Italian football champions
Football is the most popular sport in Italy and the Italian football
team has been honored with the football world cup for four times as on
1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006. Italian football team is known as Azzurri. Azzurri is one of the great team and they play very well. Italy is now
the title holder as Italy’s club sides have won 27 major European
trophies which make them the most successful and well played football
nation in Europe. In 1898, the Federation Italienne du Football (FIF -
FIGC) was formed after the first national competition organized by the
Italian federation of gymnastics and won by the S. undines G.S team from
Udine and after this, the first national championship was organized,
with regional tournaments and playoffs.
This is considered to be the first national football championship and
was won by Genoa. In addition to all this, Spain and Italy are the
European football champions. Taking about the last season i.e.2008, Last
season’s Champions League winners and Spanish La Liga Champions
Barcelona were playing Italian Champions and one of the tournaments’s
fancied cubs International. The Italian football champions have been
wonderfully playing and have been finalists in 2 world cups, 1 European
championship, 2 bronze medals at Olympic Games, 2 European championship
U21, 4 European championship u18, 3 European championship u16, 2 summer
universiades and last but not the least 4 world military championships.
Well, all these victory show that the Italian footballers are born
champions and true spirit.
Now coming towards the series- A championship, the series A
championship title is referred to as the Scudetto which is a small
shield, because the winning team will wear a small coat of arms with the
Italian flag on their jersey in the following season. According to one
of the reports as on 6, October, 2009, the most successful league club
is Juventus F.C. with over 25 championships, followed by A.C. Milan,
Internazionale Milano, and Genoa C&FC. The club is allowed to wear a
golden star above their club badge for every ten titles won; so Juventus
has two stars, while Milan and Internazionale have one star each. Well,
Series A was initiated in 1929-30 and from 1898 to 1929; Italian soccer
was played in regional groups where "Calcio Italiano" means soccer in
Italian and "Scudetto" means small shield.
In the 1934, FIFA world cup, which was the second most football world
cup staged at that time was hosted by Italy from 27 May to 10 June and
the best part of all is that Italy was chosen as hosts by FIFA the
Berlin congress of October 1932. In order to take part the team would
have to qualify as it was the first World Cup. In addition, 32 nations
entered the competition, and after the qualification 16 teams
participated in the finals tournament. After all this, Italy beating
Czechoslovakia in the final by 2-1 and became the second World Cup
champions.
According to the place where the tournament took place, the
tournament was held after cup system and Eight European teams moved
forward to the quarter finals—Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Italy won the world cup and won
all titles the same way and enjoyed victory again in 1938, then in 1982
and in 2006.well, looking towards the latest victory of Azzurri’s , the
2006 FIFA world cup was the 18th instance of the FIFA world cup and was
held in Germany from 9th June to 9th July, 2006. Italy won the
tournament by defeating France by 5-3 in a penalty shootout in the
final.
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