Italian Soccer

You don't need to be a soccer specialist to understand why Italian soccer is amongst the most respected in the entire World.

On national team level, the Italy squad won 4 World Cups, 1 less than record-holders Brazil and also managed to win 1 European Championship, which is almost as valuable for squads coming from the Old Continent as a World Cup.

On club level, Italian soccer is equally successful, the Italian Serie A championship being considered the toughest in the World, closely followed by the Spanish and English ones.

So what makes Italy soccer so great? You can find more details about the above in this section of the site with short previews for each article, to get you in a reading mood.

Italy's Soccer Players
Ever since a tender age, Italian soccer schools prepare their pupils to face any tactical challenge they could encounter later on in their career. Focusing on tactics and defensive plays might not dish out the most spectacular soccer in the World, but it definitely creates one of the most pragmatic around.

For most Italy's soccer players, a 1-0 win is the perfect victory. Maybe that's why some of the most famous soccer players in Italy are defenders, such as Dino Zoff (actually he’s a goalkeeper, but he’s still a defensive player), Franco Baresi or Paolo Maldini. Click here to read more...

Italian national Soccer Team
With Brazil having an impressive number of World Cup wins (five), the Italian team only comes in second place, with four World Cups. However, they also managed to win the European Cup in 1968, which a lot of people think is at least as valuable as a World Cup. All in all, despite having a rough history, the Italian team proved to have nerves of steel, as it went on through every problem and came back to the top each time.

The Italian national soccer team spirit was shown several times, but probably the two most visible examples are recovering from the Torino tragedy in 1949, when 10 out of 11 of the national team's starting lineup were killed in a plane crash, or more recently, winning the 2006 World Cup While a match-fixing-scandal affair in the Italian league supplied news headlines that shook the world of soccer (non of the players were involved). Click here to read more...

History of Italian Soccer
The starting point of soccer in Italy occurred a few decades later than its English or Scottish counterparts, but it was definitely one of the most impressive debuts, as they managed to win the first two World Cups they played in (1934 and 1938, having missed the 1930 World Cup).

With two more World Cups in their pockets (1982 and 2006) and a European Cup (1968) it doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that Italy is one of the most successful countries in the World from a soccer perspective, despite having a shorter history with the game.
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