Juventus F.C. and the Italian national football team

Italy's set up, with eight Juventus players, before the match against France in 1978 FIFA World Cup at Estadio José María Minella (Mar del Plata, Argentina - June 2nd, 1978).

Juventus is the club that has contributed the most players to the Italian national team in history.^[1] They are the only Italian club that has contributed players to every Italian national teams since the 2nd FIFA World Cup.^[2] Juventus have contributed numerous players to Italy's World Cup campaigns. These successful periods principally have coincided with two golden ages (known as Il Quinquennio d’Oro (The Golden Quinquennium)), from 1931 until 1935, and Il Ciclo Leggendario (The Legendary Cycle), from 1972 to 1986.

Two Juventus players have won the golden boot award at the World Cup with Italy; Paolo Rossi in 1982 and Salvatore Schillaci in 1990. As well as contributing to Italy's World Cup winning sides, Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava represented Italy in the gold medal winning squad at the 1936 Summer Olympics, and Sandro Salvadore, Ernesto Càstano and Giancarlo Bercellino made Italy's 1968 European Football Championship squad.^[3]

Juventus have also contributed to a lesser degree to the national sides of other nations. Zinédine Zidane and captain Didier Deschamps were Juventus players when they won the 1998 World Cup with France, making the total number of Juventus World Cup winners 24 (including 22 for the Italian team since 1934), more than any other club around the world. Three Juventus players have also won the European Football Championship with a nation other than Italy, Luis del Sol won it in 1964 with Spain, while the Frenchmen Michel Platini and Zidane won the competition in 1984 and 2000 respectively.^[4]

List of call-ups of Juventus F.C. players to the Italian national teams

List of call-ups of Juventus F.C. players to the Italian national major teams

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the main national team (or Nazionale A in Italian language) in official matches since 1920.

Christian Abbiati Luigi Allemandi Amauri * Ugo Amoretti Pietro Anastasi Roberto Anzolin Alberto Aquilani Dino Baggio Roberto Baggio Andrea Barzagli Romeo Benetti Giancarlo Bercellino I (EC) Luigi Bertolini (WC) (CEIC) Alberto Bertuccelli Roberto Bettega Carlo Bigatto I Alessandro Birindelli Manuele Blasi Giampiero Boniperti Leonardo Bonucci Felice Borel II (WC) (CEIC) Gianluigi Buffon (WC) Matteo Brighi Antonio Bruna Antonio Cabrini (WC) Umberto Caligaris (WC) (CEIC) Mauro Camoranesi * (WC) Fabio Cannavaro (WC) Fabio Capello Massimo Carrera Pierluigi Casiraghi Ernesto Càstano (EC) Franco Causio Sergio Cervato Renato Cesarini * (CEIC)

Luigi Cevenini III (CEIC) Giorgio Chiellini Umberto Colombo Gianpiero Combi (WC) (CEIC) Antonio Conte Giuseppe Corradi Antonello Cuccureddu Giuseppe Damiani Luigi De Agostini Virginio De Paoli Alessandro Del Piero (WC) Teobaldo Depetrini Angelo Di Livio Marco Di Vaio Flavio Emoli Ciro Ferrara Giovanni Ferrari (WC) Rino Ferrario Pio Ferraris Alfredo Foni O (WC) Andrea Fortunato Giuseppe Furino Roberto Galìa Bruno Garzena Claudio Gentile (WC) Emanuele Giaccherini Giovanni Giacone Sebastian Giovinco Adolfo Gori Giuseppe Grabbi Fabio Grosso Vincenzo Iaquinta Filippo Inzaghi Mark Iuliano Nicola Legrottaglie

Gianfranco Leoncini Attilio Lombardo Sergio Manente Gian Pietro Marchetti Marco Marchionni Claudio Marchisio Giacomo Mari Giancarlo Marocchi Domenico Marocchino Rinaldo Martino Alessandro Matri Giampaolo Menichelli Fabrizio Miccoli Luis Monti * (WC) (CEIC) Antonio Montico Bruno Mora Francesco Morini Marco Motta Ermes Muccinelli Federico Munerati (CEIC) Bruno Nicolè Antonio Nocerino Angelo Ogbonna Raimundo Orsi * (WC) (CEIC) Pablo Daniel Osvaldo * Michele Padovano Raffaele Palladino Carlo Parola Federico Peluso Simone Pepe Angelo Peruzzi Gianluca Pessotto Alberto Piccinini Silvio Piola Andrea Pirlo

