T he bar for success has always been set impossibly high for Simone Inzaghi. His older brother, Filippo, was a prolific goalscorer who won a World Cup with Italy and two Champions Leagues at Milan.
Fans renamed him even before those triumphs as “Superpippo”, a real-life comic book hero. Filippo achieved things as a player few others have.
He helped Lazio win one of two Serie A titles in the club’s history and was the second man to score four goals in a Champions League game.
He believes only injuries stopped his sibling from surpassing him “because he had better technical gifts than I did”. Yet Simone, too, was defined by a nickname bestowed on him: “Inzaghino”, the “Little Inzaghi”.
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