(Club Shirt - White Banded, White shirt with a red diagonal band), Virgiliani
(Virgilians - After the Classical Roman Poet Virgilius who was born in the village of Andes, near Mantova).
HISTORY:Founded in March 1911 as 'Associazione Mantovana del Calcio' after the merger of 'Vis et Virtus' and 'Gruppo del Calcio' (both founded in 1907). In 1919, at the end of WW I, the name was changed to 'Associazione Calcio Mantova'. The name was changed four times more along the years: in 1934 to 'Mantova Sportiva', in 1945, at the end of WW II returned to 'Associazione Calcio Mantova', in 1956 to 'Associazione Calcio Ozo Mantova' in view of the sponsorship by 'Ozo Oil Refinery' and in 1961 returned once again to 'Associazione Calcio Mantova'. The club was declared bankrupt in 1983 and in 1994 but on both occasions it was re-founded, in 1983 as 'Nuova Associazione Calcio Mantova' and in 1994 as 'Mantova Calcio 1994', taking over in the process the club 'Associazione Calcio Porto '78'. In 2002 the club returned yet again to the name 'Associazione Calcio Mantova', but in 2010 it was declared bankrupt for the third time but again was immediately re-founded as 'Mantova Football Club'. In 2017 the club went bankrupt for the fourth time but was re-founded yet again under the name 'Mantova 1911 Società Sportiva Dilettantistica' In 2020 the current name was adapted.
HONOURS: Nil.
CITY: Mantova
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 3 GAMES: 9 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 2
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
SCORERS
2 SORMANI Angelo B.
CAPTAINS
No Mantova player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Angelo B. SORMANI
First player in Azzurro
Most games in Azzurro
Only scorer in Azzurro
MESSINA
CITY: Messina
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2GAMES: 3SCORERS: 0GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
2 COPPOLA Carmine - M, 2005(d)
1 PARISI Alessandro - D, 2004(d)
SCORERS
No Messina player ever scored in Azzurro
Alessandro PARISI
First player in Azzurro
Carmine COPPOLA
Most games in Azzurro
METRO STARS NY
FULL NAME: New York Red Bulls
NICKNAMES: Reds (Club Colours), Metro Reds (Club name and
colours).
HISTORY:Founded in October 1994 as 'Empire Soccer Club' but a year later the name was changed to 'MetroStars' with reference to the media company 'Metromedia' owned by one of the founders John Kluge. The name included the names 'New York' or New Jersey' in 1996 during the inaugural season of the 'Major League Soccer' (MLS), the main football league in the USA, of which the club was one of the founder members. On the 9 March 2006 the name was changed to 'New York Red Bulls' after a change in ownership.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Supporters' Shield, 3 - 2013, 2015, 2018
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:La Manga Cup, 1 - 2004.
CITY: New Jersey
(USA)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 4 SCORERS: 0 GOALS: 0
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
4 DONADONI Roberto - M, 1996
Roberto DONADONI
Only player in Azzurro
MIDDLESBROUGH
PLAYERS
6 RAVANELLI Fabrizio - A, 1996
1 MACCARONE Massimo - A, 2002
SCORERS
3 RAVANELLI Fabrizio
CAPTAINS
No Middlesbrough player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Mascot - Canaries, due to their yellow shirt colours like the coat of the Canary
bird), Geminiani (Geminians - After the 4th century Christian Bishop of Modena,
Saint Gimignano).
HISTORY:Founded on the 5 April 1912 as 'Modena Football Club' after
the merger of 'Associazione Studentesca del Calcio' (founded in 1910) and ' Audax Foot Ball Club' (founded in 1912). In 1935, due to a law by the fascist government that outlawed non-Italian words in titles, the name was changed to 'Modena Calcio' and in 1944 to 'Gruppo Sportivo Modena'. After WW II, in 1945, the name returned to 'Modena Football Club'. In 1957 the club had various financial difficulties, but it was saved by the sponsorship of the lubrificant company 'Zenit' and the name was changed to 'Zenit Modena Football Club'. But this lasted until 1959 when the club returned again to it's original name 'Modena Football Club'. In 2017 the club was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded as 'Pro Modena Società Sportiva Dilettantistica'. However, the name was again changed twice, in 2018 to 'Modena Football Club 2018 Società Sportiva Dilettantistica' and in 2019 to the current name.
