That’s the football lived by Inter Club Sydney, which this year held its annual dinner at Dom Panino—a simple, flexible venue well suited to the community spirit that binds the group together.
Around forty people, families included, filled the restaurant—a turnout that says more than any slogan ever could: fandom brings people together, bridges generations, closes distances and turns an ordinary evening into a small ritual of identity.
One of the most moving moments came when club president Alessandro Maremonti thanked two longtime members, Faye and Giuseppe Marguglio.
Registered with the Inter Club Sydney for a decade—from Melbourne—they boarded a flight just to attend the dinner in a gesture that carries the weight of genuine devotion to the club. As Maremonti noted, it’s “worth its weight in gold”.
Among those present was former member Vince Caligiuri, who is rejoining the club with an ambitious idea in hand: establishing a new Inter Academy in Sydney, creating a direct bridge to Milan and bringing in “a few future junior members in the process”. It added a welcome sense of forward momentum for the club.
On the pitch, Inter has lived through a demanding few months: farewells to several players and a league season that keeps the Nerazzurri just shy of the top.
The losses to Milan and Juventus still sting, but confidence hasn’t wavered: the team plays well, creates chances, entertains.
“Sooner or later, the others’ luck will run out,” Maremonti said with a candour that drew smiles and captured the down-to-earth nature of football fandom.
In the Champions League, Inter remains among the top teams, behind Napoli and Milan, despite the most recent setback.
But the life of the club isn’t only about results and standings. Since losing a stable venue where members could watch matches together, gathering has become more challenging.
That’s why dinners like this are a breath of fresh air—evenings where the community comes together around the same passion, even without big screens or terrace-style chanting.
Maremonti renewed the appeal: the club needs a new meeting place, somewhere supporters can come together again. In the meantime, the plan is to organise more dinners, more drinks, more shared moments.
Because Inter Club Sydney’s strength is right there—in the constancy of its people, in a loyalty that bridges distance, in the joy of seeing the same faces return.
Theirs is a group that stays solid through change, turning an annual gathering into a collective statement of belonging.
And in the end, that’s the football that endures: not the one made of statistics, but the one that lets you feel at home—even on the other side of the world.
