Inter head coach Cristian Chivu has opened up about his return to Verona, the place he as soon as suffered a career-threatening head harm, and has spoken in regards to the return of Josep Martinez to the matchday squad, simply 4 days after he was concerned in a automobile accident that resulted within the dying of an 81-year-old man close to the membership’s coaching floor.
Chivu mentioned these matters, in addition to his facet’s latest outcomes and his staff choice, forward of the Serie A match between Verona and Inter on the Bentegodi on Sunday afternoon.
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Chivu: ‘I’ve misplaced and gained so much in Verona’
MILAN, ITALY – OCTOBER 29: FC Internazionale coach Cristian Chivu appears to be like on in the course of the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and ACF Fiorentina at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on October 29, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Marco Luzzani/Getty Photographs)
Inter might convey themselves inside a degree of the lead of the Serie A desk with a victory over Verona on Sunday after the 3-0 victory over Fiorentina earlier this week.
Regardless of the Fiorentina win, Chivu believes that Inter nonetheless have loads of room to enhance.
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“The response wasn’t taken as a right. Now we have to maintain doing what we have now been doing, and add a little bit extra. It’s in our DNA to do higher,” he earlier than kick-off towards Verona.
Chivu has loads of belief in Ange-Yoan Bonny and Petar Sucic, who’re once more on Sunday.
“They’re simply pretty much as good as Luis Henrique, Diouf, Pio Esposito, even when the Frenchman hasn’t had a lot of an opportunity however his time will come,” Chivu stated. “I’ve a bunch of incredible gamers, who imagine on this staff and in our dream.”
Verona is a significant metropolis for Chivu, who as soon as fractured his cranium after a stunning conflict of heads with Chievo striker Sergio Pellissier. Chivu required surgical procedure after elements of his cranium had caved in, and as soon as he returned to enjoying, all the time wore a protecting helmet for the remainder of his profession.
MILAN, ITALY – MARCH 20: Cristian Chivu of Inter Milan in motion in the course of the Serie A match between FC Internazionale Milano and Lecce at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on March 20, 2011 in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Photographs)
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“Loads of time has handed. It was a rebirth for me right here. I misplaced, but in addition gained so much that day. I realised that a very powerful issues in life should not profitable or shedding, however quite, to understand a profession that doesn’t final for lengthy.
“I’m comfortable, I got here again right here with Parma final yr, however I don’t take into consideration what occurred to me, however in regards to the metropolis, which gave a lot to me. They saved my life in that hospital and I nonetheless thank them in any case these years. Verona is a incredible place.”
And, on Josep Martinez, who’s within the matchday squad regardless of being concerned in a traumatic incident earlier this week, Chivu stated:“We’re considering of him and serving to him as a membership, however we’re additionally occupied with the household of the deceased.
“We’ve acquired to take care of him and take into consideration the difficulties he may have for the remainder of his life. We are going to stand shut by him, the togetherness of the group can be essential.”