Pippo Inzaghi was often criticized for his lack of footballing skills by the likes of Johan Cruyff, and even, many of his team mates, and to be fair...they weren’t wrong. In fact, You’d be hard pressed to find a moment of technical brilliance from Pippo Inzaghi.
Which begs the question: How did Pippo Inzaghi score so many goals? And how did he end up being a European & World Champion with appalling lack of football skills?
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Well...to answer that, we need to go back...way back to when he was born.
Rumor has it that Pippo Inzaghi was born in offside. Bothering linesmen would be a running theme throughout Inzaghi’s career, to the point that people often forget...just how good he REALLY was.
During his first ever international call up, Inzaghi's new team-mates were SHOCKED by Inzaghi’s lack of technical ability.
Pippo Inzaghi's game was purely on passion and intelligence. The two qualities that didn’t let him down.
Pippo Inzaghi couldn’t dribble, nor make a simple long pass, but desire, determination, and extremely intelligent movement were his tools of scoring.
And boy did he score. 70 in Europe, and 197 goals in Serie A... against some of the fiercest defenders in the world. Not bad for someone who couldn’t play football to save his LIFE !!!
In a career that saw him play for Juventus, and Milan, he because a Champions League winner, against his former teammates in 2003, and scored a brace against Liverpool in 2007 Champions League final.
Pippo Inzaghi also became a World Cup winner in 2006.
Pippo Inzaghi burst into the scene as a hated ‘lucky’ goalscorer, but retired as a legend of the game without any regrets, and with his head held high.
There’s a reason why such a technically limited footballer is idolized by millions of fans and respected by everyone else...It was his drive...It was his passion. And it was his unmatched intelligence in the box
It’ll be interesting if we’ll see another kind of Pippo Inzaghi succeed in the modern football.
But one thing’s for sure...Pippo Inzaghi’s career is criminally underrated and misunderstood.
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28 сен 2024