Fabio Quagliarella Pietro Rava Olympic football tournament (WC) Fabrizio Ravanelli Eduardo Ricagni * Virginio Rosetta (WC) (CEIC) Paolo Rossi (WC) Sandro Salvadore (EC) Benito Sarti Salvatore Schillaci Gaetano Scirea (WC) Lucidio Sentimenti Aldo Serena Omar Sívori * Luciano Spinosi Pietro Serantoni Gino Stacchini Alessio Tacchinardi Stefano Tacconi Marco Tardelli (WC) Moreno Torricelli Roberto Tricella Giovanni Varglien II Mario Varglien I (WC) Giuseppe Vavassori Giovanni Vecchina Gianluca Vialli Christian Vieri Giovanni Viola Pasquale Vivolo Gianluca Zambrotta (WC) Simone Zaza Gianfranco Zigoni Dino Zoff (WC)

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
Legend:

• (WC) = FIFA World Cup winners during their careers at Juventus
• (EC) = European Football Championship winners during their careers at Juventus
• (O) Olympic football tournament winners during their careers at Juventus
• (CEIC) = Central European International Cup winners during their careers at Juventus
• (*) Oriundi footballers.

As of 3 March 2014.

List of call-ups of Juventus F.C. players to the Italian national olympic teams

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian national olympic team (o Nazionale Under 23) in official matches.

Eugenio Corini Pietro Fanna

Angelo Peruzzi Antonio Nocerino

Roberto Tavola

Vinicio Verza

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 August 2008.

List of call-ups of Juventus F.C. players to the Italian national youth teams

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian national youth teams in official matches.^[5] The Torinese side is the biggest benefactor of the Italian Under 21 and Italian Under 20 teams, two young national teams that have formed the laboratory test and the reservoir of footballers who later would be used for the asbolute team.^[5] Also, Juventus is one of the clubs with one of the most call-ups to the Italian Under-19 team.^[5]

List of call-ups to the Italian Under 21 team

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian Under 21 team in official matches.^[5] La società torinese vanta il primato di convocazioni alla nazionale della categoria.^[5]

Matteo Brighi Giorgio Chiellini Eugenio Corini Renato Buso Morgan De Sanctis Emiliano Moretti Marco Zanchi Angelo Peruzzi Giuseppe Galderisi Massimo Orlando Alessio Tacchinardi Raffaele Palladino

Enzo Maresca Domenico Criscito Pietro Fanna Alessandro Del Piero Gianluca Zambrotta Antonio Nocerino Nicola Caricola Antonio Cabrini Pierluigi Casiraghi Massimo Bonini * Sebastian Giovinco Paolo De Ceglie

Claudio Marchisio Stefano Pioli Roberto Tavola Simone Perrotta Pietro Paolo Virdis Beniamino Vignola Gian Pietro Marchetti Massimo Storgato Gianluca Francesconi Antonello Cuccureddu Cesare Prandelli Luciano Spinosi

Vinicio Verza Fernando Viola Maurizio Iorio Michele Serena Giuseppe Zaniboni Marco Zamboni Roberto Bettega Franco Causio Claudio Gentile Salvatore Schillaci Giuliano Musiello Mark Iuliano

* Massimo Bonini has played in the Italian Under 21 team because the San Marino Football Federation was not officially recognised by UEFA until 1990.

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 March 2008.

List of call-ups to the Italian Under 20 team

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian Under 20 team in official matches.^[5] La società torinese vanta il primato di convocazioni alla nazionale della categoria.^[5]

Daniele Gastaldello Felice Piccolo Simone Bentivoglio Enzo Maresca Andrea Gasbarroni

Matteo Paro Domenico Criscito Matteo Brighi Andrea Masiello Paolo De Ceglie

Marco Gorzegno Sebastian Giovinco Michele Paolucci Riccardo Maniero Giovanni Bartolucci

Raffaele Palladino Domenico Maietta Claudio Marchisio Christian Pasquato

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 March 2008.

