Italy has become accustomed to seeing football genius run in the family.
There was Giuseppe and Franco Baresi, Fabio and Paolo Cannavaro, Antonio and Gianluigi Donnarumma as well as Giovanni and Moise Kean. There has even been three generations of the Maldini family in Cesare, Paolo and Daniel to step out onto the pitch.
But no family has captured the imagination of Italian football quite like the Inzaghi family. Filippo and younger brother Simone stand on the brink of a phenomenal feat - both brothers are on the cusp of winning league titles.
The pair's career path has been similar, and yet had born wildly different results.
Growing up in the small village of San Nicolo, near Piacenza in the Emilia-Romagna region of the country, the Inzaghi family soon became focal points for the local team.
It was not what their parents had hoped for. The plan of their mother was to see them both qualify as doctors. In the end the brothers, while both holding degrees in accountancy, put everything into football.
Filippo, born three years earlier than brother Simone, was the relentless striker with an insatiable appetite for goals. All the local kids wanted him on their team, he was always the No 1 pick.
And yet by the time he turned eight, Simone, with his forensic eye for tactics and spotting weaknesses in opponents, was captain of the village team. His older brother would answer to him, that was final. While his brother hoarded the limelight, it was fast becoming apparent that Simone's future as a coach was very bright indeed.
'As kids we used to read Gazzetta dello Sport every day, spending time reading the line-ups,' Simone said in 2016.
'We grew up in San Nicolo, five minutes from Piacenza. It was at Piacenza we started playing in the youth academy all the way up to the first team, (Filippo) in Serie B and me in Serie A. Pippo was always my inspiration.'
As players, Simone was always in the shadow of 'Pippo'. His older brother soon boasted a trophy cabinet of three Serie A titles, two Champions Leagues and a World Cup.
By comparison, Simone ended his playing career with Lazio having won Serie A, two Coppa Italia trophies and the UEFA Super Cup.
Filippo was the superior player and became a total nuisance to face at AC Milan and Juventus. Simone, also a striker, committed himself to Lazio and was solid, if unspectacular. He was, however, part of the last Biancocelesti side to win the league and it would be fitting to end the run in the 20th anniversary year.
But the sibling rivalry about who was the better player never once turned ugly. No, the Inzaghi brothers have always been a cheerleader for the other. With the two now on the brink of something unprecedented, the pom-poms won't be put in storage just yet.
As players, it was Filippo who finished with the better career and that worked in his favour when the time came to make the switch to management. With a reputation as one of the finest strikers to play the game, AC Milan were quick to offer their former No 9 a role with the academy in 2012-13.
Two years later, with little time to grow into management, he was Milan's first team manager and for the first time in a long time, Filippo looked lost.
He got one season and was promptly sacked. He left his former side out of the European places down in 10th and 35 points adrift of Juventus. It was the club's worst league finish in 17 years.
It turned out coaching did not come as natural to 'Pippo' as scoring goals.
While his brother was being pilloried in the very same newspapers that the family read as children, Simone Inzaghi's start in coaching was a much more modest affair in Lazio's academy.
Known as 'The Almanac' around the club, the now 44-year-old was synonymous with a forensic level of attention to detail. He treated the youth team like the first team. By ironing out the chinks in his armour away from the scrutiny of Serie A, the younger Inzaghi was on a path to stardom as a coach.
Fast forward to 2016 and the brothers' trajectories found themselves on very different paths.
Filippo's Milan nightmare had clearly left a scar and he was forced to take the Venezia job in the third division in a bid to rebuild his reputation. After a horror show at the San Siro, his goalscoring record was no longer going to be enough to land the top jobs.
In April of that year, Simone was placed in temporary charge of his beloved Lazio following Stefano Pioli's sacking. While Filippo was his inspiration when they stood alongside each other in the San Nicolo village team, as coaches, the tables had turned dramatically.
It was 2016-17 where everything started to click for both Filippo and Simone.
Out of the bright lights of Serie A and down in the third tier, Filippo got a real grounding in management and secured promotion at the first attempt with Venezia.
Around 400 kilometres south his younger brother - who was initially replaced by Marcelo Bielsa before he left after a week and Simone got the job on a permanent basis - produced a fifth-placed finish and took Lazio to the Coppa Italia final.
Consistency is often the key to success and that has been integral to Lazio's resurgence under the younger Inzaghi. Keeping largely the same squad together and the system clear for all, they have become a slick operation in the Italian capital to the point where, right now, no side has lost fewer league games than Lazio.
There is a reason his brother championed him in 2018 as 'one of the best managers in Europe' and based on the fight being taken to Cristiano Ronaldo and Juventus right now, it would be tough to argue against that rhetoric.
And so Simone Inzaghi's ascent is unquestionable. His philosophy both exciting and attractive and his journey to this point has largely been without so much as a hiccup.
Quite the contrary for his older brother. After losing to Palermo with Venezia in the Serie B play-offs in 2017-18, Filippo had done enough to convince top-tier Bologna he was the best man to replace Roberto Donadoni.
That ensured he would face off against his brother for the first time. It was Boxing Day and Lazio eventually ran out comfortable 2-0 winners. There was now no doubt which Inzaghi everyone wanted for their team.
Bologna, much like Milan, proved a living nightmare and much like Milan, Sinisa Mihajlovic came in to replace him after just two wins in 21 games. He was axed in January with a scarcely believable 9.5 per cent win ratio.
But back out of the top flight and now Filippo Inzaghi is thriving again, this time as Benevento boss.
His team last lost a league match in October, they have taken 51 from the last 57 available points, and are cruising to the title with a 20-point cushion of Crotone.
The Witches, as the club are nicknamed, have firmly cast a spell on their rivals.
Now the brothers simply have to finish the job. Both can end up with league title winners' medals, both can end up as their league's Manager of the Season award, and both can do something few families ever do by having both winning coaches under one roof.