Simone Inzaghi

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Personal information
Simone Inzaghi
Full name	Simone Inzaghi
Date of birth	5 April 1976
Place of birth	Piacenza, Italy
Height	6 ft ¾ in (185 cm)
Nickname	Inzaghino SuperSimo Simogol
Position	Striker
Club information
Current club	S.S. Lazio
Number	21
Youth clubs
?-1994	Piacenza
Professional clubs*
Years	Club	Apps (goals)
1994-1995 1995-1996 1996-1997 1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2005 2005 2005-	Carpi (loan) Novara (loan) Lumezzane (loan) Piacenza Brescello (loan) Piacenza Lazio Sampdoria (loan) Lazio	9 (0) 23 (4) 23 (6) 0 (0) 21 (10) 30 (15) 109 (27) 5 (0) 7 (0)
National team**
2000	Italy	3 (0)
* Professional club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 September 2006 (UTC). ** National team caps and goals correct as of 11 October 2006 (UTC).

Simone Inzaghi (born April 5, 1976, in Piacenza, Italy) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre forward for the Serie A club S.S. Lazio. He is very popular with Lazio fans.

He has previously played for Piacenza Calcio, Carpi, Novara Calcio, A.C. Lumezzane, Brescello and U.C. Sampdoria. Inzaghi has also represented the Italian national football team.

He is the brother of Filippo Inzaghi, who is also a professional footballer. He has a son, Tommaso, born April 29, 2001 with ex-girlfriend model/actress Alessia Marcuzzi.

[edit] Playing career

Inzaghi started playing professional football in the 1993-94 season with his hometown team Piacenza, although he did not get to play a first team game in that season. The next season he was loaned out to Serie C1 side Carpi, where he played five games. His first goal came in the 1995-96 season, playing for Novara in Serie C2. After two more loan stints, at Lumezzane in 1996-97 and Brescello in 1997-98, Inzaghi came back to Piacenza, and played his first game for the team (also his first Serie A game) during the 1998-99 season. He scored a total of 15 goals in 30 games for Piacenza that season.

The next season he was signed by SS Lazio. He had a productive first season at his new club, scoring 7 goals in 22 Serie A games, and 9 in just 11 Champions League matches (including four in a single game against Olympique de Marseille at 14 March 2000). He also made his debut (and only appearance to date) for the Italian national football team on 29 March 2000 against Spain. Lazio went on to win the Scudetto, as well as the Coppa Italia that season. Inzaghi won the Coppa Italia again with Lazio in 2004.