NATIONAL HONOURS: Stella d'Argento al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1989.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS: Anglo-Italian Cup, 2 - 1981, 1982.
CITY: Modena
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 7 GAMES: 21 SCORERS: 2 GOALS: 7
CAPTAINS: 1 CAPTAINED GAMES: 2
SCORERS
5 PERNIGO Francesco
2 FORLIVESI Giuseppe
CAPTAINS
2 NERI Maino
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BONFANTI Nicholas - A
CITTADINI Giorgio - D
PANADA Simone - M
SCALTRITI Bonifacio - M
Giuseppe FORLIVESI
First player in Azzurro
Most games in Azzurro
First goal in Azzurro
MILAN
FULL NAME: Associazione Calcio Milan
NICKNAMES: Rossoneri (Club Colours - Red-Blacks), Il Diavolo (Club
Mascot - The Devil), Casciavit (Screwdriver - Referring to the club's working
class fan base).
HISTORY: Founded on the 13 December 1899 as 'Milan Cricket and
Football Club' by a group of Italian and English men at the Hotel Du Nord e des Anglais (Hotel of the English and the North). In 1908 a group of dissident members left the club and founded the 'Football Club Internazionale', today's rivals 'Inter', after the club decided to ban non-Italian players from becoming members. In 1919 they changed the name to 'Milan Football Club' and in 1936 to 'Milan Associazione Sportiva'. But in 1939 the name had to be changed again, this time to 'Associazione Calcio Milano' due to a law by the fascist government that outlawed non-Italian words in titles. After WW II, in 1945, the word 'Milan' returned in the name instead of 'Milano' to 'Associazione Calcio Milan' , but in 1962 the name was changed to 'Milan Associazione Calcio'. In 2003 the name returned to 'Associazione Calcio Milan'.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS: UEFA Champions League, 7 - 1963, 1969, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007.UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 2 - 1968, 1973. UEFA Super Cup, 5 - 1989, 1990, 1994, 2003, 2007.
Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 4 - 1969, 1989, 1990, 2007. Mitropa Cup, 1 - 1981/82. Coppa Latina, 2 - 1951, 1956. Mondialito, 1 - 1987.
CITY: Milano
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 105 GAMES: 1437 SCORERS: 37 GOALS: 127