List of call-ups to the Italian Under 19 team

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian Under 19 team in official matches.^[5]

Andrea Masiello Rej Volpato Simone Bentivoglio Felice Piccolo Raffaele Palladino

Francesco Volpe Giovanni Bartolucci Domenico Criscito Michele Paolucci

Paolo De Ceglie Luca Marrone Alex Pederzoli Alessandro Grando

Stefano Rondinella Sebastian Giovinco Riccardo Maniero Fausto Rossi

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 March 2008.

List of call-ups to the Italian Under 18 team

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian Under 18 team in official matches.^[5]

Marzio Dan Michele Zanini Nicola Zanini Alessandro Del Piero Marco Pecorari Nicola Cingolani Paolo Chiavaroni Giuseppe Sculli Francesco Scardina

Luigi Giandomenico Fabrizio Cammaratta Alessandro Dal Canto Tomasso Rocchi Marco Rigoni Luigi La Vecchia Alessandro Frara Andrea Gasbarroni Alex Pederzoli

Domenico Maietta Ivano Trotta Sebastian Giovinco Vincenzo Manzo Luigi Sartor Giuseppe Pingitore Salvatore Papa Simone Bentivoglio Claudio Scarzanella

Piero Panzanaro Paolo Sirotti Massimiliano Zazzetta Andrea Masiello Cristian Pasquato Piergiuseppe Marinato Salvatore D'Elia Riccardo Maniero

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 March 2008.

List of call-ups to the Italian Under 17 team

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian Under 17 team in official matches.^[5]

Ivan Mignano

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 March 2008.

List of call-ups to the Italian Under 16-15 team

Below is a list of all Juventus F.C. players to have played in the Italian Under 16 & 15 teams in official matches.^[5]

Simone Bentivoglio Domenico Maietta Salvatore Papa Giuseppe Sculli Giovanni Barbaro Luca Folegani Pietro Famiano

Fabio Bracco Marco Ferrati Alberto Balagna Andrea Gentile Roberto Curcio Fabio Rapetti

Marzio Dan Luigi Giandomenico Luca Pellegrini Fabio Barison Diego Carignano Diego Lorusso

Vito Redavid Felice Piccolo Orlando Urbano Nicola Avitabile Gianni Alberto Ivan Mignano

Ivan Mignano has played in the Italian Under 16 team ^[6].

Source: (Italian) www.figc.it
As of 10 March 2008.

Footnotes and references

1. "Italian national team: J-L Italian club profiles". Italian national team records & statistics. Retrieved November 2006.
2. "Juve players at the World Cup". juventus.com. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2006.
3. "European Championship 1968 - Details Final Tournament". RSSSF.com. 8 June 2007.
4. "European Championship". RSSSF.com. 8 June 2007.
5. Until 10 March 2008 48 young Juventus footballers -somebody from its own youth sector- have played at Italian national U-21 team, 19 at Italian national U-20 team, more than another Italian club in both cases, and another 35 at Italian national U-18 team in official matches; according to "Italian Club: National team in figures - the call-ups to the Italian national football team (Major, Olympic and Under) by clubs". FIGC Official Website. Retrieved 2007-08-15. See also "National team in figures - the call-ups to Italy (details)" (in Italian). FIGC Official Website. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
6. "Italian national Under 16 team: the call-ups for a club" (in Italian). FIGC Official Website. Retrieved 2008-05-08.

Bibliography

• Giacone, Gianni (1993). Juve Azzurri - I bianconeri che hanno fatto grande la Nazionale (in Italian). Hurrà Juventus - Fabbri Editori.
• Tavella, Renato (2001). Dizionario della grande Juventus. Dalle origini ai nostri giorni (in Italian). Newton Compton. ISBN 88-8289-639-0.

See also

• Italian national football team
• Italian national squads in World and European championships
• List of footballers with 100 or more caps
• FIFA World Cup-winning players

External links

(Italian) National team in figures: the call-ups to all Italian national football teams (Major, Olympic and Under) by clubs (research in the FIGC official website)