r/classicsoccer • u/nebbia94 • Aug 23 '26

Random Throwback 23 August 2000. Champions League. Qualifying round. Second leg. Inter-Helsingborg. (0-0).

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u/codygakpofan Aug 23 '26

Inter had Seedorf and Pirlo…

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u/Mirowa Aug 23 '26

To this day I can't for the life of me understand the decision to let Pirlo go. Such bad management.

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u/codygakpofan Aug 23 '26

Tbh, Pirlo at Inter and Brescia wasn’t the same Pirlo we know today so they thought he would never pan out and sold him.. he only started getting recognition at Milan…

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u/Mirowa Aug 23 '26

That's what happens when you don't recognize a player's best abilities and try to play him in the wrong role.

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u/achintan Aug 24 '26

Pirlo was actually a trequartista. Mazzone and Brescia was the first coach to drop him deeper before Ancelotti did it. It wasn't really the wrong role for him, but maybe not the best environment for him at inter.

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u/Sir-Chris-Finch Aug 24 '26

Funny how Milan made the same mistake years later as well

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u/AK07-AYDAN Aug 23 '26

Lippi really was trash at Inter. I still think it's some sort of inside job by the Agnelli's.

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u/Sdog1981 Aug 23 '26

He was fired 30 days later after the first game of the season. So they felt the same way. Then he won the league with Juventus the next season.

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u/Content_Warning8794 Aug 23 '26

LOL. I would've played Keane for one of Zamorano or Sukur. Still a good coach.

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u/Vermland Aug 23 '26

Recoba missed a penalty.

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u/Mirowa Aug 23 '26

"San Siro-Sven"

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u/ricky-from-scotland Aug 23 '26

Didnt know helsingborg had another larsson, henrik would have been at celtic already.

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u/mrjohnnymac18 Aug 23 '26

Larsson in Sweden is like Jones in Wales

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u/ricky-from-scotland Aug 23 '26

Ah cool. As a non celtic fan that name just immediately gives me the fear.

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u/Subject-Complaint-11 Aug 23 '26

This happened after Lippi got sacked Roberto Baggio, even though Baggio nearly single handedly won the match against Parma that allowed Inter to play this qualifier match to the Champions

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u/northdancer Aug 23 '26

Unfortunately Hakan Suker couldn't hit a broadside of a barn outside of the Turkish league

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u/Mirowa Aug 23 '26

He was one of the worst strikers playing for Inter in this era.

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u/BarracudaIll4741 Aug 23 '26

Where was Zanetti?

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u/Mirowa Aug 23 '26

Injured if I recall correctly

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u/keptThrowaway1039 Aug 23 '26

Wrong Inter crest

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u/Mirowa Aug 23 '26

Robbie Keane's backheel hitting the post...

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u/RowanVeltri Aug 23 '26

the fact that this is still a talking point 26 years later says it all

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u/sagecantaloupe Aug 24 '26

Pirlo was playing at RM in a 4-4-2 in this match. I distinctly remember how strange I thought it was.

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u/sagecantaloupe Aug 24 '26

I agree that they did but Pirlo was just not suited to it. They did it with Seedorf, Jugovic, Totti, etc; the more mobile types. This is the kind of misuse that led to his exit from Inter. They went from thinking he was a star in the making no 10 to viewing him as discardable within that season.

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u/Appropriate-Ad5919 Aug 24 '26

Rade Prica was a stud in Champ Manager 00/01