CAPTAINS: 17 CAPTAINED GAMES: 151
PLAYERS
126 MALDINI Paolo - D, 1988(d)
81 BARESI Franco - D, 1982(d)
79 ALBERTINI Demetrio - M, 1991(d)
74 PIRLO Andrea - M, 2002(d)
73 GATTUSO Gennaro Ivan - M, 2000(d)
60 RIVERA Gianni - M, 1962(d)
59 COSTACURTA Alessandro - D, 1991(d)
59 DONADONI Roberto - M, 1986(d)
35 AMBROSINI Massimo - M, 1999(d)
33 COLLOVATI Fulvio - D, 1979(d)
33 DONNARUMMA Gianluigi - G, 2016(d)
31 DE SCIGLIO Mattia - D, 2013(d)
31 NESTA Alessandro - D, 2002
29 BENETTI Romeo - M, 1971(d)
29 MONTOLIVO Riccardo - M, 2012
25 INZAGHI Filippo - A, 2001
23 ROSATO Roberto - D, 1967
23 ZAMBROTTA Gian Luca - D, 2008
22 ABATE Ignazio - D, 2011 (d)
19 GILARDINO Alberto - A, 2005
17 ANNOVAZZI Carlo - M, 1947(d)
17 BALOTELLI Mario B. - A, 2013
17 LODETTI Giovanni - M, 1964(d)
17 TRAPATTONI Giovanni - M, 1960(d)
15 CASSANO Antonio - A, 2011
14 MALDINI Cesare - D, 1960(d)
14 TOGNON Omero - M, 1949(d)
13 ANCELOTTI Carlo - M, 1987
13 BONAVENTURA Giacomo - M, 2014
13 EL SHAARAWY Stephan - A, 2012(d)
13 FRIGNANI Amleto - A, 1952(d)
13 PRATI Pierino - A, 1968(d)
12 DE VECCHI Renzo - D, 1910(d)
12 ERANIO Stefano - M, 1992
12 ROMAGNOLI Alessio - D, 2016(d)
11 TONALI Sandro - M, 2020
10 BONUCCI Leonardo - D, 2017
10 MALDERA Aldo - D, 1976(d)
10 MORA Bruno - M, 1962
9 MASSARO Daniele - A, 1994
9 NOCERINO Antonio - M, 2011
9 ODDO Massimo - D, 2007
8 CARAPELLESE Riccardo - A, 1947(d)
8 CEVENINI Aldo - A, 1910(d)
8 COCO Francesco - D, 2000(d)
8 SALVADORE Sandro - D, 1960(d)
7 CALABRIA Davide - D, 2020(d)
7 TASSOTTI Mauro - D, 1992(d)
6 ALTAFINI Jose -A, 1961(d)(o)
6 ANTONELLI Luca - D, 2015
6 EVANI Alberico - M, 1991(d)
6 LENTINI Gianluigi - M, 1992
6 LOVATI Cesare - M, 1920(d)
6 PANCARO Giuseppe - D, 2003
5 BONERA Daniele - D, 2007
5 CAPELLO Fabio - M, 1976
5 GALLI Carlo - A, 1957
5 RADICE Luigi - D, 1962(d)
4 AQUILANI Alberto - M, 2011
4 BATTISTINI Sergio - M, 1984(d)
4 BEAN Gastone - A, 1957(d)
4 BUFFON Lorenzo - G, 1958(d)
4 FLORENZI Alessandro - D, 2021
4 PANUCCI Christian - D, 1994(d)
4 SABADINI Giuseppe - D, 1973(d)
4 SCHIAFFINO Juan A. - M, 1954(d)(o)
4 SIMONE Marco - A, 1992(d)
4 VIERI Christian - A, 2005
3 BERGAMASCHI Mario - M, 1954(d)
3 BURINI Renzo - M, 1951(d)
3 FONTANA Alfio - M, 1957(d)
3 MAGNOZZI Mario - M, 1932
3 SILVESTRI Arturo - D, 1951(d)
3 TRERE' Attilio - M, 1913
3 ZECCHINI Luciano - D, 1974(d)
2 ABBIATI Christian - G, 2003(d)
2 ANQUILLETTI Angelo - D, 1969(d)
2 BAGGIO Roberto - M, 1995
2 BERTOLACCI Andrea - M, 2015
2 BOFFI Aldo - A, 1938(d)
2 BONETTI Dario - D, 1986(d)
2 BORRIELLO Marco - A, 2010
2 BURIANI Ruben - M, 1980(d)
2 CAPRA Egidio - M, 1937(d)
2 CARRER Gustavo - M, 1911(d)
2 CHIARUGI Luciano - A, 1974
2 GROSSO Pietro -M, 1951(d)
2 LANA Pietro - M, 1910(d)
2 MALATRASI Saul - D, 1969
2 POBEGA Tommaso - M, 2022
2 POLI Andrea - M, 2013
2 RIZZI Giuseppe - M, 1911
2 ROSSI Paolo - A, 1986
2 TREBBI Mario - D, 1961(d)
1 BONOMI Andrea - D, 1951(d)
1 BROCCHI Cristian - M, 2006(d)
1 CALDARA Mattia - D, 2018
1 CONTI Andrea - D, 2017(d)
1 CUTRONE Patrick - A, 2018(d)
1 DAVID Mario - M, 1962
1 GHEZZI Giorgio - G, 1961
1 NOVELLINO Walter A. - A, 1978(d)
1 PAZZINI Giampaolo - A, 2012
1 RICAGNI Eduardo - M, 1955(o)
1 SALA Marco - D, 1912(d)
1 SGARBI Abdon - M, 1929(d)
Aldo
CEVENINI
First player in Azzurro
SCORERS
