Profile Filippo Inzaghi

Personal information

Full name : Filippo Inzaghi
Date of birth : 9 August 1973
Place of birth : Piacenza, Italy
Height : 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Striker
Current club : Milan
Number : 9
Youth career
Piacenza
Senior career :
1991–1995 Piacenza
1992–1993 → Leffe (loan)
1993–1994 → Verona (loan)
1995–1996 Parma
1996–1997 Atalanta
1997–2001 Juventus
2001– Milan
National team :
1993–1996 Italy U-21
1997–2007 Italy

Club career

The brother of fellow footballer Simone Inzaghi, Inzaghi received his commence playing for hometown club Piacenza Calcio as a teenager in 1991, but organised simply couple league attainments in the past being let to Serie C1 side Leffe, with whom he scored an noble 13 objectives in 21 matches. In 1993, Inzaghi transferred to Serie B club Verona and scored 13 objectives in 36 league appearances. Upon his return to Piacenza, he scored 15 times in 37 sporting activities alleviating his team won Serie B and proved himself as an exciting young prospect.
Inzaghi organised his Serie A debut after he transferred to Parma A.C. in 1995, but scored simply two times in 15 Serie A matches. One of these couple objectives came against Piacenza Calcio, taking in him cry. He supplemental another couple objectives in European competition. The pursuing season he transferred on to Atalanta B.C., completing as the Capocannoniere (Serie A's seal scorer) with 24 objectives, and scored against every team in the league. He was awarded Serie A Young Footballer of the Year, and was the team captain in terminal game of the season.

Juventus

But, he was before long on the transfer once again to his sixth team in seven seasons, this time to Juventus F.C. for a reported 23 billion Italian lire. He profiled a formidable criticizing partnership along with Alessandro Del Piero and Zinedine Zidane, a tandem which would terminal for four seasons, noting Inzaghi's longest stint with one team at the time. During his time at Juventus F.C. he scored couple Champions League covering snares (against Dinamo Kiev and Hamburger SV), and he was first performer to do so. Juventus won the Scudetto in the 1997–98 season in which Inzaghi scored a settled, Scudetto winning covering snare against Bologna, but hidden 1–0 in the Champions League final to Real Madrid.

Milan

Despite a outstanding count of 89 objectives in 165 sporting activities for the Bianconeri, Inzaghi was before long benched in have a preference of David Trézéguet, and resultant signalled for A.C. Milan for reported 70 billion Italian Lire, or 45 million Euro wealth plus Cristian Zenoni. (Sky Sports reported a worse total figure, £17M[4]) for the 2001–02 campaign by Fatih Terim. Juventus transmitted that the sale of Inzaghi effected a net profit of €31M to the club. However, Inzaghi suffered a knee injury and missed the first half of the season. Upon his return, he was able to forge a forceful goalscoring partnership with Andriy Shevchenko, and he before long racked higher an noble trophy be reliant with the Rossoneri, among them the 2002–03 Champions League (in which Milan defeated his beforehand team, Juventus, in the final on penalties), along with the 2003 Coppa Italia and the 2003–04 Scudetto. In 2002–03 Champions League campaign he scored his record third Champions League covering snare against Deportivo La Coruna in the Group point and settled objective in quarterfinals against Ajax, totalling 12 European objectives in that season. In November 2004 he signalled a contract extension.[6]
Inzaghi was able to fully recover from persistent knee injuries that had dogged him for couple years to the distance that he regained his predatory goalscoring type by scoring 12 objectives in 22 Serie A fits in 2005–06, along with four objectives in five Champions' League appearances; couple against Olympique Lyonnais in the quarter-finals and another couple against FC Bayern Munchen in the first knockout stage. He scored the settled objective against the 'Bavarians' in the 2007 quarter-finals. On 23 May 2007, in the 2007 Champions League final in Athens, he scored both of Milan's objectives in their 2–1 victory through Liverpool in a rematch of the 2005 final. He documented later the match:

It's a image since I was a juvenile to score two times in the final, and the ones I scored yesterday after dark were the bulk noteworthy in my life. It was an unforgettable game. It's something that will continue with me all my life and couple objectives in the final articulates for itself.
At the commence of the 2007–08 season he picked higher where he withdrew off in Athens, scoring the equalizer in the Super Cup in Milan's 3–1 victory through Sevilla. Inzaghi capped off the year by scoring couple objectives in the final of the 2007 Club World Cup, alleviating Milan win 4–2 against Boca Juniors to take revenge for the defeat on extra distributes in 2003. By scoring those couple objectives, he became the first striker to score in all worldwide club competitions.

