Inter Lifts Copa Sudamericana

By: Bruno Romani | December 3rd, 2008

She was the girl ignored by the Brazilians. “She’s weird. She’s not attractive. She’s boring”, thought all Brazilian clubs. But Inter decided to take this girl to dance when it noticed that its main rival Gremio could’ve started flirting with her. Still a bit embarrassed as the the two draws against U. Catolica suggest, Inter noticed this girl had something special. The involvement started there. But Inter went really crazy when it kissed it with the wild taste of kicking Boca Junior’s ass. Inter was in love with Copa Sulamericana (Sudamericana, if you prefer). By the matches against Chivas, Inter was showing her to everyone and being gentleman. Two massacres against Chivas. But the rivals insisted that Inter was taking home an ugly chick. With the the title against Estudiantes and all the love that Copa Sulamericana can give back, all the Brazilian clubs must be wondering how come they’ve never noticed that cute girl in the corner.

The match in Porto Alegre took place in the way a South American title has to be. With bravery, with heart, with drama. Estudiantes made everything very complicated. They scored. They had a goal disallowed in a mistake of the linesman. They took the game to the extra-time. The first-half had refined football from the first to the last minute, despite the few chances.

In the second-half, Inter was falling due to its excessive confidence that the title had been decided last week. The match was doomed to the extra-time. As usual, the extra-time was lazy. The players were tired, but Inter went for the last swat drops. D’Alessandro, who conducted the midfield once more, took the corner. Danny Morais headed the ball to the post. Gustavo Nery in the rebound shot it and the keeper saved again. But the final rebound ended with Nilmar, who pushed it to the back of the net. South America is red again.

Inter reaches the glory of being the second club (the first one is Boca) of having a Copa Libertadores, a Sulamericana, a Recopa and a Club World Cup. Even sweeter for the colorados is that Inter also passed Gremio in the number of titles: 46 to 45. And for a title that many in Brazil disregard, a campaign which included matches against Gremio (twice Libertadores champion and main rival), Universidad Catolica (Libertadores runner-up), Boca, Chivas (the Mexican club that has been doing well in South America) and Estudiantes (3 times Libertadores champion) must be respected.

Brazil now has a taste of Copa Sulamericana. A lesson to other clubs in two ways: any international cup is valuable and investing in good players and structure will always turn into titles. Congratulations Inter!

ps: congrats to my dad who is a Inter fanatic!

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