14 RIVERA Gianni
10 INZAGHI Filippo
9 PIRLO Andrea
8 BALOTELLI Mario B.
7 CARAPELLESE Riccardo
7 GILARDINO Alberto
7 MALDINI Paolo
7 PRATI Pierino
6 FRIGNANI Amleto
5 ALTAFINI Jose
5 CASSANO Antonio
5 DONADONI Roberto
3 ALBERTINI Demetrio
3 COLLOVATI Fulvio
3 ERANIO Stefano
3 LANA Pietro
2 COSTACURTA Alessandro
2 LODETTI Giovanni
2 MORA Bruno
2 ROMAGNOLI Alessio
1 ABATE Ignazio
1 BAGGIO Roberto
1 BARESI Franco
1 BATTISTINI Sergio
1 BONUCCI Leonardo
1 BURINI Renzo
1 CARRER Gustavo
1 CEVENINI Aldo
1 EL SHAARAWY Stephan
1 GALLI Carlo
1 GATTUSO Gennaro Ivan
1 MAGNOZZI Mario
1 MASSARO Daniele
1 MONTOLIVO Riccardo
1 PANUCCI Christian
1 TRAPATTONI Giovanni
1 VIERI Christian
CAPTAINS
74 MALDINI Paolo
31 BARESI Franco
6 ALBERTINI Demetrio
6 ANNOVAZZI Carlo
6 MALDINI Cesare
4 PIRLO Andrea
4 RIVERA Gianni
3 BONUCCI Leonardo
3 COSTACURTA Alessandro
3 NESTA Alessandro
2 CARAPELLESE Riccardo
2 GATTUSO Gennaro Ivan
2 MONTOLIVO Riccardo
2 ZAMBROTTA Gian Luca
1 AMBROSINI Massimo
1 CASSANO Antonio
1 FLORENZI Alessandro
UNUSED CALL-UPS
ACERBI Francesco - D
ALBERTOSI Enrico - G
ANTONINI Luca - D
ARCARI Pietro Sante - A
BELLANOVA Raoul - D
BIGON Alberto - M
BONIZZONI Giuseppe - D
CERCI Alessio - M
COMPIANI Luigi A. - G
DESPLANCHES Sebastiano - G
GABBIA Matteo - D
GALDERISI Giuseppe - A
GALLI Filippo - D
LAPADULA Gianluca - A(o)
LOCATELLI Manuel - M
MALDINI Daniel - A
MORETTI Giovanni - M
NASTI Marco - A
PASTORE Pietro - A
PLIZZARI Alessandro - G
ROSSI Sebastiano - G
SALA Luigi - D
MONACO
FULL NAME: Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club
NICKNAMES:Les Rouge et Blanc (Club Colours - The Red and
Whites), Les Monégasques - (The People from Monaco), Le Rocher
(The Rock - The nickname of old central Monaco, the highest point in the
Principality of Monaco)
HISTORY:Founded on the 23 August 1924 through the merger of five clubs - 'Swimming Club', 'Monaco Sports', 'A.S. Beausoleil', 'Étoile de Monaco' and 'Riviera A.C.' with the current name.
French League Cup, 1 - 2003. French Super Cup (Trophée des Champions), 4 - 1961, 1985, 1997, 2000. Coppa Charles Drago,1 - 1961.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:Coppa delle Alpi, 3 - 1979, 1983, 1984.
CITY: Monaco
(France)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 3 GAMES: 8 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 1
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
4 EL SHAARAWY Stephan - A, 2015
3 ROMA Flavio - G, 2005(d)
1 PELLEGRI Pietro - A, 2020(d)
SCORERS
1 EL SHAARAWY Stephan
Flavio
ROMA
First player in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Monaco player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
VIERI Christian - A
PLAYERS
6 SORMANI Angelo B. - A, 1962(d)(o)
2 NEGRI William - G, 1962(d)
1 DI GIACOMO Beniamino - A, 1964(d)
SCORERS
No Metro Stars NY player ever scored in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Metro Stars NY player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Pietro
LANA
First player in Azzurro
First goal in Azzurro
CAPTAINS
No Messina player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
STORARI Marco - G
AZZURRO RECORDS: The first non-Italian Club to give a player to the Italian National team. Roberto DONADONI was the first Azzurro player to play in Azzurro from a foreign club.
