View Full Version : Simone Inzaghi has been called up to play for Italy in their friendly match.


Paolo_Rossi
26-03-2000, 01:33:AM
Yes ,you heard it right,Simone(pippo's brother)will be playing for italy here is the article that talks about it.
ROME, March 25 (Reuters) - Lazio striker Simone Inzaghi
received his first international call-up on Saturday when Italy
coach Dino Zoff named him in a 22-man squad to face Spain in a
friendly next week.
Inzaghi, who bagged four goals for Lazio in a 5-1 defeat of
Olympique Marseille in the Champions League this month and
another in their 2-1 defeat of Chelsea in midweek, joins his
brother Filippo for Wednesday's match in Barcelona.
The brothers, whose club sides meet in a key Serie A clash
next Saturday, have never played together at senior level.
Zoff dropped former Real Madrid right back Christian Panucci
for the trip and appears likely to start the match with a
three-man defence of Ciro Ferrara of Juventus, AC Milan captain
Paolo Maldini and Parma's Fabio Cannavaro.
Maldini's long-time team mate Demetrio Albertini returns
after being dropped for Italy's 1-0 defeat of Sweden in a
friendly last month, as do Inter Milan's Luigi Di Biagio and
experienced right-sided midfielder Diego Fuser.
Juventus pairing Filippo Inzaghi and Alessandro Del Piero
will almost certainly start up front with Simone Inzaghi perhaps
getting a chance to play alongside his brother later in the tie.
Zoff is without five players for the trip to Spain.
Former Atletico Madrid striker Christian Vieri picked up a
thigh injury in Inter Milan's 1-0 defeat at Lecce on Saturday
while AS Roma's Vincenzo Montella was injured in the Rome derby,
which Lazio won 2-1.
Parma's Dino Baggio, Juve's Antonio Conte and Lazio
centre-back Alessandro Nesta were already on the injury list.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Parma), Francesco Toldo
(Fiorentina)
Defenders: Giuseppe Pancaro and Paolo Negro (both Lazio),
Ciro Ferrara, Mark Iuliano and Gianluca Pessotto (all Juventus),
Fabio Cannavaro (Parma), Paolo Maldini (AC Milan)
Midfielders: Diego Fuser (Parma), Gianluca Zambrotta and
Alessio Tacchinardi (both Juventus), Luigi Di Biagio (Inter
Milan), Massimo Ambrosini, Gennaro Gattuso and Demetrio
Albertini (all AC Milan), Stefano Fiore (Udinese)
Forwards: Filippo Inzaghi and Alessandro Del Piero (both
Juventus), Simone Inzaghi (Lazio), Marco Delvecchio and
Francesco Totti (both AS Roma).

juvegoose
26-03-2000, 06:33:AM
finally we get to see what the Inzaghi brothers can do when they're both on the same side.....last time they met, they were on opposite sides, and Simone got sent off.......i hope that doesnt happen again http://www.soccergaming.com/ubb/smile.gif......anyway, they'll have plenty of good service from Del Piero so i reckon Italy have a good chance.......

Zambrotta
26-03-2000, 09:38:AM
Forget it. ALL forwards are out of form (Simone Inzaghi may be the exception), that dumbass Albertini seems to be starting again, and at the defensive end there's no Nesta and Panucci.
I really fear this won't be pretty.

Paolo_Rossi
26-03-2000, 02:30:PM
Talking about nesta and panucci not playing,dont forget Vieri,Italy's top goalscorer in the past 2 years,but at least simone inzaghi will hopefuilly play.That Albertini is back,**** that pisses me off.

Zambrotta
26-03-2000, 03:52:PM
Yo Rossi, right about Vieri. But if the other 5 forwards were in form, this would not be too bad. It is sad that all of them play not too well at the moment, Totti for an instance is in a kind of crisis, while del Piero plays o.k., but he still does not score. Filippo Inzaghi hopefully will lose his place to his brother soon.