Italy Soccer Team - The Azzurri Team

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Italy soccer team or most commonly known the Azzurri team is one of the best soccer team in FIFA world cup history. Team members are; Alessandro Costacurta, Alessandro Del Piero, Alessandro Nesta, Christian Vieri,Dino Zoff, Franco Baresi, Francesco Totti, Gianni Rivera, Gianfranco Zola, Giampiero Boniperti, Gianluigi Buffon, Giancinto Facchetti, Giuseppe Bergomi, Giuseppe Meazza, Gigi Riva, Paolo Maldini, Paolo Rossi, Roberto Baggio, Sandro Mazzola, Silvio Piola, and last but not the list Valentino Mazzola.

Azzurri team means "azure" or blue the traditional color of the Italian team. It has a connection to the Italian dynasty since 1861when Italy was unified. Azzurri marked to the people of Italy and used it as nickname of Italian National football team.

Italy Soccer Team built to world cup history as one the successful football team in the world. They won the title at 1934, 1938, 1982 and the latest was 2006 in world cup competition. As of latest ranking of FIFA, Italy at 3rd place, Argentina has its constantly on top, Brazil at 2nd and Spain at its 4th place.

In 1970 and 1994 they become the runner-up, third place in 1990 and fourth placer at year 1978 in FIFA world cup History.

Italian soccer fans show their extreme support to the Azzurri team. They have the Azzurro shirt, they have azzurri clubs and azzurri web pages where you will found out all you want to know about the team.

For 2010 World Cup which will be held at South Africa, Italy is the current World Champions. Italy strongly believes that they will make it again and will give their best to win the Cup.

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