Italian national soccer team

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Home leotard

Auswärtstrikot

Pointed name

Squadra Azzurra/Gli Azzurri

federation

Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio

coach

Marcello Lippi, since 2004

record players

Paolo Maldini (126)

record goal scorer

Luigi Riva (35)

first international match

Italy 6:2 France
(Milan, Italy; 15. May 1910)

Highest victory

Italy 9:0 the USA
(Brentford, England; 2. August 1948)

Highest defeat

Hungary 7:1 Italy
(Budapest, Hungary; 6. April 1924)

World championship

final round participation: 15 (first: 1934)
Best results: World champion 1934, 1938, 1982

European championship

final round participation: 6 (first: 1968)
Best result: European champion 1968

the Italian national soccer team, the Squadra in such a way specified Azzurra (short Azzurri “the blue ones”) is one of the most successful national teams in the football. Italy won three times the football WM and once the football EM.

1 history
2 participation of Italy at the soccer world championship (16 times)
3 participation of Italy at the football European championship (6 times)
of 4 titles
5 current cadre
6 acquaintance player
of 7 former national coaches
of 8 international matches against Germany
of 9 international matches against the GDR
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history

the Italian football roof federation Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (F.I.G.C.) became to 16. March 1898 in Turin based and is since 1905 FIFA member.

Italy obtained first two large successes in the years 1934 and 1938, when one could win the WM in each case. Projecting player was at that time Giuseppe Meazza. 1968 could be won the first and so far only EM-title. However the Italians needed the good-natured assistance Fortunas, because in the semi-final a Münzwurf had to decide on getting ahead. In the final likewise a repetition play became necessary, before Italy was certain as a winner.

1982 could be brought in the so far last WM-title. The team with the goal scorer king of the tournament Paolo Rossi, which shot Brazil in the intermediate round practically in the single-handed attempt with 3 hits, Dino Zoff, which world-class-gate-wait, that with these WM already 40 was years old and a legendary defense row around Gaetano Scirea, won against Germany the final earned with 3:1.

Nearly tragically the Pechsträhne of the Italians works with the last large tournaments. Thus one separated with three following each other world championships (1990,94,98) by penalty shootout out (1990 semi-finals, against Argentina; 1994 final, against Brazil; 1998 quarter finals, against France). Altogether Italy in the five WMs lost only two plays in the regular play time between 1982 and 1998. In the final of the EM 2000 against France, one took 1:1 reconciliation after superior led regular play time only in the fourth minute of the sequel time and lost by Trezeguets golden Goal in the extension. From at the WM 2002 came already in the round of the last sixteen against South Korea, through golden Goal. Was the Italians by the indisponierten arbitrator the own golden Goal unjustified-proves denied and its star Totti, in very doubtful way, the place referred. Already in the previous tournament process altogether four regular gates had remained malfunctioned for them due to wrong decisions of the arbitrator bottom plates. At the EM 2004 separated one ungeschlagen after the Vorrunde, with the two better placed teams in the group.

The Italian national team does not apply owing to her adhering the plate to be usually very defensively adjusted internationally as particularly popular. This image developed above all at present the national coach Ferruccio Valcareggi, end of the 60's, under which the term of the “Catenaccio” was coined/shaped.

Italy plays traditionally in blue national team leotards. Historically this decreases/goes back on the national colors of the Kingdom of Piemont Sardinien and above all its ruler sex, the Savoyer .

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participation of Italy at the soccer world championship (16 times)

1930 in Uruguay	not participated
1934 in Italy	world champion
1938 in France	world champion
1950 in Brazil	Vorrunde
1954 in Switzerland	Vorrunde
1958 in Sweden	do not qualify
1962 in Chile	Vorrunde
1966 in England	Vorrunde
1970 in Mexico	2. Place
1974 in Germany	Vorrunde
1978 in Argentina	4. Place
1982 in Spain	world champion
1986 in Mexico	round of the last sixteen
1990 in Italy	3. Place
1994 in the USA	2. Place
1998 in France	quarter final
2002 in South Korea/Japan	round of the last sixteen
2006 in Germany	*