Pippo Inzaghi gets better with age

By: Francesco | April 21st, 2009

What can you say about Pippo Inzaghi? At the age of 35, the goal poaching extraordinaire is still giving 110% on the football pitch and is still scoring goals. His latest feat came this past weekend, where Inzaghi scored a hat-trick to contribute to Milan’s 5-1 drubbing of Torino. That was actually his second hat-trick of the season, as he put 3 past Atalanta a couple of weeks ago. He now has 11 goals in 20 appearances in Serie A this season, not bad at all for a player that was considered to be finished at the beginning of the year. The fact of the matter is, SuperPippo will always score goals. He just has this innate sense of positioning where he always knows exactly where to be to put the ball into the back of the net. He has the mindset of a young player and when he scores a goal he celebrates like he has just scored the winning goal in a World Cup final. What did Pippo have to say about his latest feat?

“I am almost 36 years old, but at the San Siro I feel like I am 10 years younger. This is thanks to the rossoneri fans, a fantastic stadium, and the Milan jersey: I put it on and I get younger“. Pippo continued, “One of my best qualities is that I adjust my positioning based on whoever has the ball: if Pirlo is on the ball I make a certain movement, if Kakà has it I make a different movement because each one of them has their own unique style of play. And if Beckham is on the ball I know an inch perfect cross will arrive in the middle of the box, so I prepare my head.”

SuperPippo then talked about getting angry about substitutions: “Ancelotti gave me a great ovation, but it’s a little bit like children. If you bring them to an amusement park and after an hour of great fun the father says ‘Ok kids, we have to go home now’, they get upset. They get mad because they want to keep having fun, but you have to respect the decision because he is your father. San Siro is my amusement park“.

I hope Inzaghi continues to enjoy himself, as he really he is a great player to watch. As much as people say that he dives all the time, he’s offside the whole game, he has no technique, they don’t realize that Inzaghi is a world class player, and I hope he doesn’t retire soon (with his personality it doesn’t look like happening), as he’s always been one of my favorite players to watch.

FORZA SUPERPIPPO!