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Italian
National
Team
The Italian national
football team represents
Italy in international football
competition. They
are the current World
Champions, having won the
2006 FIFA World
Cup.
Italy is among the
top
teams in international
football and the second most
successful national team
having won four World
Cups, just one fewer than
Brazil. To this tally they
can add one European
championship, two Central
European International Cups
and one Olympic Gold
Medal.
The traditional
colour of
the national team is azure
blue, due to the
"Azzurro Savoia"
(Savoy Blue in
English), the colour
traditionally linked to the
dynasty which unified Italy
in 1861. Therefore,
national team members are
nicknamed
Azzurri.
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