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In 1997, Inzaghi led the Italian Serie A in goals with 24, while playing for Atalanta . He has since won the league championship (also known as the ''scudetto'') with Juventus and most recently with A.C. Milan . Inzaghi has scored 21 goals in 48 appearances for his country and played in the , (scoring against and ), and the . He was left off the Italian Squad For Euro 2004 in favour of Bernardo Corradi , Alessandro Del Piero , Marco Di Vaio , Francesco Totti , and Christian Vieri . Inzaghi has been criticized for being a diver, i.e. a player that fakes fouls in order to gain Penalties or Free Kick s. Also, commentators often say, "That's not the first time Pippo will be offside," implying his inability to time his runs towards the goal. Nonetheless, Inzaghi is a proven scorer who relies primarily on good positional awareness and superior reactions to score his goals. Articles written about him throughout his career were rarely without a description of him as a specialist inside the penalty box. Indeed, on the day of Milan's 2nd leg quarter-final match against Lyon on April 4, 2006, a match which featured two typically sneaky strikes by the 32-year-old Inzaghi, nearly all of the articles preceding and following the match made note of Inzaghi's status as one of football's premier scorers of opportunistic goals, with the forward being called variously a "master poacher" and an "arch-predator" by sports writers covering the match. Paolo Rossi , the hero of Italy's 1982 World Cup triumph and himself a celebrated penalty-box predator had this to say about Inzaghi in the October 2005 issue of FourFourTwo magazine: " is the forward who is most similar to me. Sometimes you don't see him for a full match, but when you are least expecting it, he changes the game. He is always focused and even if he is not the strongest attacking player, he knows where to lurk in the penalty area." His supporters have affectionately nicknamed him ''Superpippo'' or ''Superpippo Inzagol'' during his best years; ''Superpippo'' is the Italian name of Disney character Super Goof . CAREER
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