Former Inter Milan Striker Christian Vieri: “The Team I Played In Could Have Won Everything, I Told Ronaldo I Joined To Play Alongside Him” | OneFootball

Former Inter Milan striker Christian Vieri reminisced on his time at the club and felt that the squad he played in was good enough to win every trophy.

In an interview with UK newspaper The Guardian, and via FCInterNews.it, Vieri recalled his stint with the Nerazzurri after joining in a world record €30 million transfer from Lazio in 1999.

“At Inter, we were an ­amazing team,” former Atletico Madrid and Juventus striker Vieri declared.

“When I arrived I saw Ronaldo and said: ‘I came here to play with you!’ He just started laughing. We had ­phenomenal ­players. We could have won ­everything.

“But of all those ­players that I played up front with Ronaldo, Adriano, [Hernan] Crespo, [Alvaro] Recoba, Roberto Baggio, it was fucking awesome.”

Vieri’s best spell of his career came at Inter, with the now-51-year-old netting 123 goals in 190 appearances until 2005, and winning the Coppa Italia in his final season at the club before joining AC Milan.

However, the former Italy international recalled a fight he had with his coach at Juventus, Marcello Lippi.

“I was on the bench and Alen Boksic was injured, so I played about 10 minutes in the first half. Then Lippi says something to me. I say: ‘But I only played five minutes, what do you want from me?’. I was nervous because I wasn’t playing, so I answered back to him.

“He came at me. We argued, then he took me off the pitch. Not really a physical fight, because another player stopped us. These things happen though, that means you care.”

Vieri earned 49 caps for the Italian national team between 1997 and 2005, scoring 23 goals and representing the Azzurri at two World Cups and the 2004 European Championship.