Filippo "Pippo" Inzaghi is an Italian professional football manager and former player who played as a striker.
42 Facts About Filippo Inzaghi
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Filippo Inzaghi was nicknamed "Superpippo" or "Alta tensione" by fans and commentators during his playing career.
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Filippo Inzaghi is the manager of Serie B club Reggina.
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Filippo Inzaghi's younger brother, Simone Inzaghi, is a former footballer and current manager of Italian club Inter.
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Filippo Inzaghi is the seventh highest scorer in Italy, with 313 goals scored in official matches.
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Filippo Inzaghi is currently the sixth-highest goal scorer in European club competitions with 70 goals, behind only Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Raul and Karim Benzema.
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Filippo Inzaghi is Milan's top international goal scorer in the club's history with 43 goals.
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Filippo Inzaghi holds the record for most hat-tricks in Serie A with 10.
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At international level, Filippo Inzaghi earned 57 caps for the Italy national team between 1997 and 2007, scoring 25 goals.
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Filippo Inzaghi represented his country at three FIFA World Cups, winning the 2006 edition, and he took part at UEFA Euro 2000, where he won a runners-up medal.
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The elder brother of fellow footballer Simone Filippo Inzaghi, he got his start playing for hometown club Piacenza as a teenager in 1991, but made only two league appearances before being loaned to Serie C1 side Leffe, with whom he scored an impressive 13 goals in 21 matches.
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In 1993, Filippo Inzaghi moved to Serie B club Hellas Verona and scored 13 goals in 36 league appearances.
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Filippo Inzaghi made his Serie A debut when he transferred to Parma in 1995, but scored only twice in 15 league matches.
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Filippo Inzaghi added another two goals in European competitions that season.
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Filippo Inzaghi was awarded Serie A Young Footballer of the Year and served as team captain in the last game of the season.
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Filippo Inzaghi was on the move to his sixth team in seven seasons, this time to Juventus for a reported 23 billion lire.
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Filippo Inzaghi formed a formidable attacking partnership along with Alessandro Del Piero and Zinedine Zidane, a tandem which would last for four seasons, under managers Marcello Lippi, and subsequently Carlo Ancelotti, marking Inzaghi's longest stint with one team at the time.
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Filippo Inzaghi helped Juventus win the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup, scoring five goals in the semi-finals against Rostov, and two in the finals against Rennes, qualifying Juventus for the UEFA Cup that season.
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Filippo Inzaghi scored 15 goals in Serie A as Juventus narrowly missed out on the title to Lazio, defeated on the final matchday.
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Filippo Inzaghi suffered a knee injury and missed the first half of the season.
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Filippo Inzaghi scored the decisive goal against the Bavarians in the 2007 quarter-finals, helping Milan to reach the semi-finals of the competition.
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In November 2008, Filippo Inzaghi agreed to a contract extension with Milan until June 2010.
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Filippo Inzaghi then went on to score three goals against Torino, his second professional hat-trick in that season.
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Filippo Inzaghi scored one hat-trick for Atalanta, four for Juventus, and five for Milan.
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Filippo Inzaghi became the second-oldest player to score in the Champions League, aged 37 years and 85 days, behind only Manchester United's Ryan Giggs, now surpassed by Inzaghi's compatriot Francesco Totti.
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On 10 November 2010, Filippo Inzaghi suffered a serious injury while playing for Milan against Palermo.
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Just like with Andrea Pirlo in 2011, Milan decided not to renew the contracts of several veteran players at the end of the season and Filippo Inzaghi was one of those, along with Gennaro Gattuso, Clarence Seedorf, Alessandro Nesta, and Gianluca Zambrotta.
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Filippo Inzaghi played his final game for Milan against Novara on 13 May 2012 and marked his performance by scoring the winning goal.
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On 24 July 2012, Filippo Inzaghi announced his retirement from professional football to start a coaching career.
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Between 1993 and 1996, Filippo Inzaghi made 14 appearances for the Italy under-21 team, scoring three goals; he was a member of the Italy under-21 squad that won the 1994 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
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Filippo Inzaghi earned his first senior cap for Italy in the Tournoi de France, against Brazil on 8 June 1997, under his former under-21 manager Cesare Maldini, and provided an assist to goalscorer Alessandro Del Piero.
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Filippo Inzaghi was called up for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Euro 2000, the 2002 World Cup and the 2006 World Cup.
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Filippo Inzaghi's performances helped Italy reach the final, where they were defeated by France , on a golden goal.
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Filippo Inzaghi is currently the sixth-highest goalscorer in the Italian national team's history, with 25 goals, alongside Adolfo Baloncieri and Alessandro Altobelli.
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Filippo Inzaghi was described as a player who lived on the offside line.
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On 9 June 2014, Filippo Inzaghi was named manager of Milan's first team after the dismissal of his former Rossoneri teammate Clarence Seedorf.
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On 7 June 2016, Filippo Inzaghi was appointed as the new coach of ambitious Lega Pro club Venezia.
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Filippo Inzaghi won the Coppa Italia Lega Pro in the same season.
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On 13 June 2018, Filippo Inzaghi was announced as the new head coach of top-flight Bologna, taking over from Roberto Donadoni.
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On 22 June 2019, Inzaghi was appointed manager of Benevento in Serie B On 30 June the following year, his club achieved promotion as champions with seven games remaining, reaching Serie A for the second time in their history.
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On 23 March 2022, Filippo Inzaghi was dismissed by club chairman Massimo Cellino, leaving the club in fifth place in the league table.
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On 12 July 2022, Filippo Inzaghi was appointed manager of Reggina in Serie B, signing a three-year deal with the Calabrians.