Simone Inzaghi to join brother
in 1st international call-up
March 25, 2000
SportsServer
ROME - 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- 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 teammate,
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).
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