ITALY

1930 - Uruguay
Didn't partecipate

1938 - France
Italy-Norway 2-1
Italy-France 3-1
Italy-Brazil 2-1
Italy-Hungary 4-2

1954 - Switzerland
Italy-Switzerland 1-2
Italy-Belgium 4-1
Italy-Switzerland 1-4

1962 - Chile
Italy-West Germany 0-0
Italy-Chile 0-2
Italy-Switzerland 3-0

1970 - Mexico
Italy-Sweden 1-0
Italy-Uruguay 0-0
Italy-Israel 0-0
Italy-Mexico 4-1
Italy-West Germany 4-3
Italy-Brazil 1-4

1978 - Argentina
Italy-France 2-1
Italy-Hungary 3-1
Italy-Argentina 1-0
Italy-West Germany 0-0
Italy-Austria 1-0
Italy-Holland 1-2
Italy-Brazil 1-2

1986 - Mexico
Italy-Bulgaria 1-1
Italy-Argentina 1-1
Italy-South Korea 3-2
Italy-France 0-2

1994 - United States
Italy-Ireland 0-1
Italy-Norway 1-0
Italy-Mexico 1-1
Italy-Nigeria 2-1
Italy-Spain 2-1
Italy-Bulgaria 2-1
Italy-Brazil 2-3 (a.p.)

1934 - Italy
Italy-United States 7-1
Italy-Spain 1-1
Italy-Spain 1-0
Italy-Austria 1-0
Italy-Czechoslovakia 2-1

1950 - Brazil
Italy-Sweden 2-3
Italy-Paraguay 2-0

1958 - Sweden
Didn't qualify

1966 - England
Italy-Chile 2-0
Italy-Soviet Union 0-1
Italy-North Korea 0-1

1974 - West Germany
Italy-Haiti 3-1
Italy-Argentina 1-1
Italy-Poland 1-2

1982 - Spain
Italy-Poland 0-0
Italy-Peru 1-1
Italy-Cameroon 1-1
Italy-Argentina 2-1
Italy-Brazil 3-2
Italy-Poland 2-0
Italy-West Germany 3-1

1990 - Italy
Italy-Austria 1-0
Italy-United States 1-0
Italy-Czechoslovakia 2-0
Italy-Uruguay 2-0
Italy-Ireland 1-0
Italy-Argentina 3-4 (a.p.)
Italy-England 2-1

1998 - France
Italy-Chile 2-2
Italy-Cameroon 3-0
Italy-Austria 2-1
Italy-Norway 1-0
Italy-France 3-4 (a.p)

Italy - Hungary 1 - 0
Lithuania - Italy 0 - 0
Georgia - Italy 1 - 2
Italy - Lithuania 4 - 0
Romania - Italy 0 - 2
Italy - Georgia 2 - 0
Italy - Romania 3 - 0
Hungary - Italy 2 - 2

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STATISTICS
Played 66
Won 38
Drawn 16
Lost 12
Goals for 105
Goals against 62
Points 92
All time Table 3rd

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TEAM RECORDS
Biggest victory:
7-1 vs United States in 1934.
Biggest defeat:
1-4 vs Switzerland in 1954 and 1-4 vs Brazil in 1970.
Overall topscorer:
Paolo Rossi and Roberto Baggio, 9 goals.
Most appearances:
Paolo Maldini, 19
Hosted the World Cup:
1934 and 1990


No world cup for Juventus midfielder Gianluca Pessotto who was onjured in the friendly match against England.

No World cup for the 35 years old Roberto Baggio: although he was claimed as a decisive player by italian "Tifosi", Coach Trapattoni decided to leave him at home.

No world cup for Parma forward Marco Di Vaio, one of the best scorers of the season.

Italy National Team has a strong defence, probably the best defence of all participating teams.
The offensive play is based on the performances of the three superstars of the clubs who dominated the season. Vieri and Del Piero could score a lot thanks to the assist man of Roma Francesco Totti.

The problems regardless the midfielder's line suggest us to say that Italy is not so strong as France and Argentina, but could win the title, if Totti and Del Piero will be at the top of their condition.

In the last edition of World Cup of Football, Italy stopped the run to the dream in quarter final. Opposed to France, Italy of Coach Cesare Maldini showed a great defensive organisation, but was eliminated after some useless extratime, in the final penalty series.

In the USA, in 1994, Italy was managed by Arrigo Sacchi. Italy, with an unusual offensive style of play, thanks to his most talented player, Roberto Baggio, went into final against Brazil. Brazil won the final in the penalties series. It was Roberto Baggio to do the decisive mistake.

In Italy, in 1990, Italy was conducted to quarter finals by Azeglio Vicini, opposed to Argentina, Italy loss after the penalty series.
The team trained from Vicini was probably the most spectacular italian national team since the victory in 1982.

We can say the only way to eliminate Italy, is to italians to penalty's series, where they seems to be really unlucky.