Italy Team Profile World Cup 2010

The Italy national football team represents Italy in international football competition and is controlled by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC). 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 in the history of the World Cup having won four titles (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), just one fewer than Brazil. To this tally they can add one European championship (1968), one Olympic football tournament (1936) and two (defunct) Central European International Cups.

The traditional colour of the national team (as well as all Italian teams and athletes) is azure blue (azzurro, in Italian), due to the "Azzurro Savoia" (Savoy Blue), the colour traditionally linked to the royal dynasty which unified Italy in 1861, and maintained in the official standard of the President of the Italian Republic.

Italy Team Profile Matches Road to 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
06/09/08 21:45Larnaca CyprusCyprus1:2 (1:1)ItalyItaly
10/09/08 20:50Udine ItalyItaly2:0 (1:0)GeorgiaGeorgia
11/10/08 21:15Sofia BulgariaBulgaria0:0ItalyItaly
15/10/08 20:50Lecce ItalyItaly2:1 (2:1)MontenegroMontenegro
28/03/09 20:45Podgorica MontenegroMontenegro0:2 (0:1)ItalyItaly
01/04/09 20:50Bari ItalyItaly1:1 (1:0)Republic of IrelandRepublic of Ireland
05/09/09 22:00Tbilisi GeorgiaGeorgia0:2 (0:0)ItalyItaly
09/09/09 20:50Turin ItalyItaly2:0 (2:0)BulgariaBulgaria
10/10/09 20:00Dublin Republic of IrelandRepublic of Ireland2:2 (1:1)ItalyItaly
14/10/09 20:00Parma ItalyItaly3:2 (0:1)CyprusCyprus


Italy team last standing position 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifying


TeamMPWDLGFGAPts
ItalyItaly
1073018724
Republic of IrelandRepublic of Ireland1046012818
BulgariaBulgaria10352171314
CyprusCyprus1023514169
MontenegroMontenegro101639149
GeorgiaGeorgia100377193


Italy Team Record in FIFA World Cup
Year Round Position GP W D L GS GA
Uruguay 1930 Did not enter - - - - - - -
Italy 1934 Champions 1 5 4 1 0 11 3
France 1938 Champions 1 4 4 0 0 11 5
Brazil 1950 Round 1 7 2 1 0 1 4 3
Switzerland 1954 Round 1 10 3 1 0 2 6 7
Sweden 1958 Did not qualify - - - - - - -
Chile 1962 Round 1 9 3 1 1 1 3 2
England 1966 Round 1 9 3 1 0 2 2 2
Mexico 1970 Runner-up 2 6 3 2 1 10 8
West Germany 1974 Round 1 10 3 1 1 1 5 4
Argentina 1978 Fourth place 4 7 4 1 2 9 6
Spain 1982 Champions 1 7 4 3 0 12 6
Mexico 1986 Round of 16 11 4 1 2 1 5 6
Italy 1990 Third place 3 7 6 1 0 10 2
United States 1994 Runner-up 2 7 4 2 1 8 5
France 1998 Quarter-finals 5 5 3 2 0 8 3
South KoreaJapan 2002 Round of 16 12 4 1 1 2 5 5
Germany 2006 Champions 1 7 5 2 0 12 2
South Africa 2010 Qualified - - - - - - -
Total 17/19 4 Titles 77 44 19 14 122 69


 

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