Inter rediscovers Chivu

  It’s okay to sacrifice, butif the results are poorwhy not change? Over the past four yearsCristianChivu has askedhimself this severaltimes, but to play for Inter he has alwaysaccepted the role as a left-back. "Everybodyknows, the left-back is not mynatural role, I am a centraldefender or centralmidfielder. Just askMaicon to be a midfielder or Samuel to playquarterback ... "he saidwithirony in a recentinterview. Hard to blamehim, because from the midfield the results are alwaysthere. And the good performance in Lillecannot be defined as a coincidence.

It is from the central role that Chivu has becomeone of the strongestdefenders of Europe. BeforeatAjax, under RonaldKoeman, then Rome, where he alsoplayednext to Samuel, now his partner at Inter. With the Argentine in the box and Ranocchia on the road to recovery, on SundayagainstChievo Ranieri is planning to put himagain in the middle of the defensenext to Lucio. It’s his natural habitat, whereChivuknows that he can give more.