William NEGRI
Paolo MALDINI
Most games in Azzurro
Most captain in Azzurro
Gianni RIVERA
Most goals in Azzurro
Franco BARESI
Demetrio ALBERTINI
Alessandro COSTACURTA
Roberto DONADONI
Gennaro Ivan GATTUSO
Fulvio COLLOVATI
Pierino
PRATI
Filippo INZAGHI
Cesare MALDINI
Alberto
GILARDINO
Angelo
ANQUILLETTI
Andrea
PIRLO
Alessandro NESTA
PLAYERS
10 FORLIVESI Giuseppe - A, 1920(d)
2 CASSANI Valerio - M, 1948(d)
2 DUGONI Bruno - M, 1925(d)
2 NERI Maino - M, 1948(d)
2 PERNIGO Francesco - A, 1948(d)
2 PICCALUGA Angelo - A, 1929(d)
1 MALINVERNI Ermanno - M, 1947(d)
Francesco PERNIGO
Most goals in Azzurro
AZZURRO RECORDS:
Angelo PICCALUGA formed part of the Azzurro squad that won the 1930 Coppa Internazionale. Francesco PERNIGO is the Azzurro who scored most goals in his debut match - 4 goals. Maino NERI is the latest of only four players to lead the Azzurri as Captain in his debut.
Maino
NERI
Only captain in Azzurro
Christian VIERI
AZZURRO RECORDS:Flavio ROMA was the second Azzurro player to play with the Italian National team only from a foreign club.
Roberto
ROSATO
Daniele
MASSARO
Mauro
TASSOTTI
Carlo
ANCELOTTI
Aldo
MALDERA
Giovanni
LODETTI
Christian
ABBIATI
Massimo
AMBROSINI
Ruben
BURIANI
Stefano
ERANIO
Mario B.
BALOTELLI
Stephan
EL SHAARAWY
Antonio
CASSANO
Gian Luca
ZAMBROTTA
Pietro
ARCARI
Bruno
DUGONI
Valerio
CASSANI
Angelo
PICCALUGA
Massimo
ODDO
AZZURRO RECORDS: Pioneer Club - Aldo CEVENINI and Pietro LANA played in the first match of the Azzurri. Milan is the third Azzurro Club to give most players, scorers and captains to the Italian National team. It is also the third Azzurro Club whose players played most games, scored most goals and captained most games in Azzurro. Milan is the club with most Runner-up players in World Cup history (15 Joint) and the third most club with players to play and lost the World Cup final (10). It is third club with most Italian players who finished in the first four places of the World Cup (23), third club with most Italians who played the final (10) and the club with most Italian players who played and lost the final (7). It is the fourth club with most Italian World Champions - 8: 1934 - Pietro ARCARI who never played in Azzurro although formed part of the squad; 1982 - Franco BARESI, Fulvio COLLOVATI; 2006 - Gennaro I. GATTUSO, Alberto GILARDINO, Filippo INZAGHI,
Alessandro NESTA, Andrea PIRLO; the club with most Italian Runner-up World Champions - 10: 1970 - Pierino PRATI, Gianni RIVERA, Roberto ROSATO; 1994 - Paolo MALDINI, Franco BARESI, Demetrio ALBERTINI,
Alessandro COSTACURTA, Roberto DONADONI,
Daniele MASSARO, Mauro TASSOTTI; and the joint-second Club with most Italian players who finished third in the World Cup - 4: 1990 - Carlo ANCELOTTI, Franco BARESI, Roberto DONADONI, Paolo MALDINI. Aldo MALDERA formed part of the Azzurro Squad that finished fourth in the 1978 World Cup. Six Milan players became European Champions with the Azzurri: 1968 - Angelo ANQUILLETTI, Giovanni LODETTI, Pierino PRATI,
Gianni RIVERA, Roberto ROSATO and 2020 - Gianluigi DONNARUMA; and another seven formed part of the Azzurri squads that finished second in the European Nations Championship: in 2000 Paolo MALDINI, Christian ABBIATI, Demetrio ALBERTINI, Massimo AMBROSINI
and in 2012 Antonio CASSANO, Antonio NOCERINO,
Ignazio ABATE; whilst eight other players formed part of the Azzurri squads that finished fourth: 1980 - Franco BARESI, Ruben BURIANI, Fulvio COLLOVATI, Aldo MALDERA; 1988 - Carlo ANCELOTTI, Franco BARESI,
Roberto DONADONI, Paolo MALDINI. Five Milan player formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished third in the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013: Ignazio ABATE, Mario BALOTELLI, Riccardo MONTOLIVO, Stephan EL SHAARAWY, Mattia DE SCIGLIO. Mario MAGNOZZI
formed part of the Azzurro squad that finished second in the 1932 Coppa Internazionale, whilst Pietro PASTORE won the Olympic Bronze Medal when the Azzurri finished third in the Football Tournament of the 1928 Olympic Games although he never played with the Italian National team but still formed part of the Azzurri Squad. Davide CALABRIA
formed part of the Azzurro squad that finished third in the UEFA Nations League: 2020/21. Paolo MALDINI was the Azzurro Captain of the Italian squad that finished second in the 2000 European Nations Championships and Azzurro Captain in four of the seven matches of the 1994 World Cup when the Azzurri finished Runner-up World Champions.
