Ben Greenhalgh speaks fondly of his time at Inter Milan where he trained alongside Javier Zanetti and Mario Balotelli
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Ben Greenhalgh is hoping to play for
Welling on Saturday at Farnborough after admitting Italian
football wasn't for him.
He won a six-month professional deal with Jose’s
Mourinho’s Inter Milan after appearing on Sky One’s
television show Football’s Next Star.
The winger (pictured) admits that the
experience is one that he would not swap but that, after two years,
he was happy to be renewing his football career in England.
He said. “It was a worthy experience being
over there for almost two years. Playing for Inter Milan and having
that on my CV is just unbelievable.
“I could have made a professional career out
in Italy. But I didn’t want to live out there, it was best to come
back now as I’m still young.
“When I was loaned out for two months I got
used to the language. I got into the Italian lifestyle then but I
realised that I wanted to play football and live in England.
“It was good to work with players like Javier
Zanetti and Mario Balotelli. Looking back on it, it’s just unreal,
but when I was out there I was just training with normal
people.”
As for Mourinho and their relationship once
the cameras stopped rolling, Greenhalgh explained: “He is obviously
a hard man to get in touch with but you saw him every now and
again.
“He would come up to me and shake my hand and
ask how I was getting on. But even that would do for me as he is
the best manager in the world at the moment.”
Thursday, February 16 2012
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