Filippo Inzaghi - Italy's " Superpippo "

Filippo Inzaghi is an Italian football player born on August 9, 1973, in Piacenza. Inzaghi plays as a striker for European Champions AC Milan and is popularly known by his nickname "Superpippo" for his exceptionally good positional sense near the goal which has helped him score many of his career goals. He is considered as one of the greatest goal poachers to ever play the game. He started his career as a footballer playing for his hometown club Piacenza Calcio in 1991. With a change over to Parma A.C, the following year, Inzaghi stepped upto the top league getting two goals from 15 matches. In 1997, being the season's top scorer in the Italian Serie A with 24 goals, he was named the young player of the year. Later Inzaghi moved on to AC Milan.

At Milan, Inzaghi became the all-time top Italian goalscorer in the European competition history, beating the previous record of 39 goals held by Alessandro Altobelli. With Pippo, AC Milan won the European Cup (2002-03) and (2006-07),the Scudetto (2003-04), Italian Super Cup (2004), the European Super Cup (2003) and the Coppa Italia (2002-03).

Inzaghi made his debut for Italy against Brazil on June 8, 1997, and has since scored 25 goals in 54 appearances. He was the top scorer for the Azurri in the Qualifying campaigns for both Korea/Japan and Uefa Euro 2004. Pippo was also a member of the Italian Squad at the 1998, 2002 FIFA World Cup finals, UEFA Euro 2000 and also the winning squad at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Filippo Inzaghi has made 5 appearances and scored 3 goals so far in Euro 2008 qualifiers. Italy is at the second position in Group B with 16 points. The next qualifying match for Italy is against France on September 8th.

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