Last season, Inter finally won the Serie A championship trophy after many years under the leadership of Conte, after Inter won the championship, the team executives began to "open source and throttle" for this reason was opposed by the champion coach Conte, and finally the two sides parted ways, the original outside world predicted, while losing Lukaku and Conte's two key gentlemen Inter will be devastated, but things are unexpected, juve, who originally had the most powerful threat to the Inter championship throne, fell out of the Champions League zone, and Napoli, which won 9 consecutive games in the opening 9 games, was also stepped on by Inter. Inter are now leading the serie A table with 53 points. As long as this momentum is followed, winning the championship should be no problem, but just as Inter is preparing for the New Year, there have been some not-so-harmonious voices in the team recently. A Serbian player named Alexander Korarov is proposing to the team's top brass about retiring in the near future.
Time has passed, the hero is white-headed, and retirement may be the best ending
Who is Kolarov? Born in 1985, Kolarov won the Serbian Footballer of the Year in 2011 and has played in two World Cups in South Africa and Russia as the captain of the national team. At the club level, After debuting in the Serbian domestic league, Kolarov played for Lazio, Manchester United, Roma, and finally joined Inter Milan in 2020, and then helped Inter win the Serie A title trophy last season.
Looking at the entire European football scene, Although Kolarov is not a top-ranking player, he is a well-known football superstar in Serbia. Now as he grows older, his position in the Inter dressing room is gradually marginalized. As of the winter window this season, Kolarov has only helped Inter play 48 minutes. Compared with the less than 700 minutes played last season, The number of minutes played by Kolarov this season will be further reduced, and retirement may be the best option for Kolarov due to his advanced age and years of injuries accumulated in football.
Retirement does not fade, and Korarov is still an important asset for Inter
When the news of Kolarov's imminent retirement came, many fans who knew him read it, believing that Kolarov was most likely a strategy of retreating, and he was expressing his dissatisfaction to the Inter coaching team and management in this special way. He hopes to get more chances to play in the final moments of his career. However, from the perspective of the inter club's top brass, Kolarov's request seems to be somewhat "extravagant".
However, Inter is more human than a giant like Real Madrid, after all, it is said that Inter has basically finalized, as long as Kolarov can retire at Inter, they will directly invite Kolarov to enter the management of the team and continue the cooperation between the two sides in another way. In good conscience, if this were the case, Korarov would be satisfied.
What is Inter's intention to leave Kolarov, who is not online?
Compared with most players, after bidding farewell to the stadium, they can only return home from unemployment, and the cooperation between Kolarov and Inter has come to an end in a relatively satisfactory way. Inter Milan history, the invitation of retired players to join the team management, there is no lack of precedent, after Mikhailovic hung up his boots to retire, then Inter coach Mancini, invited him into his coaching staff, and Mikhailov also happens to be Korarov's former football idol, can embark on the same career path as his idol, for Kolarov, it is impossible to ask.
Mikhailovic was able to enter the Inter coaching staff, with his brilliant record of kicking out one foot at a time, and Kolarov was able to make inter executives demote him to the management, it is because of his past as a professional player, in the stadium and on and off the field to show the spirit of hard work, and good professionalism, Inter hope to be able to let Kolarov into the management, to achieve the purpose of improving the soft power of the Inter dressing room, I am afraid that there is a zhang gongzi meaning behind this.
From Belgrade to Milan, Kolarov also had a highlight moment
From Belgrade to Milan City, Kolarov spent 18 years as a professional player, the reason why Kolarov was able to enter the Serie A from the Serbian domestic league was not only because of himself as a defender, but also to score 4 goals throughout the season, but to say that Kolarov showed a cloud-like support and defense ability in the European Youth Championship, which made countless scouts feel excited. However, at the beginning, the outside world was still seriously underestimated for Korarov's value and ability.
Lazio spent only 800,000 euros to pocket Kolarov, Lazio in this deal can be said to have made a lot of money, soon Kolarov gave the team a multiplier return, in three years, Kolarov built an iron fence behind Lazio, he completed a total of 63 steals and 71 interceptions, in addition to 150 key passes, of course, as a backcourt with a knife defender attribute, Kolarov also contributed 5 goals.
Seeing that Kolarov was mixed up in Lazio, Real Madrid threw an olive branch to Korarov, offering 15 million euros in the hope of bringing in Kolarov. However, he was flatly rejected by lazio's boss, who said something very interesting: "15 million euros? For the price you can't even buy Korarov's sneakers! The confident Real Madrid executives touched their noses and the deal finally collapsed.
Mrs. Corallo, though no longer young, is still valuable
Kolarov, who was originally idolized by Mikhailovic, also played with his idol for Roma, and unlike many famous superstars, Mikhailov was happy to help the rookies, especially seeing Kolarov as a successor who could take over his mantle, when Kolarov had just joined the team, Mikhailovic clearly told the latter, "No matter what help you need, you can find him!" ”
Now Kolarov has also inherited the precious qualities of his idol, although he can not continue to help the team on the green field, but he still has a strong appeal and leadership in the Inter locker room, more importantly, for the newcomers, Kolarov is their leader, Inter senior management needs the future Kolarov can exist as a glue between the team management and the dressing room.
The players who came out of the smoke of war eventually became well-known men
As a Serbian player, Kolarov's childhood experienced a tragic war, in a well-off family, he should have had a worry-free year, but the war made Korarov want to play football a luxury, Kolarov compared to most professional players in a more difficult situation. However, all the difficulties did not make this Balkan tough guy yield, when entering Rome, in fact, Kolarov is already in the middle and late stages of his career, with Roma's position in European football, they could have chosen better players, and the Roma boss insisted on bringing in Kolarov, who has no longer peaked, and even the Original Rome boss Palota also openly said to all the team management: Players like Korarov, I want him 22 now! Have to admit, the boss is the boss, the words spoken, really have a level!
Like Roma, Inter, who was coached by Conte, when introducing Kolarov, also held the same mentality as the Roma executives, for some teams, the technical and tactical level and competitive status of the players do not seem to be the only criterion for measuring whether the players are excellent, and people like Kolarov will never lack a market.
Kolarov began to play in professional football at the age of 19, and now he is 37 years old and nearly middle-aged, on the one hand, while lamenting the passage of time, on the other hand, Korarov's career is also very memorable. Throughout Kolarov's career, he always seems to be deliberately following in the footsteps of his idol Mikhailovich, and eventually he became him.