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HERRERA’S GOLDEN AGE AT INTER

  DAVID LEE WHEATLEY charts the amazing success of Helenio Herrera in Italy

Jair celebrates a goal for Inter Milan.

 Hellenio Herrera

It all began with the 1960 arrival in Milan of Barcelona head coach Helenio Herrera. The Franco-Argentine spent only two years at Camp Nou, delivering successive league titles, one domestic cup and the Inter-city Fairs’ Cup through a revolutionary brand of football that radically changed the sport.
Born 1910 in Buenos Aires to Spanish parents, Herrera emigrated from Argentina to Morocco when just four years of age prior to the granti...

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