Overall, Juventus are the club
that has contributed the most players to the Italian national team in history,
they are the only Italian club that has contributed players to every Italian national team since the
2nd FIFA World Cup.
Juventus have contributed numerous players to Italy's
World Cup campaigns, these successful periods principally have coincided with two
golden ages of the
Turin club's history, referred as
Quinquennio d'Oro (The Golden Quinquennium), from 1931 until 1935, and
Ciclo Leggendario (The Legendary Cycle), from 1972 to 1986.
Below are a list of Juventus players who represented the Italian national team during World Cup winning tournaments;
- 1934 FIFA World Cup (9); Gianpiero Combi, Virginio Rosetta, Luigi Bertolini, Felice Borel IIº, Umberto Caligaris, Giovanni Ferrari, Luis Monti, Raimundo Orsi and Mario Varglien Iº
- 1938 FIFA World Cup (2); Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava
- 1982 FIFA World Cup (6); Dino Zoff, Antonio Cabrini, Claudio Gentile, Paolo Rossi, Gaetano Scirea and Marco Tardelli
- 2006 FIFA World Cup (5); Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluigi Buffon, Mauro Camoranesi, Alessandro Del Piero and Gianluca Zambrotta
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, two Juventus players Alfredo Foni and Pietro Rava, represented Italy in the gold medal winning squad at the
1936 Summer Olympics. Three
bianconeri players represented their nation during the
1968 European Football Championship win for Italy;
Sandro Salvadore,
Ernesto Càstano and
Giancarlo Bercellino.
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, more than any other club in the world (three other players in the 1998 squad,
Patrick Vieira,
David Trézéguet and
Lilian Thuram have all played for Juventus at one time or another). 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.
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