Filippo Inzaghi

Filippo Inzaghi was not the most talented player, yet he was able to show himself as one of the most effective strikers of his generation, especially in important matches.

678

Games

310

Goals

Assists

Trophies

1991/95 Piacenza (ITA) 44 games, 17 goals

(Italian Championship D2: 39 games, 15 goals)

(Italian Cup: 5 games, 2 goals)

1992/93 AlbinoLeffe (ITA) (Loan) 21 games, 13 goals

1993/94 Hellas Verona (ITA) (Loan) 37 games, 14 goals

(Italian Championship D2: 36 games, 13 goals)

(Italian Cup: 1 game, 1 goal)

1995/96 Parma AC (ITA) 22 games, 4 goals

(Italian Championship: 15 games, 2 goals)

(Italian Cup: 1 game)

(Cup Winners' Cup: 6 games, 2 goals)

1996/97 Atalanta (ITA) 34 games, 25 goals

(Italian Championship: 33 games, 24 goals)

(Italian Cup: 1 game, 1 goal)

1997/2001 Juventus Turin (ITA) 163 games, 86 goals

(Italian Championship: 120 games, 57 goals)

(Italian Cup: 7 games, 2 goals)

(Italian Super Cup: 2 games, 2 goals)

(Champions League: 26 games, 15 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 4 games, 3 goals)

(Intertoto Cup: 4 games, 7 goals)

2001/12 AC Milan (ITA) 300 games, 126 goals

(Italian Championship: 202 games, 73 goals)

(Italian Cup: 20 games, 10 goals)

(Italian Super Cup: 1 game)

(Champions League: 65 games, 36 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 7 games, 4 goals)

(UEFA Super Cup: 2 games, 1 goal)

(Intercontinental Cup: 1 game)

(Club World Cup: 2 games, 2 goals)

With the National Team :

57 caps, 25 goals

(Friendly matches: 22 caps, 3 goals)

(World Cup qualifiers: 8 caps, 7 goals)

(World Cup: 5 caps, 1 goal)

(Euro qualifiers: 18 caps, 12 goals)

(Euro: 4 caps, 2 goals)

1st cap: June 8, 1997 against Brazil (3-3)

Last cap: September 8, 2007 against France (0-0)

U23: 14 caps, 3 goals

Filippo Inzaghi

Born August 9, 1973 in Piacenza (ITA)

Italian, Striker, 1m81

Nickname: SuperPippo

From debut in lower divisions to top scorer in Serie A

Filippo Inzaghi was born on August 9, 1973 in Piacenza, Italy. He was not the fastest player, not the most physical or the most technical, to tell the truth, he had some shortcomings in these areas, yet he had something more, an extraordinary sense of goal. A quality to position himself perfectly in the area to pile up goals.

Playing systematically on the edge of offside, the player had this quality to make the right call at the right time. Once in the area he could score with his head or his foot, a complete finisher. He will have been one of the most remarkable foxes of the areas in the history of football.

With a passion transmitted by their father, the Inzaghi brothers, Filippo and Simone will both become professional players. Both will start their career in the club Piacenza FC, for Filippo it will be in the 1991/92 season that he joins the first team, when he is 18 years old.

After 2 loans to AlbinoLeffe and Hellas Verona, the player is finally recruited by Parma AC in 1995. There, the player does not manage to impose himself and he leaves after only 1 year the rising team of Italian football. He then joins Atalanta Bergamo in order to relaunch, he is then 23 years old, he will slam an excellent individual season, 25 goals in 34 games, he also finishes top scorer of the Italian championship with 24 goals.

National team and Juventus Turin

This period coincides with his debut in the Italian national team, on June 8, 1997, during a match against Brazil, final score 3-3. In the shoes of a great hope of Italian football, the player joined Juventus Turin in the summer of 1997, at Juventus, he was consistent and scored 86 goals in 163 games. Categorized as a formidable striker in front of goal, he became a prominent figure in Italian football of this period.

Filippo was not the best striker, but he was one of the most effective, the way to score? He didn't care, for him, a goal was a goal. Winning his first collective trophies with Juventus, he would experience the best part of his career with AC Milan, which he joined in 2001.

A master of big matches

His career with the Italian national team would last 10 years, for his country, he would score 25 goals in 57 games and be in some competition with Totti, Del Piero, Toni or Vieri. An unfortunate finalist at Euro 2000, he won the 2006 World Cup, a competition in which he only played 26 minutes.

His career with AC Milan was legendary and a symbol of his career, a player with an ordinary appearance, who made simple gestures, but who was formidably decisive and dangerous for opponents. In total, he played 300 times for AC Milan and scored 126 goals, statistics that seem light but are impressive when you know who the player was competing with.

At Milan, he scored 36 goals in 65 Champions League matches, bringing his total to 51 goals in 91 matches in the queen of club competitions. In all, he scored 68 goals in 111 matches in international club competitions, excellent statistics.

Inzaghi was above all a player who knew how to score in big matches, scoring goals at the last minute or when his team was in bad shape. He was one of the major elements of the Champions League won in 2003 and 2007 by AC Milan. The 2002/03 season remains surely the best of his career, he played 50 matches for 30 goals scored and 7 assists delivered. In the Champions League, he scored 10 goals and delivered 3 assists in 14 matches.

But it was during his 2006/07 season that he would definitively enter the legend of the Champions League, in the final of the competition, he scored a double synonymous with AC Milan's victory over Liverpool, a legendary double. The player will have only touched the ball 21 times, shooting twice, an incredible finisher.

Filippo ended his career at the end of the 2011/12 season, at the age of 39. The player, described by many as selfish, would probably not have had the same career if he had not had the same desire to score in every match.