Sports freak youths in Italy is quite fond of playing soccer . But soccer is not only a leisure game for them, rather it is one of the serious most contemporary games of Italy that has been representing the states national football team worldwide from a long time. In recent past Italy's national soccer team reached 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany as the fifth group of Europe football team Zone.
In Italy, soccer is one of the most popular sports that has leaded the state internationally and also brought them Football World Cups for four times.
Italy national soccer team has so-far pocketed FIFA World Cup for three times since 1934 again in 1938 and last but not the least at 1982 , it has also a experienced the honor of and winning one European championship in 1968.
Of a number of soccer playing team of the nation Italy's national football team has been the most successful of all. The Italy football is named as ‘Azzurri' after the Italian word ‘Azzurro' which means sky, because the color of Italian foot team jersey is also sky-blue.
Italy national soccer playing team takes quite a pride for having some of the legendary performers of world footballs such as
- Franco Baresi
- Paolo Maldini
- Roberto Baggio
- Dino Zoff
- Gianni Rivera
During the FIFA World Cup held in 2002 against South Korea Italian Soccer Team could not sustain in the race and had to had to leave the field after 16 th round defeated by the Korean team, it was a big shock for the Italian soccer team also was a great lesson in their football history.
