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Italy World Cup 2006

Country - Italy
Capital City - Rome
Continent - Europe
Manager - Marcello Lippi
Captain - Fabio Cannavaro
Star Man - Luca Toni

How did they qualify - Italy came out top of their group in this years world cup qualifiers, with a 5 point lead over Norway it was a clear victory which has led the team in to the FIFA World cup 2006, Germany.

Their match against Norway started off very shaky and no sooner had the game started Italy were a goal down, the team managed to step up their game and Rossi was soon to find himself a goal followed by a goal from Luca Toni in the remaining few minutes. This victory over Norway was to secure Italy's place in the finals.

In the running for group 5 were Italy, Norway, Scotland, Slovenia, Belarus and Moldova. Norway also looked set to join Italy in the finals but narrowly missed out when beaten by the Czech republic in the play-offs.

The Italian national football team were formed in 1910 and played their first match against France, held in Milan the team played an outstanding performance and a victory of 6-2 was to be celebrated. Since the team were formed they managed to win the World cup 3 times and have only ever not qualified once back in 1958.

Italy certainly seem to be on top form and look to be tough contenders for this world cup. Luca Toni seems to be a player to watch out for playing a very hard game and having a great eye for a goal which was proved in the teams qualying match against Belarus, winning 4-1 Luca scoring 3 of those 4 goals.

32 teams are set to face each other head to head to fight for that all important first place finish, above is shown a picture of the Italy national team photo and their team badge.

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Team History
First International: Italy 6 - 2 France (Milan, Italy; 15 May 1910)
Largest win: Italy 9 - 0 USA (Brentford, England; 2 August 1948)
Worst defeat: Hungary 7 - 1 Italy (Budapest, Hungary; 6 April 1924)
World Cup
Appearances:		 15 (First in 1934) Best result Winners, 1934, 1938, 1982
European Championship
Appearances:		 6 (First in 1968) Best result Winners, 1968
World Cup Record: 1930 - Did not enter
1934 - Champions
1938 - Champions
1950 - Round 1
1954 - Round 1
1958 - Did not qualify
1962 - Round 1
1966 - Round 1
1970 - Runners-up
1974 - Round 1
1978 - Fourth place
1982 - Champions
1986 - Round 2
1990 - Third place
1994 - Runners-up
1998 - Quarter-finals
2002 - Round 2
2006 - Qualified
Current Notable Players:

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon, Morgan De Sanctis, Angelo Peruzzi, Flavio Roma
Defenders: Andrea Barzagli, Fabio Cannavaro, Giorgio Chiellini, Marco Materazzi, Alessandro Nesta, Massimo Oddo, Cristian Zaccardo, Gianluca Zambrotta
Midfielders: Manuele Blasi, Mauro Camoranesi, Daniele De Rossi, Mauro Esposito, Gennaro Ivan Gattuso, Fabio Grosso, Andrea Pirlo
Forwards: Antonio Cassano, Alessandro Del Piero, Alberto Gilardino, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Luca Toni, Francesco Totti, Christian Vieri

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