During his participation in the Italian Professional Footballers' Association Awards, Internazionale president Marotta was interviewed by Sky Sport Italia.

Regarding today's news, it is clear that when colleagues — especially executives from top clubs like yourselves — decide to go their separate ways, it is always a very delicate moment requiring careful handling. Today, the club parted ways with Piero Ausilio, who worked at Inter for nearly 30 years, a period during which you together won many honors and numerous trophies. Below are President Marotta's comments, in which he will briefly explain the reasons behind this decision...

First and foremost, at the heart of this decision lies the club's and ownership's profound respect, appreciation, and gratitude for Piero's 28 years of dedication to Inter. What we can say is that both parties made this decision in a very friendly and mutual manner, which led to their separation. However, the entire process of this decision was conducted with complete respect for professionalism, deep mutual friendship, and his role as a close colleague of mine.

Therefore, we have immense respect and gratitude for everything he has done in the past, and I sincerely wish him all the best for his future. Since he is still young, I hope he can continue to find the great satisfaction and sense of fulfillment he experienced during his time as a key executive at Inter.

My second question concerns the decision to entrust the leadership and management responsibilities of the current sports department to Dario Baccin. I would like to ask whether this decision is in any way similar to the decision made last year regarding Cristian Chivu? That is, does it aim to reward and promote exceptional talent cultivated within Inter? Furthermore, what are your expectations for Baccin's work ahead?

First, for us and for the club's ownership, it is absolutely a source of immense pride and honor to be able to discover, appoint, and employ talent directly from within the club during moments of organizational change or succession. For a great club like Inter, being able to do this is truly remarkable and wonderful.

We adopted this approach with Chivu last year, and we are doing the same again this year when replacing a high-caliber professional executive like Piero Ausilio. We have entrusted the responsibilities of this important position to one of our own managers who has been at Inter for more than 10 years. He knows this club very well, Inter's DNA runs through him, and he understands the values the club represents.

Therefore, we feel very comfortable and at ease with this. We are confident that, as an excellent student of Piero's, he will be able to succeed his mentor honorably and exceptionally on this new, absolutely important and responsible journey. Of course, he is not alone; behind him stands the club's extremely robust structure, a strong management team, and the support of the club's ownership. Everyone knows how much we appreciate and value the exceptional talent our club exhibits and cultivates both on and off the pitch.

As Inter fans are naturally very concerned about this matter, and as reporter Balzarini said on site, this is the most important and central news today, given Piero Ausilio's significance to Inter. What fans most urgently want to understand is the reason. That is, it remains unclear whether there was any disagreement or conflict between him and the club's ownership regarding Ausilio's contract renewal. You mentioned earlier that this was a "mutually agreed choice," but Inter fans certainly want to know why such a capable, professional, and high-level executive as Ausilio is leaving Inter today. President Marotta, what should we tell the vast majority of Inter fans about this?

It is reasonable to delve into these specific circumstances, as these matters are indeed relevant to all of us. Piero will be with us tonight, and I spent the entire day with him today. Is his relationship with ownership very good? Absolutely, his relationship with me and with all of us is very good.

I want to reiterate that after such a long career, perhaps a person may want to test themselves elsewhere, embrace new challenges, or perhaps also want to take a small break, a vacation. Or perhaps he wanted to make his own decision — one could say it is a choice made by him, and also a choice made by us, but both sides reached this consensus in a highly consistent and extremely respectful manner.

Furthermore, I reiterate that I do not believe it is appropriate to delve too deeply into these specific details, because these are very positive internal management dynamics of our club, and even benign and wonderful ones, carried out by people who trust and respect one another. That is what is truly most important.

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