Paolo MALDINI is the player with most full 90 minutes consecutive appearances in World Cup history (23 consecutive 90 minutes games), the player with most World Cup Appearances in Minutes (2217 Minutes), the second player with most World Cup games appearances (23 games) and by forming part of the Azzurri squad in four different World Cup editions, together with three other Azzurri players amongst them Gianni RIVERA, they are the most Italian players with World Cup Editions Appearances and the third most All-Time World Cup Editions Appearances in World Cup history. He is also the Italian player with most World Cup games appearances (23 games). Franco BARESI was the Azzurro Captain in three of the seven matches of the 1994 World Cup when the Azzurri finished Runner-up World Champions. He is also the first Captain to lose a World Cup Final by a Penalty Shoot-Out in World Cup history. Pietro LANA scored the first Azzurro goal which was also the first Azzurro home goal, the first Azzurro goal in a Friendly match and the first Azzurro Debut goal. He also scored the first Azzurro Penalty and scored the first Azzurro Tripletta (3 goals in the same match). Renzo DE VECCHI is the youngest debutant in Azzurro (16 yrs, 4 mts, 21 dys) and was also the first Azzurro player to enter as a Substitute, whilst Aldo CEVENINI was the first Azzurro player to be substituted.
Gianluigi DONNARUMMA is the third youngest debutant in Azzurro at 17 years, 6 months, 7 days. Mauro TASSOTTI, besides being the third oldest Azzurro debutant at the age of 32 years, 9 months, 25 days, is the first Azzurro player to be disqualified through TV footage. For the same incident he received the longest suspension for misconduct by a player in World Cup history (8 matches) for elbowing an opponent. The Italo-Brazilian Jose ALTAFINI is one of only seven players in World Cup history to play with two different countries in the World Cup (Brazil in 1958 as Mazola and Italy in 1962 as Altafini). Gianluigi DONNARUMA won the the EURO 2020 Best Player of the Tournament award, the only goalkeeper and only Azzurro player to win this award.
Andrea PIRLO won the 2006 FIFA / Addidas Bronze Ball Award after being declared the Third Best Player of the World Cup, the only Azzurro player to win this award.
Amleto FRIGNANI and Roberto DONADONI are two of only twelve Azzurri players who scored in the first minute of an Azzurro match.
MONZA
CITY: Monza
PLAYERS
2 MALDINI Daniel - A, 2024(d)
2 PESSINA Matteo - M, 2022
SCORERS
1 PESSINA Matteo
CAPTAINS
No Monza player ever led
the Azzurro as Captain
UNUSED CALL-UPS
BIRINDELLI Samuele - D
COLPANI Andrea - M
GIORCELLI Anselmo - G
RANOCCHIA Filippo - M
VIGNATO Samuele - M
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MANCHESTER CITY
CITY: Manchester
(England)
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1GAMES: 15SCORERS: 1GOALS: 5
CAPTAINS: 0CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
PLAYERS
15 BALOTELLI Mario Barwuah - A, 2010
SCORERS
5 BALOTELLI Mario B.
CAPTAINS
No Manchester City player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Mario Barwuah
BALOTELLI
Only player in Azzurro
Antonio
NOCERINO
AZZURRO RECORDS:Mario BALOTELLI formed part of the Azzurri squad that finished Runner-up European Champion in 2012.
