poor relationship with Cuper was the reason behind his decision to leave Inter in 2002 for Real Madrid.
“I would do a few things differently from my time at Inter, I wouldn’t put President Moratti in a difficult position to decide my future,” admits Ronaldo.
“That moment in which I asked him to sack Cuper or I would leave. Moratti decided to keep Cuper.
“So I wouldn’t do that again, I would rather try to get my point across in another way in that situation.”
Come on… this man has said so many times he still supports Inter and Nerrazurri is something special to him! I know he did not break records at Inter but he made Inter brand eaven bigger and cause of him we now have shitloads of more fans and we are a bigger team just cause he played at Inter, me being one of them!
There are few players who has had this big impact to Inter fans and massive impact the whole club brand and count Ronaldo and Vieri one of those!
Players like Perisic, Cassano, Baggio, Zlatan, Cannavaro, Eriksen, Icardi… eaven if they have played at Inter and are great players, won scudetto or supports Inter don’t get you LGI status… they are missing something…affection/connection to club or its supportes or you openly support other club or selebrate other teams to win against you, or just havent been long enought to really be Inter legend?
I would also ad new players to LGI after they have ended their careers and then evaluate their impact to the club/brand and fans?
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