MILAN – The game against Cagliari was the 382nd appearance of Samir Handanovic with the Inter shirt. A special and particular goal, because with this match the Nerazzurri captain has caught up with Ivano Bordon, the historic Nerazzurri goalkeeper. Handanovic, matching Bordon’s presences, becomes the second-highest-ranked goalkeeper in Nerazzurri history, only behind Walter Zenga, with 473 appearances with the Inter shirt.
A goal that is celebrated with a league win and a clean sheet. Handanovic, in his ninth season with the Nerazzurri, surpassed the 500-game mark in Serie A last February, becoming the foreign goalkeeper with the most matches in Italian league history. Chosen the best goalkeeper in Serie A 2018/2019, Handanovic holds the record for penalties stopped in Serie A, totaling 25.
HANDANOVIC’S 382 APPEARANCES WITH INTER
- 322 games in Serie A
- 16 matches at Coppa Italia
- 18 Champions League games
- 26 Europa League games
BORDON, 382 APPEARANCES AND UNBEATABLE RECORD
The first appearance of Ivano Bordon (born 1951) wearing the Inter shirt was on November 8, 1970, in a derby won by Milan: he replaced the injured Vieri at 1-0 and scored the first goal of his career for Rivera, from a penalty. Bordon’s debut in the first team coincided with the Scudetto: 9 appearances in 1970/71. His consecration came in the 1971-1972 Champions League, in the controversial clash against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Bordon became the hero of Berlin: a scoreless draw, a stopped penalty and an incredible number of decisive interventions, which earned him the nickname Sandro Mazzola gave him: “Pallottola”.
Bordon was with Inter from 1970 to 1983. In the record, in addition to the 1971 Viareggio Tournament, 2 League titles and 2 Italian Cups. The second tricolor with the Nerazzurri came in the 1979-1980 season, when Bordon set the unbeaten record for an Inter goalkeeper: he did not concede a goal for 686 consecutive minutes, between matchdays 4 and 11.
To 382 games with Inter, and before moving to Sampdoria, he added 7 participations in “alternative” tournaments: 4 in the Anglo-Italian Cup and 3 in the “Armando Picchi” National League Trophy.
Bordon has been on top of the world twice: in 1982 as a player, without playing, as a backup for Dino Zoff at the World Cup, and in 2006, on Marcello Lippi’s coaching staff during Italy’s success in Germany.
THE MOST OUTSTANDING GOALKEEPERS IN THE HISTORY OF INTER
- Walter Zenga, 473
- Ivano Bordon and Samir Handanovic, 382
- Julius Caesar, 300
- Gianluca Pagliuca, 234
- Francesco Toldo, 233
- Lido Vieri, 199
- Giuliano Sarti, 198
- Giorgio Ghezzi and Angelo Franzosi, 191
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