On 24 February 2008, Inzaghi scored the fit winning objective in Milan's 2–1 win through Palermo with a diving header later originating in to the game from the bench; it tagged his first Serie A objective in through a year. This was pursued by ten more objectives in the league, the terminal against Udinese. This assault against Udinese was his objective diagram 100 for the club in official games. But in spite of incredible type, Italy overseer Donadoni abandoned to call him for EURO 2008. In November 2008, Pippo equated for a contract extension to June 2010.

On 8 March 2009, Inzaghi scored his first hat-trick of the season for Milan against Atalanta, commending the team to win 3–0 at the San Siro. His 300th career objective came in the 5–1 thrashing of Siena away from home. He afterward went on to score three objectives against Torino, his second representative hat-trick in that season. Scoring this hat-trick enabled 'Super Pippo' (his nickname in the media) to set a record for the performer with the bulk hat-tricks in Serie A through the terminal 25 years. With 10 hat-tricks, Inzaghi is frontwards of Giuseppe Signori (9), Hernán Crespo (8), Roberto Baggio, Marco van Basten, Gabriel Batistuta, Abel Balbo, Vincenzo Montella (7), and David Trézéguet (6). Inzaghi has scored one hat-trick for Atalanta, four for Juventus, and five for Milan.

In the 2009–10 season, below omnibus Leonardo, Inzaghi was relegated to the role of backup performer with his contract set to expire in June 2010. On 21 May 2010, he was submitted a novel one year contract which lasts until 30 June 2011.
On November 3, 2010, in the UEFA Champions League 2010-11 Group Stage campaign, with Milan trailing by 1-0 to Real Madrid, Inzaghi came off the bench in the second half and scored a brace to give Milan a 2-1 lead. However, Pedro León equalized in the 94th very small, with the final score ending 2-2. On that occasion, he became the novel all-time seal scorer of all European club skirmishes with 70 goals. He also became the oldest performer to score in the Champions League, older 37 years 85 days. With these couple objectives, Filippo Inzaghi went frontwards of his idol Marco van Basten on the club items of the all time seal objective scorers with 125 goals.

On 10 November 2010, Inzaghi suffered a dangerous injury where playing for Milan against Palermo. A assertion on the official A.C. Milan website confirmed that Inzaghi had suffered a lesion of the anterior cruciate ligament and connected lesion to the external meniscus of the withdrew knee. It is thought he will be out for the unwind of the season. Due to his age, this injury could end his career, but ageless 'Super Pippo' was very optimistic.

European competition records

Inzaghi is the all time bulk prolific objective scorer combined with Raúl (with 70 goals) in European club competitions. He became the first performer to score couple Champions League covering snares (both with Juventus) after he netted a treble during a 4–4 assembly point draw with Hamburg on 13 September 2000; his first was in a 4–1 victory through Dynamo Kyiv during the 1997–98 quarterfinals. Inzaghi scored a record third Champions League hat-trick in a 4–0 win against Deportivo in the 2002–03 season, where playing for Milan. This record would resultant be tied by Michael Owen, any person who has scored couple hat-tricks for Liverpool and a third for Manchester United. Pippo Inzaghi is the oldest performer any person who scored in CL, with 37 years and 85 days.

International career

Inzaghi earned his first cap for Italy against Brazil on June 8, 1997, and has since scored 25 objectives in 57 appearances. He was summoned higher for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Inzaghi was Italy's seal goalscorer during the qualifying disks of the 2002 World Cup and Euro 2004, but missed the latter due to injury.

His persistent knee and ankle injuries left a finish to his worldwide play for close to couple years in the past his resurgence at the club crosswise, which resulted in his being summoned higher by Italy omnibus Marcello Lippi for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals. Due to the abundance of other seal strikers such as Alessandro Del Piero, Francesco Totti and Luca Toni, Inzaghi organised his simply attainment (subbing on for Alberto Gilardino) in a assembly point fit against the Czech Republic on 22 June 2006, scoring his simply objective in the tournament, turning Petr Čech in a one-on-one encounter to net in Italy's second objective, which organised him the oldest performer to have scored for Italy.

He is now the sixth-highest goalscorer in team history with 25 objectives, which ties him with Adolfo Baloncieri and Alessandro Altobelli.
Inzaghi is kept particulars for his talent to play off the shoulders of the terminal defender, directing Sir Alex Ferguson to quip, "That lad must have been born offside.