Mario
MAGNOZZI
Pietro
PASTORE
Ignazio
ABATE
Amleto FRIGNANI
Jose
ALTAFINI
Renzo
DE VECCHI
Carlo ANNOVAZZI
Romeo BENETTI
Giovanni
TRAPATTONI
Bruno
MORA
Omero
TOGNON
Riccardo
MONTOLIVO
Mattia
DE SCIGLIO
Davide
CALABRIA
MANCHESTER UNITED
CITY: Manchester
(England)
PLAYERS
23 DARMIAN Matteo - D, 2015
SCORERS
1 DARMIAN Matteo
CAPTAINS
No Manchester United player ever led the Azzurri as Captain
Matteo
DARMIAN
Only player in Azzurro
Stephan
EL SHAARAWY
Most Games in Azzurro
Only Scorer in Azzurro
LEGEND OF LISTS: Number of Games / Goals / Captained Games, Surname, Name, Position, Year of first game in Azzurro from the Club.
POSITIONS: G - Goalkeeper, D - Defender, M - Midfielder, A - Attacker.
ABBREVIATIONS: (d) - Debut - Played his first game in Azzurro in that year and with that club.
(o) - Oriundo
UNUSED CALL-UPS: Statistics covered only from Azzurro Game 299 (25 September 1971) till TODAY. It includes also the Squads for the World Cups: 1970, 1966, 1962, 1954, 1950, 1938, 1934; European Nations Cup: 1968; Olympic Games Football Tournaments: 1952, 1948, 1936, 1928, 1924, 1920, 1912.
The Players displayed for each club are not necessary the best or most memorable players from the club, but statistically they are the main players. Displayed are mainly, the first players to play in Azzurro, score in Azzurro and Captain the Azzurri from the club and the players who played the most in Azzurro, scored the most in Azzurro and Captained the most the Azzurri from the Club. Where space permitted other significant statistical players from the club were displayed.
FULL NAME: Manchester City Football Club
NICKNAMES: Sky Blues (Club Colours), City (Second part of the name
that differentiate them from their city rivals - Manchester United), The Citizens
(The people of the city, in this case 'Manchester City'), Blue Moon (A blue moon is a rare astronomical event and is the second full moon that appears in the same calendar month that already had a full moon. In the 1980's the situation of Manchester City was so bad that they did not win a single game in a series of 41 away matches, thus when victory finally arrived the supporters started singing the famous 1960's song 'Blue Moon', and it stayed, mainly due to the colour Blue, the club colours)
HISTORY:Founded in 1880 as 'St. Mark's West Gorton' but changed their name in 1887 to 'Ardwick Association Football Club'. In 1894 the name was changed again to the current one.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 1 - 2023. UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1970. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 1 - 2023, UEFA Super Cup, 1 - 2023.
FULL NAME: Manchester United Football Club.
NICKNAMES: The Red Devils (Club Colours and Mascot), United
(Second part of the name that differentiate them from their city rivals - Manchester City).
HISTORY:Founded in 1878 as Newton Heath Football Club by the Carriage and Wagon Department workers of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) Depot at Newton Heath. In 1902 the club was declared bankrupt but was re-founded immediately with the current name.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:UEFA Champions League, 3 - 1968, 1999, 2008. UEFA Cup Winners Cup, 1 - 1991. UEFA Super Cup, 1 - 1991. Intercontinental Cup (FIFA Club World Championship), 2 - 1999, 2008. 'Laureus' World Sports Team of the Year Award, 1 - 2000.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 1 GAMES: 23 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 1
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
Beniamino
DI GIACOMO
FULL NAME: Associazioni Calcio Riunite Messina Società
arms - Whiteshielded, a white shield), Peloritani (Peloritans - After the mountain chain Peloritani that over shadows the city of Messina).
