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Nostradamus
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The club was not founded on internationalism.
This false origin myth has to be busted at some point because without the original context we are getting lost in translation. I understand for some it's quite nice to have this globalist origin myth, but we need to understand what really happened here.
Just an fyi, draw a simple comparison of how many foreigners Inter signed with the ones Milan signed from 1908 to 1920 and you'll be surprised.
The 'brothers of the world' thing was reflected on some Swiss player-officers we had at the club that were demoted due to Milan wanting the club to be run by Italians only, not because they didn't want foreign players. The issue about foreign players was their numbers, not their lackof. And it was not Milan's idea, but the Federation's. And Milan initially had a negative take on it and refused to acknowledge the ruling.
A sports club at the time was a social club first. The inclusiveness was relating to membership, not the players that featured. Football wasn't big enough to attract that kind of disputes back then. The clubs were amateur and the inclusion was regarding the inclusion some Swiss and German dudes living in Milano at the time in amateur sport events and using the Inter facilities.
Milan did not participate the year of the foreigners limitation ruling and that's when we were born. Their management wanted to reconcile with the federation and some guys protested. Inter was born, and the next season the FIGC abandoned its stance anyway. So that small window of Italian incompetence helped created Inter
Just another fyi, Milan had an English chairman at the time who remained there and two foreign players still stayed there.
You know how many ex Milan players joined the new found Internazionale? Just 3 Swiss guys that weren't even important players and the new limitation would see them not be part of the team at all. They were founding members of Inter and Inter was not just a club made up of its players. One of them for example was the club's treasurer or something
Milan reconciled and used the argument that the club had to promote football in the Italian society (ie play more Italians). They also shortly abandoned that stance when they saw us win the Scudetto and then signed everyone from everywhere.
Long story short, there's nothing to suggest that Inter was founded as some sort of globalist outpost.
This false origin myth has to be busted at some point because without the original context we are getting lost in translation. I understand for some it's quite nice to have this globalist origin myth, but we need to understand what really happened here.
Just an fyi, draw a simple comparison of how many foreigners Inter signed with the ones Milan signed from 1908 to 1920 and you'll be surprised.
The 'brothers of the world' thing was reflected on some Swiss player-officers we had at the club that were demoted due to Milan wanting the club to be run by Italians only, not because they didn't want foreign players. The issue about foreign players was their numbers, not their lackof. And it was not Milan's idea, but the Federation's. And Milan initially had a negative take on it and refused to acknowledge the ruling.
A sports club at the time was a social club first. The inclusiveness was relating to membership, not the players that featured. Football wasn't big enough to attract that kind of disputes back then. The clubs were amateur and the inclusion was regarding the inclusion some Swiss and German dudes living in Milano at the time in amateur sport events and using the Inter facilities.
Milan did not participate the year of the foreigners limitation ruling and that's when we were born. Their management wanted to reconcile with the federation and some guys protested. Inter was born, and the next season the FIGC abandoned its stance anyway. So that small window of Italian incompetence helped created Inter
Just another fyi, Milan had an English chairman at the time who remained there and two foreign players still stayed there.
You know how many ex Milan players joined the new found Internazionale? Just 3 Swiss guys that weren't even important players and the new limitation would see them not be part of the team at all. They were founding members of Inter and Inter was not just a club made up of its players. One of them for example was the club's treasurer or something
Milan reconciled and used the argument that the club had to promote football in the Italian society (ie play more Italians). They also shortly abandoned that stance when they saw us win the Scudetto and then signed everyone from everywhere.
Long story short, there's nothing to suggest that Inter was founded as some sort of globalist outpost.