Cristi Chivu entered yesterday a select club of only 6 players that managed to gather at least 3 titles for Romanian Football Player of the Year: Hagi (7), Gică Popescu (6), Mutu (4), Dinu and Dobrin (3).
The Romanian national team captain speaks about the year that almost was the last of his playing career, but became the greatest.
- January 6th 2010.
- A day that changed my vision over life. It's the day that I saw everything with different eyes. I'm not exagerating. Believe me! It's the day that changed everything for me. All is behind me now. That is the important part. Look where I am now.
- Yes! It's a real fairytale come true. It's terrible at first, but the outcome...
- You know what Adelina told me that day? "Cristi, my love, what happened to you today is the sacrifice that Inter must pay. It's like in Manole's story. You will win the Champions League". And that's what happened. Just like she said...
- Adelina always knew what to say to you in hard moments. You are very lucky.
- (Laughing) Yes. My girls are very important to me.
5 May, Italian Cup: "All I have won this year was only because I made big sacrifices"
16 May, Serie A: "The hardest thing in this world is to win the Italian League"
22 May, UEFA Champions League: "Mourinho put me on the Champions League list even though I didn't know if I could play football ever again"
21 August, Italian Supercup: "Work and courage will never fail you"
18 December, Club World Cup: "I think now about the incident on the 6th of January that changed my life. I'm a new man!"
- The hard moment passed. The operation too. Did you ever dream to have a year like this? To win five trophies?
- All I have won this year was possible because I mad