My heart is still pounding but I wanted to share this emotional story with all of you. I came to Milan at 14 with a suitcase full of dreams, I lived in digs and I was desperate to become a great goalkeeper. After four years in the academy, I began to move around a lot, to gain experience. I played at every level but my heart was always here, at the San Siro, where as a kid I fought to become a ball boy and watch Walter Zenga from up close, especially when he used to get the fans behind him, in the end of the stadium where he too started out.

After various spells all over Italy, I was called back and I almost couldn't believe it as I packed my case for the last time. I was coming home, to Inter. I still remember that day. I was at a Serie B club where I was negotiating a possible deal when I received a phone call and..."Sorry, I have to go, that's where I need to be."

The last seven years have been fantastic, unforgettable. An extraordinary group of players have made footballing history. League titles, Coppa Italias, Super Cups, the Champions League, the Club World Cup.

Thanks go to president Moratti and his wonderful family.

I thank the directors. I'd like to thank all the people who work with and around the squad on a daily basis, those at Appiano Gentile, at the stadium, Inter Campus, Inter Club headquarters and at the Centro Sportivo Giacinto Facchetti.

I thank my team-mates who have always made me feel important, perhaps even overly so. I'd like to thank the coaches, the backroom staff, Professor Combi, the doctors, as well as the masseurs and physios who have...held me together.

I thank Inter fans everywhere. My dream has come true. I won't be the next Walter Zenga but they've always sung my name at the San Siro. I hope I've been able to return that affection, and show that I'm just one of you. The only difference is that I not only love this shirt as a fan, but that I also am lucky enough to play in it. 

Now the first chapter is closed. In the second I'd like to realise a new dream, to become a goalkeeper coach. The best part is that I can do it here, at home. So I'll be able to tell future goalkeepers that playing for Inter is a privilege, something to be appreciated every day, it's something which gives you strength.

Forza Inter forever!"

Paolo Orlandoni

A boy in China once told us he didn't have a favourite player and if he had to choose one Nerazzurri hero above the others it would be Massimo Moratti. "Because the President represents every one of us," he remarked candidly.

Those few words contain a profound sentiment and an awareness of the passion and enthusiasm Massimo Moratti puts into his job of guiding Inter. It's not always an easy job, but the President enjoys a challenge; he never thinks anything is too difficult. And he has overcome his fair share of challenges in 17 years at the helm of the club, winning 16 trophies with the first team and six with the Primavera. Doing so fairly, politely, intelligently and with a sense of humour and proportion that never goes amiss in a world where nearly everything is taken too seriously.

He has not been alone in this Nerazzurri adventure of his; he's been through it with his nearest and dearest – Milly, their five children, their grandson Alessandro. He still remembers watching his father Angelo's Great Inter side, a childhood love: history has repeated itself and not only in terms of the success achieved.

A marvellous, immense story - one we would all like to live. And one that he has lived spontaneously and honestly.

Happy birthday, President Moratti.

Susanna Wermelinger

The first match on the tour - 24 May, 19:00 local time (14:00 CET) - sees Andrea Stramaccioni's side take on a mixed XI, made up of players from the Indonesia Under-23 side and the best players from the Indonesian Premier League. Inter will meet the Indonesia senior national side in their second game on 26 May (kick-off 19:30 local time, 14:30 CET).

Both friendlies will be broadcast on Inter Channel (Sky Italia, channel 232).

"We'll see how things go. You can't do everything today. We have a bit of time to work out what opportunities there are and what we can do."

Can we say that you'll be starting again with Andrea Stramaccioni and Andrea Ranocchia?

"Add a few more and we'll be done... [smiling]. We'll start by confirming those who deserve to stay."

How did Massimo Moratti view Inter's performance against Lazio yesterday?

"Inter played very well. Not just better than Lazio, but truly very well. The first half was fantastic, then came two or three minutes when we let in two goals. Considering the experience we have it's strange to me that this should happen and it changed the game. Then we had even more chances, but that counts for little. It was definitely a game that had to be wrapped up early."

Is there one particular thing or choice, more than anything else, that influenced this season?

