Italy National Football Team - Euro 2008

Azzurri
Italy National Football Team
in
Euro 2008

Background

The Italian national football team is controlled by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC) and represents Italy in international football competition. They are the current World Champions, having won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Italy is among the top teams in international football and the second most successful national team having won four World Cups (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), just one fewer than Brazil. To this tally they can add one European championship (1968), two Central European International Cup and one Olympic Gold Medal (1936).

The traditional colour of the national team (as well as all Italian teams and athletes, except for motor sports which uses red) is azure blue (azzurro, in Italian), due to the "Azzurro Savoia" (Savoy Blue), the colour traditionally linked to the dynasty which unified Italy in 1860. Therefore national team members are nicknamed Azzurri.

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Italy in Euro 2008

Group C : Netherlands / Italy / Romania /France

Fixtures

• 09/06/2008 v Netherlands 20:45
• 13/06/2008 v Romania 18:00
• 17/06/2008 v France 20:45

Squads

Goalkeepers
* 1 Gianluigi Buffon
* 14 Marco Amelia
* 17 Morgan De Sanctis

Defenders
* 2 Christian Panucci
* 3 Fabio Grosso
* 4 Giorgio Chiellini
* 5 Alessandro Gamberini
* 6 Andrea Barzagli
* 19 Gianluca Zambrotta
* 23 Marco Materazzi

Midfielders
* 8 Gennaro Gattuso
* 10 Daniele De Rossi
* 13 Massimo Ambrosini
* 16 Mauro Camoranesi
* 20 Simone Perrotta
* 21 Andrea Pirlo
* 22 Alberto Aquilani

Forwards
* 7 Alessandro Del Piero
* 9 Luca Toni
* 11 Antonio Di Natale
* 12 Marco Borriello
* 15 Fabio Quagliarella
* 18 Antonio Cassano