Team created by a collaborative effort of 27DONI72, Milos, StuartBannigan and gurkenjoe93












Honours:

• FIFA World Cup

Winners (4): 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006
Runners-up (2): 1970, 1994
Third place (1): 1990
Fourth place (1): 1978

• UEFA European Championship

Winners (2): 1968, 2021
Runners-up (2): 2000, 2012
Fourth place (1): 1980
Semi-finals (1): 1988

• UEFA Nations League

Third place (1): 2021

• FIFA Confederations Cup

Third place (1): 2013


COACH: Vittorio POZZO




The best ever Italian players 23-man squad



GOALKEEPERS:

● Dino ZOFF
● Gianluigi BUFFON

DEFENDERS:

● Giacinto FACCHETTI
● Claudio GENTILE
● Gaetano SCIREA
● Giuseppe BERGOMI
● Franco BARESI
● Paolo MALDINI
● Fabio CANNAVARO


MIDFIELDERS:

● Giovanni FERRARI
● Gianni RIVERA
● Sandro MAZZOLA
● Romeo BENETTI
● Giancarlo ANTOGNONI
● Marco TARDELLI
● Andrea PIRLO

FORWARDS:

● Raimundo ORSI
● Giuseppe MEAZZA
● Silvio PIOLA
● Luigi RIVA
● Paolo ROSSI
● Bruno CONTI
● Roberto BAGGIO




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RESERVES:


GOALKEEPERS:

● Gianpiero COMBI
● Walter ZENGA
● Gianluigi DONNARUMMA

DEFENDERS:

● Virginio ROSETTA
● Umberto CALIGARIS
● Eraldo MONZEGLIO
● Tarcisio BURGNICH
● Roberto ROSATO
● Antonio CABRINI
● Alessandro NESTA
● Gianluca ZAMBROTTA
● Giorgio CHIELLINI
● Leonardo BONUCCI

MIDFIELDERS:

● Adolfo BALONCIERI
● Michele ANDREOLO
● Valentino MAZZOLA
● Giacomo BULGARELLI
● Giancarlo DE SISTI
● Franco CAUSIO
● Gabriele ORIALI
● Roberto DONADONI
● Demetrio ALBERTINI
● Daniele DE ROSSI

FORWARDS:

● Angelo SCHIAVIO
● Gino COLAUSSI
● Giampiero BONIPERTI
● Angelo DOMENGHINI
● Francesco GRAZIANI
● Roberto BETTEGA
● Alessandro ALTOBELLI
● Gianluca VIALLI
● Christian VIERI
● Francesco TOTTI

This is a joke right? No one in Germany (even not in Köln) would say that these two keepers were better than Neuer Although I know you hate modern football but you can't be serious if you say that Turek is a better GK than Neuer..

Linked every player in the team:

Michele ANDREOLO to reserves?

Use a spoiler with a list of 11 Honorable Mentions..

More reserves here? Unlikely.

The only logical debate here is the capitano campione del mondo Cannavaro in for the forever injured Nesta.

about standard of serect player is ability>title?
If I'm right, I don't say anything to this team..

This must be the absolute "criteria" regarding AS.

It says all stars not biggest achievements ...

So we have to avoid these shamefull things , with no intention of offense anybody.






Probably Messi will become the best player in history in my opinion , i respect if other think that other player can be the better

Aside from Gattuso with technique aka Benetti and R. Baggio, all of them have won something with the Nazionale, so yes, biggest achivements mean something for this kind of team.



Not the place to comment that, but at least he was honoured with his name on reserves there for becoming the top-scorer of his nation.

Yes mean something but not all neither the amount of matches.

I really fail to see why Rosetta is in the first team despite the fact he only played in the opening game at the 1934 World Cup, if anyone from the 30s should be in the team, it should be Monzeglio or Rava, especially Monzeglio who won 2 World Cups and was in the team of the tournament in 1934. And of course, Cannavaro deserves first team much more, being the captain in 2006 and giving legendary performances the whole tournament, certainly better than Nesta ever played for Italy...

Having Rosetta in the team is like having Alfred Pfaff or Heinz Flohe in the Germany team or Ricardo Bochini in the Argentina team: legendary players, but played basically no part in their countries biggest achievements. And Rosetta is not someone like Baggio who is arguably Italy's greatest attacking player of all time and the best player of his generation. So if someone wants to make a genuine argument as to why Rosetta should be there over Cannavaro, go ahead, but there really is no acceptable reason other than bias...

You answered yourself.

Not exactly, Rosetta has been a great player for Italy but he should be out for another motivation: in modern football he would be sweeper and we have already Baresi and Scirea.
If our criterium is national performance Cannavaro should be in for sure, amazing in 2006 but very good in 1998 (not against Salas ) and in 2000. Nesta was surely better than Cannavaro but he was very unlucky and always injuried so Fabio has reached higher performances than him.

Well of course the main criteria is their perfomance at international level.

And what's this bullshit as "players class"? We are talking about the top NT on the world, not so random poor NT like Venezuela or China where you eventually will bring the most known players to fill the squad.