"More than one, and all the responsibility is in the choices. And the choices went badly because the ones who were selected didn't perform well. So it was more than a negative situation. Of course this all gives you experience. The fault? To a certain extent it was a combination of things, but it seems to me that the players always put in the effort."

For the future? Lavezzi, Destro...

"I'll let you keep going... [smiling]."

Stramaccioni then commented on Giampaolo Pazzini's exclusion from Italy's Euro 2012 squad: "Prandelli made his best evaluations just as I do myself. I'm sorry for him, because he's one of my players and I feel a bond with him. But we respect the coach's choices."

Regarding his future on the Inter bench, Stramaccioni reiterated that "we'll leave these kinds of comments to the president because that's his territory. Some people have suggested Moratti doesn't want to invest much in the squad for the future? Not as far as I know. In spite of how it might sometimes seem, he has clear ideas on how to return Inter to greatness. Yesterday there was also a lot of bitterness over the defeat, but there's also the desire to start again right away as Inter should, by challenging for important objectives."

Stramaccioni continued: "President Moratti confirmed to the press that I'll still be here, but my timing was a bit different. What I had stated well in advance, and as an Interista it irritated me a bit, was that feeling that Inter had three different plans in mind based on how they would finish in the league. But that was never the case; Inter have a clear plan and obviously the president has the right to make it known when, where and how he chooses. Will I still be the Inter coach? Yesterday I was on the bench with Inter and now we have a tour in Indonesia. But I repeat that it's the president's decision to make."

The season will start earlier than normal, but Stramaccioni is making no excuses: "I tend to go against the current a bit. It would have come down to a week or 10 days of difference between a fifth or sixth-place finish. If I'm not mistaken AC Milan will begin pre-season around 9 or 10 July and play in the Champions League. These are petty differences that don't matter. We're interested in the Europa League. Atletico Madrid started in the first round of preliminaries and won it, and so can we."

Stramaccioni's last comment was on Juventus' Scudetto success: "Juventus had the final word on the pitch this season. And in a calm and sporting manner we send them our congratulations, hoping that Inter will return to those positions as soon as possible."

Andrea Stramaccioni has given the team three days off before they start preparing for the trip to Jakarta: training will resume at the Centro Sportivo Angelo Moratt on the afternoon of Thursday 17 May.

Getting into Europe is nonetheless an achievement because it looked impossible at a certain point of the year. "It shows that the desire was there. Of course turning desire into reality is not always something you're able to achieve. The reality for us now is that we're in Europe and if we do well in the qualifying round we'll be involved in three competitions - a sign that we have no intention of taking it easy."

Cambiasso was coy when asked which mistakes Inter need to learn from: "Talking about them and making them known publicly would be a weakness for the team. We're fully aware of the mistakes we've made. The main thing is that we understand them and accept that it didn't come about by chance: we all know that if our season went the way it did it's because we didn't fulfil our potential - not because we didn't try hard enough but for a series of reasons. We have to close this chapter now, recharge our batteries and remember that Inter can afford to have a bad year, but not more than one."

The Argentine ended with the positives to be taken from this season: "Our desire to react and the fact that we never hid away - we always stood up to adversity."

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His strike against Lazio means Milito equalled his personal record of 24 league goals, achieved with Genoa. "But I'd happily have swapped them all to have been challenging for the prizes we're used to at Inter..." the Prince sighed.

He continued: "We're looking forward. We're disappointed because we really wanted it, but we have to look forward. Our targets for next year? To be in the mix right up till the end and playing for the targets we're accustomed to. We'll get off to a good start next term and at least we ended this season well, apart from tonight's defeat. We must represent Inter as well as we can. We'll try to do well in Serie A and also in the Europa League."

What advice does the captain have for Andrea Stramaccioni? "I don't think I need to give him any advice. He knows he has to work very hard with all of us so that we can get back to challenging at the top. A club like Inter deserves to be higher than this and we'll all work together to make that happen."

Zanetti's biggest regret this year was "not being more consistent. We played well at times but were found wanting in too many games. Our final league position reflects that. The desire was there but all too often we failed to achieve what we were capable of."

The captain also had a special thought for Paolo Orlandoni, who announced his retirement before Lazio v Inter: "I want to thank him because he joined Inter a long time before me. He's a great man and a top professional. I know we're going to miss him."