Filippo Inzaghi (photo below) is a former professional Italian footballer. Currently, she is coaching, and is the main coach of Bologna. During his football career, he played as a striker in such clubs as Piacenza, Parma, Atalanta, Juventus and Milan. As part of Rossoneri, he spent a significant part of his career becoming a world star. Between 1997 and 2007, Filippo Inzaghi defended the colors of the national team of Italy, in which he is the 2006 world champion.
Achievements
At the club level, Inzaghi is a two-time European Cup winner, a three-time champion of the Italian Serie A, and also the owner of many national Italian cups. As a player, he is one of the top ten European Cup scorers of all time.
Biography
Filippo Inzaghi was born on the ninth of August 1973 in the city of Piacenza (Italy). He grew up and was brought up in a sports family. His younger brother Simeone Inzaghi is also a former professional footballer who has played as a striker for Lazio for eleven seasons.
Fiilippo Inzaghi began his football career as part of his native club Pchenza from the Italian city of the same name, where he was born. In the period from 1985 to 1991 he played in the youth system of the club, after which he began to be involved in the main team. For four seasons in the “red-white” held 39 matches and scored fifteen goals. In the same years, he spent a total of two years renting the Leffe and Verona clubs.
From Parma to Juventus: the rise of a new football star
In the 1995/96 season, Inzaghi joined Parma, where he played as the main striker. The following game year, he became the Atalanta football player, playing for which Filippo received a serious injury in 1996, which could put an end to his career. Fortunately, the football player underwent all the necessary operations and managed to recover by the next season. In 1997, he became Serie A's top scorer, scoring 24 goals. After such a tremendous success, the young striker was acquired by Turin Juventus.
Inzaghi spent four seasons at the Turin club, during which he spent 120 official games and became the author of 57 goals. In football, the “old Signora” Filippo became the champion of Italy 1998, the owner of the Intertoto Cup 1999 and the Italian Super Cup 1997.
The game for Milan
In 2001, Filippo joined the “red-black”. Here he became one of the best players in the history of the club, in which he spent eleven seasons of Serie A. For so many years, the player won eight trophies, including two Champions League cups (2003 and 2007).
On May 23, 2007, Filippo Inzaghi became the hero of the Champions League final, scoring a double for Rossoneri, thanks to which the Italian team won Liverpool 2-1 and won the Cup.
A few weeks later, he scored two goals with the Italian national team in a match with the Faroe Islands. Filippo became the champion in the number of goals scored in European cups (currently 70 goals). In this classification, he is now overtaken by soccer player Raul, who has 72 hits, as well as Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi, who have 120 and 103 goals, respectively. Having scored a goal in a match against the Scottish Celtic, he scored 63 goals in and overtook Gerd Mueller in this rating.
In 2007, Filippo Inzaghi won the Champions League with Milan, scoring two goals in the final match against the English Liverpool. The football player himself considers this achievement the most significant in his career. Inzaghi announced his retirement at Rossoneri ahead of the match against Novara. Pippo entered the field in the 67th minute and scored the last goal in the colors of “Milan”.
Coaching
After completing his appearances on the football field in 2012, he remained in Milan, where he headed the club’s youth team.
June 9, 2014, after the release of his former teammate Clarence Seedorf from the post of head coach of the main team of Milan, Inzaghi was appointed head of its coaching staff. He worked with the main team of Rossoneri only one season 2014/15, which until recently, one of the leaders of Italian football finished in 10th place on the standings. This result was considered a failure and coach Filippo Inzaghi was officially dismissed on June 4, 2015.
In the summer of 2016 he took over the leadership of the Italian team “Venice” from the third strongest division of the Italian championship. In 2018, he became the head coach of Bologna.