Simone Inzaghi, the coach who leads a counter-revolution on the bench of Inter Milan

He was for a long time “the brother of”. The one whose footballer career has suffered from comparison with his elder, Filippo. Since he converted as a coach, Simone Inzaghi gradually departed from this image. When his brother struggles to make a name for himself as a technician – despite a series promotion this season with Pisa – receives her titles and honors. Better still, Saturday, May 31, in Munich (Germany), he will play, against Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), his second Champions League final on the bench of Inter Milan.

In case of success, Simone Inzaghi would become, at the age of 49, the eighth Italian coach to lift the “big ears cup”, the first at the head of the Lombard club historically turned abroad. He did not go far, in 2023. But his Nerazzurri had finally bowed a goal against the Manchester City of Pep Guardiola. After the meeting, the Catalan had rented the quality of the team of its vis-à-vis and prophesied that the latter would find in the future this level of the competition.

He had therefore targeted right, perhaps forecasting that the principles of the Plaisance Native, the capital of Emilie-Romagne, both innovative and conservative in view of the game now widely practiced in Europe, would be wreaking havoc on the continental scene. “Simone Inzaghi has not returned to a mold at all. He has an idea of ​​the specific game, which belongs to him ”Analysis Benoît Cauet, former midfielder of Inter Milan and PSG.

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