HISTORY: A club with a long history of mergers, it was founded on the 1 December 1900 as 'Messina Football Club', mainly by English men living and working in Messina. The great 1908 Messina earthquake killed a lot of their players, thus in 1910 the club was absorbed by the newly founded football section of the 'Società Ginnastica Garibaldi'. In 1919, at the end of WW I the club was re-founded as 'Unione Sportiva Messinese'. In 1922 it merged twice with two other clubs, in October with 'Societa Sportiva Umberto I' (founded in 1906) to create the 'Unione Sportiva Messinese Umberto I' and then in November with 'Messina Sporting Club' (founded in 1921) with the return to the old name 'Messina Football Club'. This new club held for just two seasons and in December 1924 it was disbanded and taken over by the 'Unione Sportiva Messinese' that was re-founded again in 1923. In 1928 the club changed its name to 'Associazione Calcio Messina' but was declared bankrupt in 1941, however it was immediately re-founded under the name 'Unione Sportiva Mario Passamonte', a former player from Messina of the club 'Unione Sportiva Peloro 1906' who had just died during WWII. At the end of the war, in 1945, the club merged with 'Unione Sportiva Arsenale' (founded in 1944), 'Unione Sportiva Peloro' (founded in 1919) and 'Unione Sportiva Passamonte' to create the 'Associazione Sportiva Messina'. A year later the club merged with 'Associazione Calcio Gazzi' (founded in 1928) to recreate the 'Associazione Calcio Messina'. Some dissident players and officials who were not happy with the previous merger, formed a new club, the 'Unione Sportiva Giostra', but after just two seasons, in 1947, they re-merged with their former club to create the 'Associazione Calcio Riunite Messina'. In 1993 the club was declared bankrupt but was immediately re-founded with the old name 'Associazione Sportiva Messina'. A year later it merged with two other clubs 'Villafranca' and 'Tremestieri' under the name 'Unione Sportiva Peloro' and in 1997 the name was changed to 'Football Club Messina Peloro'. In 2008 the club was again declared bankrupt but was again re-founded as 'Associazione Calcio Rinascita Messina', but in 2014 the name was changed to 'Associazioni Calcio Riunite Messina 1947'. In 2017 the club was disbanded by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) due to financial and administrative problems and re-founded under the name 'Associazione Calcio Rilancio Messina Società Sportiva Dilettantistica', a name that was changed to the current one in 2019.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Stella d'Argento al Merito Sportivo, 1 - 1979.
FULL NAME: Middlesbrough Football Club
NICKNAMES: Boro (An abbreviation of the last part of the name,
meaning ancient settlement or a pre-Saxon fort situated on slightly elevated
land close to the Tees). Smoggies (People from Teesside, north east England - an abbreviation of 'smog monster' in view of the industrial nature of the area)
HISTORY:Founded in 1876 by the 'Middlesbrough Cricket Club' players to stay fit during the winter when Cricket was not played. In 1889 the club split over a dispute and several members formed the 'Middlesbrough Ironopolis'. In 1892 both clubs tried to merge again as the 'Middlesbrough and Ironopolis Football and Athletic Club' but the English Federation did not accepted the merge and both clubs went their separate ways ('Middlesbrough Ironopolis' was dissolved in 1894). In 1888 'Middlesbrough Football Club' was one of the founding members of the English Football League.
NATIONAL HONOURS:Football League Cup, 1 - 2003/04,Northern League, 3 - 1893/94, 1894/95, 1896/97.FA Amateur Cup, 2 - 1894/95, 1897/98.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:Anglo-Scotish Cup, 1 - 1976.Kirin Cup, 1 - 1980.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TEAM
PLAYERS: 2 GAMES: 7 SCORERS: 1 GOALS: 3
CAPTAINS: 0 CAPTAINED GAMES: 0
AZZURRO RECORDS: The first non-Italian Club whose players scored in Azzurro. Fabrizio RAVANELLI scored the first Azzurro goal from a Foreign Club.
Brianza - The area with its own dialect in the western part of the Lombardy Province,
including Monza), Bagaj (People with the Brianza dialect).
HISTORY:Founded on the 1 September 1912 as 'Monza Foot Ball Club' at the 'Caffè Pasticceria Roma'. A year later it merged with 'Pro Monza' and 'Juventus' (both founded in 1910) to form 'Associazione Calcio Monza'. This name was kept until 1980, with the exception of the 1955 - 1964 period when the food company Simmenthal sponsored the club and thus its name was included in the name of the club, 'Associazione Sportiva Simmenthal - Monza'. In 1980 the name was changed to 'Calcio Monza' until the club was declared bankrupt in 2004. In the same year it was re-founded with the name 'Associazione Calcio Monza Brianza 1912', but in 2015 the club again went bankrupt and was immediately re-founded as 'Società Sportiva Dilettantistica Monza 1912'. However a year later the name was changed to 'Società Sportiva Monza 1912' and in 2019 the name returned back to 'Associazione Calcio Monza', the current name.
INTERNATIONAL HONOURS:Anglo-Italian Cup, 1 - 1976.
GAMES: 3
