1992–93 F.C. Internazionale Milano season
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F.C. Internazionale Milano
F.C. Internazionale Milano
Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...

returned to the top echeleon of the domestic
Serie A
Serie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...

 scene, finishing second to city rivals A.C. Milan
A.C. Milan
Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...

 in the championship. The relatively narrow four-points margin between the two sides, was explained by Milan drawing several matches when it had already clinched the title, so the end result was a lot closer than it was during the course of the season.

Following the indifferent 1991-92 season, Inter sold all of its three German internationals Andreas Brehme
Andreas Brehme
Andreas "Andy" Brehme is a German football coach and former football defender. He is best known for scoring the winning goal for Germany in the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final against Argentina on a 85th minute penalty kick....

, Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Matthäus
Lothar Herbert Matthäus , is a German football manager and former player.In 1990, he was named European Footballer of the Year and World Soccer Player of the Year after captaining West Germany to victory in the 1990 World Cup...

 and Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former player who is currently the coach of the United States Men's National Team. As a player, Klinsmann played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the German one that...

 back to Bundesliga. That enabled Inter to purchase several foreign players, and especially playmaker Igor Shalimov
Igor Shalimov
Igor Mihailovich Shalimov , is a retired football midfielder.Shalimov started his playing career in Spartak Moscow. After a few successful seasons with Spartak Moscow he transferred to Foggia. He impressed enough to garner the attention and eventual transfer to Internazionale...

 and topscorer Rubén Sosa proved vital in Inter's resurgence. Strikers Darko Pančev
Darko Pancev
Darko Pančev is a retired Yugoslav and Macedonian footballer, and winner of the Golden Boot award in 1991.-Club career:Pančev was the highest scorer in top-division European football in the 1990–91 season with 34 goals, and should have won the European Golden Boot award...

 and Salvatore Schillaci
Salvatore Schillaci
Salvatore Schillaci , commonly referred to by his nickname Totò is a former Italian football player. During his career, he played for Messina , Juventus , Internazionale and Júbilo Iwata...

 struggled to live up to expectations, which made Sosa's 20 league goals vital.

Defenders

Giuseppe Bergomi
Giuseppe Bergomi
Giuseppe Bergomi is a retired Italian footballer who spent his entire career at Internazionale, being equally at ease as a central or right defender....

 Sergio Battistini
Sergio Battistini
Sergio Battistini is a retired Italian footballer who played for AC Milan, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Brescia and Spezia. He also competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics....

 Riccardo Ferri
Riccardo Ferri
Riccardo Ferri is an Italian former footballer, centre-back.-Club career:Ferri was born in Crema, and debuted in Serie A with Internazionale in October 1981. Soon a titular defender, he became a mainstay of the team, playing for Internazionale for a total of 13 seasons.He won the Scudetto in...

 Paolo Tramezzani
Paolo Tramezzani
Paolo Tramezzani is an Italian born footballer.Tramezzani was born at Castelnovo ne' Monti, in Emilia.He started his career at Italian team Prato, and also played for Cosenza, Lucchese, Inter Milan, Venezia, Cesena and Piacenza before transferring to Tottenham Hotspur in the summer of 1998,...

 Luigi De Agostini
Luigi De Agostini
Luigi de Agostini is an Italian former football defender, who represented the Italian national football team at Euro 1988 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup....

 Antonio Paganin
Antonio Paganin
Antonio Paganin is a retired Italian professional football player.His brother Massimo Paganin was also a football player.-Honours:* 1990–91 UEFA Cup and 1993–94 UEFA Cup winner.* Coppa Italia winner: 1984-85, 1987-88....

 Stefano Rossini
Stefano Rossini
Stefano Rossini is an Italian footballer, who has played for numerous clubs throughout his career.-Parma & Inter:...

 Mirko Taccola
Mirko Taccola
Mirko Taccola is an Italian footballer. He plays as a Defender. He is currently playing for Sapri.-External links:...

 Marcello Montanari
Marcello Montanari
Marcello Montanari is a retired Italian professional football player and coach. He is currently an assistant manager with A.C. Reggiana 1919.-External links:*...


Midfielders

Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer is a retired German football player and coach who is now working as technical director of the DFB . He played as a midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper....

 Angelo Orlando
Angelo Orlando
Angelo Orlando is an Italian professional football coach and a former player. He is currently an assistant coach Caracas Sports Club in Venezuela along with former player Hugo Savarese-External links:*...

 Alessandro Bianchi
Alessandro Bianchi (footballer)
Alessandro Bianchi is a retired Italian professional football player.-Honours:* Serie A champion: 1988/89.* Supercoppa Italiana winner: 1989.* UEFA Cup winner: 1990/91, 1993/94.-External links:*...

 Nicola Berti
Nicola Berti
Nicola Berti is an Italian former footballer whose career spanned three decades.- Biography :In his early years, as a seventeen year old, his debut season was with Parma including the Serie C1 1983–84....

 Antonio Manicone
Antonio Manicone
Antonio Manicone is an Italian professional football coach and a former player. He is currently an assistant coach with Internazionale U-20 team.-External links:*...

 Davide Fontolan
Davide Fontolan
Davide Fontolan is an Italian former football midfielder.-Career:Fontolan started his playing career with Serie C side Legnano, and moved to Parma in 1986 after four seasons with the lilla. In 1987 he played for Udinese, and from 1988 to 1990 he was part of the Genoa squad...

 Igor Shalimov
Igor Shalimov
Igor Mihailovich Shalimov , is a retired football midfielder.Shalimov started his playing career in Spartak Moscow. After a few successful seasons with Spartak Moscow he transferred to Foggia. He impressed enough to garner the attention and eventual transfer to Internazionale...

 Stefano Desideri
Stefano Desideri
Stefano Desideri is an Italian professional football coach and a former player.He played for Italy at the 1988 Summer Olympics.-External links:*...


Matches

Top Scorers

Rubén Sosa 20 Igor Shalimov
Igor Shalimov
Igor Mihailovich Shalimov , is a retired football midfielder.Shalimov started his playing career in Spartak Moscow. After a few successful seasons with Spartak Moscow he transferred to Foggia. He impressed enough to garner the attention and eventual transfer to Internazionale...

 9 Salvatore Schillaci
Salvatore Schillaci
Salvatore Schillaci , commonly referred to by his nickname Totò is a former Italian football player. During his career, he played for Messina , Juventus , Internazionale and Júbilo Iwata...

 6 Sergio Battistini
Sergio Battistini
Sergio Battistini is a retired Italian footballer who played for AC Milan, Fiorentina, Inter Milan, Brescia and Spezia. He also competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics....

 5 Nicola Berti
Nicola Berti
Nicola Berti is an Italian former footballer whose career spanned three decades.- Biography :In his early years, as a seventeen year old, his debut season was with Parma including the Serie C1 1983–84....

 4 Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer is a retired German football player and coach who is now working as technical director of the DFB . He played as a midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper....

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Sources

| RSSSF - Italy 1992/93
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