Podolski the latest chapter in Inter’s long history of Germans

Lukas Podolski wants to help Inter Milan get back to their position as one of the top clubs in European football.

When Lukas Podolski was officially presented as an Inter player on Thursday, he said an important reason he decided to join the Nerazzurri was that he had "positive meetings with Piero Ausilio and Roberto Mancini," the director of sport and the coach, respectively.

But Podolski was also aware of the fact that Inter have a long and occasionally very successful history of German players. When he was a kid, growing up in Bergheim near Cologne, West Germany won the 1990 World Cup in Italy largely…
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