The Italian national football team is the national football team of Italy and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation.
Italy is one of the most successful national teams, having won four World Cups (they are the current World Champions) and one European championship. The traditional jersey colour of the national team (as well as of all Italian teams and athletes, but in motor sports) is light blue (azzurro, in Italian), and therefore national team members are nicknamed Azzurri.
Italy also won the Olympic Gold Medal in 1936 and two Bronze Medals, in 1928 and 2004.
The Italian under-21 national team is very successful, having won five out of the last seven European Under-21 Football Championships (1990–92, 1992–94, 1994–96, 1998–2000 and 2002–2004 editions).
Italy will be playing in Group C, the group of "death", alongside France, the Netherlands and the Romania.
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