Chivu: “Lautaro is something special” — Inter coach reflects on responsibility, expectations, and the title push

Cristian Chivu has never hidden what Inter means to him — but speaking in a pitch-side interview with B/R Football, the Inter coach put it into simple, direct terms: returning to the club as a coach brings pride, but also pressure.

“As a player and as a coach now. It’s a lot of responsibility,” Chivu said, underlining the scale of the shirt and what it represents. “Knowing what this club means in the history, knowing what it means for the supporters.”

Asked how Inter managed to edge a close title race, Chivu pointed to the context around the squad’s season and the mindset required to keep performing.

“The expectations were high,” he explained, before noting the limited downtime. “We didn’t have time to do a proper preparation for the Club World Cup. We had only three weeks of holiday.”

For Chivu, the difference came from a collective commitment — individuals taking ownership, embracing ambition, and doing the daily work that makes decisive moments feel less chaotic.

“A lot of human persons did their part… the accountability… the hard work,” he said. “Step by step we built something that allowed us to celebrate at the end of the season.”

The Lautaro section that stood out

The clearest spark in the interview came when the conversation moved to Lautaro Martínez — not just as captain, but as a name already placed among Inter’s historic forwards.

“In the history of this club always had great strikers… they write the history of this club,” Chivu said, before delivering the line Inter fans will want to clip:
“Lautaro is something special because he’s still playing for us and he still can raise the numbers.”

Chivu then put a hard number on it:

“If I watch the top scorers in the history of Inter, he’s number three.”

And the point wasn’t nostalgia — it was projection. Lautaro is still in the middle of it, still adding chapters.

“He’s still here… and I think he’s gonna write more pages in the history of this club.”

Cristian Chivu reflects on winning the double with @Inter in his first season as manager 🧠 pic.twitter.com/YhKg5Bfswt

— B/R Football (@brfootball) May 26, 2026

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