Italy Away Shirt 2007/09 with Cannavaro 5 printing
The Italian national football team are the current World Champions, having won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Cannavaro, the Italian captain is won of the greatest defenders in modern times. The central defender has been the FIFA World Player of the Year and European Footballer of the Year as well as winning titles for Juventus and Real Madrid. Italy is among the top teams in international football and the second most successful national team having won four World Cups (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), just one fewer than Brazil. To this tally they can add one European championship (1968), two Central European International Cups and one Olympic Gold Medal (1936). The traditional colour of the national team is light blue (azzurro, in Italian), and therefore national team members are nicknamed Azzurri.