The Decade’s Top Football Strikers – Part 10
-Filippo Inzaghi:
Filippo Inzaghi is an Italian player currently in AC Milan and has gone through clubs like Parma, Juventus and Atalanta.
He is an AC Milan legend that is still playing for them; he is a creative striker and has won several titles both for his country and club.
Inzaghi helped AC Milan get the Champions League title in 2003 as well as in 2007. He also became the Man of the Match in the 2007 Champions League final match when he scored two goals against the Reds.
Filippo Inzaghi had started out with Parma which is a Serie A club. He had a rather unsuccessful term there and was transferred to Atalanta where the player scored twenty four goals in one season, after which he was bought by Juventus.
He had a good term with Juventus as he scored eighty nine goals in a hundred and sixty five matches there but got benched when David Trezeguet joined the ranks of the first team.
Later, he transferred to AC Milan in 2001 and still is there, and has made himself recognized as an AC Milan legend. He has always contributed to the team play whenever the club was in need like in the Champions League final.
Filippo also has a productive international career as he netted twenty five goals in fifty seven matches for the Italian national team. He has represented his country in numerous tournaments which include the 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cups.
-Hernan Crespo:
Hernan Crespo is an Argentinean player who is currently a member of Parma and has gone through clubs like AC Milan, Genoa, Chelsea, Inter Milan, River Plate and Lazio.
He is one of the best Argentinean footballers of the decade and has a successful career. He started with River Plate and had a brilliant run and then got transferred to Parma.
He gave some amazing performances for Parma also and played a key role in their success in Italy and all over Europe. Then, he made his move to Lazio at a record fee, where he worked wonders and netted forty eight goals in seventy three appearances.
Then, Crespo got signed to the Blues when Chelsea was trying to build a powerful and strong team. He had a rather average term there and got loaned out to AC Milan the next season.
Jose Mourinho persuaded the player to again join Chelsea for another season as a competition for Didier Drogba. But, he was again loaned out to Inter Milan for two years. After the loan term ended, Crespo got signed to Nerazzurri and had a favourable term
under Mourinho. He also made a few appearances for Inter Milan in 2008.
In January of 2010, he went back to his old club, Parma and is still there. He has had a favourable international career as well and has made sixty four appearances for his national team while scoring thirty five goals. He also was the highest scorer in
the 1996 Olympics and got the Silver Boot in the 2006 World Cup.
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