The Italy national football team represents Italy in international men's football and is run by the Italian Football Federation. Known as the Azzurri, or the blues, after the colour of its shirts, it played its first official match in 1910 and became one of the most successful sides in history. It won the World Cup four times, in 1934 and 1938 under coach Vittorio Pozzo, in 1982 and in 2006, and it also won the European Championship in 1968 and in the delayed Euro 2020 tournament. The team is famed for its defensive organization, a style known as catenaccio. Italy has missed some recent tournaments, including the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Before and after
- 23 March 1910Birth of Akira Kurosawa
- 21 April 1910Death of Mark Twain
- 11 May 1910Establishment of Glacier National Park
- 12 May 1910Birth of Dorothy Hodgkin
- 15 May 1910First match of the Italy men's national association football team
- 27 May 1910Death of Robert Koch
- from 31 May 1910 to 31 May 1961Union of South Africa
- from 1 June 1910 to 14 June 1913Terra Nova Expedition
- from 3 June 1910 to 30 January 1912Amundsen's South Pole expedition
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- 23 June 1894Founding of International Olympic Committee
- from 6 April 1896 to 15 April 1896The first modern Olympic Games open in Athens
- 1903Rise of Bolsheviks
- 1907Rise of scouting
The era
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