Italy post has issued today a  new set of stamps to pay tribute to Inter de Milan FC winning the European Champions league last month

Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly known as Internazionale or Inter, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is sometimes called Inter Milan. Inter are the champions of Italy, their win in 2009-10 being a fifth successive title, equalling the all-time record.

Wearing black and blue stripes, they have played in the Italian first division since 1908. The club have won twenty eight national trophies including eighteen Italian league titles, six Italian cups and four Italian Super Cup. Internationally, they won two back-to-back European Cups in 1964, 1965, three UEFA Cups in 1991, 1994 and 1998, and two Intercontinental Cups in 1964 and 1965. Former Porto and Chelsea manager José Mourinho led Inter to their first Champions League (and third European Cup in total) in 2010, third European title overall.

Inter play in the largest stadium in Italy, the Giuseppe Meazza stadium (also known as San Siro) and train at the Angelo Moratti Sports Center (also known as La Pinetina), a training facility 30 kilometers away in Appiano Gentile, near Como.

Jose Mourinho continues his assault on history. After 35 years of watching their rivals in the European elite win this most coveted of trophies, the Portuguese has brought the European Cup back to Internazionale. With it he brings an end to decades of continental subordination to their great city rivals Milan.

published June 25th, 2010