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Italy 1934 / 1398 World Cup Winners.

As worn by Azzurri, Milan and Inter legend Giuseppe Meazza, Meazza played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups, both of which Italy won, he scored 33 goals in 53 matches.

Among his memorable moments is a goal he scored in the 1938 tournament against Brazil in the semi-final. Italy were awarded a controversial penalty and as Meazza stepped up to take it, his shorts fell down. Meazza, without letting this stress him, held his shorts up and shot past the confused Brazilian keeper Walter, sending Italy through to the final.

Italy 1940's - 1950's.

Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia (born 22 December 1926 in Montevideo, Uruguay) an excellent dribbler on the right wing, 1,69 m short and 62 kg light, is considered one of the best wingers of the 1950s. The World Cup winner of 1950 played for the national sides of Uruguay and Italy.

Ghiggia (pictured) became a naturalized Italian citizen in 1957 he played between 1957-1959 for the national side of his adopted country. Three matches he played in the course of the ill-fated qualification for the World Cup 1958 in Sweden when Italy failed for the first time to make it to the final tournament of a World Cup. In his altogether five matches for Italy he scored one goal.

Italy Grande Torino 1947

On May 11, 1947, for the friendly match between Italy and Hungary 3-2, the Azzurri starting lineup was made of 10 Grande Torino players plus the Juventus goalkeeper Sentimenti IV. Italian manager Vittorio Pozzo reserved the Azzurri starting keeper Valerio Bacigalupo; otherwise it would have been the whole Grande Torino team playing for Italy.

Legendary captain Valentino Mazzola was also the captain of the Italy national football team as well as the father of Sandro Mazzola, who was also a great champion playing for Internazionale Milano and Italy in the 1960s-70s. Valentino was an all-around playmaker midfielder who could direct the team, pass, score, tackle, defend, inspire and lead his teammates.

Italy 1960's away.

Italy 1960's away.

Italy 1964. Giacinto Facchetti (18 July 1942 – 4 September 2006) made his debut for Italy on March 23, 1963. He was capped 94 times, wearing the captain's armband 70 times and scoring three goals. He played for his country at the 1966, 1970 and 1974 FIFA World Cups, and was part of the winning Italian squad at Euro 68. In March 2004, Pelé named him one of the top 125 greatest living footballers.

Italy 1962 World Cup Chile.

The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly unsavoury and infamous football match during the 1962 World Cup Finals. It was a game played between hosts Chile and Italy on June 2, 1962 in Santiago

The first foul occurred within 12 seconds of the kick-off. Italy's Giorgio Ferrini was sent off in the twelfth minute after a foul on Honorino Landa, but refused to leave the pitch and had to be dragged off by policemen. Landa retaliated with another foul few minutes later, but he was not sent off.

English referee Ken Aston overlooked a punch by Chilean Leonel Sanchez to Italian Mario David. When David kicked Sanchez few minutes later, he was sent off.

A later scuffle in the match In the violence that continued, Sanchez then broke Humberto Maschio's nose with a left hook by accident. The two teams engaged in scuffles and spitting, and police had to intervene three more times.

Chile won the match 2-0 (74' Ramírez; 88' Toro), eleven men against nine.

Italy European Champions 1968.

In the Final Yugoslavia completely dominated the Rome showpiece and took the lead through Dzajic five minutes before the interval. However, they were ultimately punished for having not beaten Zoff for a second time as Domenghini, with a free-kick, equalised nine minutes from time. Italy made five changed for the replay played just two days later and strolled past a tired Yugoslav side, scoring two first-half goals in a 2-0 win.

Child Sizes:

Small boys(age 3-4) - 26in - 28in

Medium boys(age 5-6) - 28in - 30in

Large boys(age 7-8) - 30in - 32in

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Italy 1970 World Cup.

The semi-final of the 1970 FIFA World Cup between Italy and West Germany is known in those countries as the "Game of the Century" (Italian: Partita del Secolo; German: Jahrhundertspiel; Spanish: Partido Del Siglo). It was played on 17 June 1970 at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. Italy won 4:3 after five goals were scored in extra time, the only FIFA World Cup game in which this has happened.

Italy 1978 World Cup.

The 1978 FIFA World Cup, held in Argentina, saw a new generation of Italian players, the most famous being Paolo Rossi, coming to the international stage. Italy played very well in the first round, being the only team in the tournament to beat the eventual champions and host team Argentina. Second round games against West Germany, Austria and Netherlands led Italy to the third place final, where it was defeated by Brazil 2-1. As in the match against the Netherlands, Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff was beaten by a long-distance shot and thus blamed as the main culprit for the defeat.

Italy 1982 World Cup Winners shirt.

Italy beat West Germany 3 - 1 in the Madrid final. Tardelli's scream after his goal in the final is still remembered as the symbol of Italy's 1982 World Cup triumph. Paolo Rossi won the Golden Boot with six goals,

The numbers used for this shirt are 3D block as worn in the tournament. Rossi wore number 20 and Tardelli 14.

Italy 1982 away.

Italy goalkeeper Zoff red.

Italy goalkeeper Zoff.

Italy goalkeepers Zoff 1982.

Dino Zoff (born February 28, 1942) is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40.

Zoff was a goalkeeper of outstanding ability and has a place in the history of the sport among the very best in this role. He holds the record for the longest playing time without allowing goals in international tournaments (1142 minutes) set between 1972 and 1974.

Italy tracktop1978.

1974 World Cup Shirt, worn by the Italian team during the World Cup in 1974 in Germany.

Poland took maximum points from a group containing two of the favourites for the tournament. They beat Argentina 3-2, trounced Haiti 7-0, then beat Italy 2-1 - a result that knocked the Italians out of the Cup and resulted in Argentina sneaking to the second group round on goal average.

While Haiti didn't do particularly well in their first World Cup finals (losing all three of their games) they did have one moment of glory. In their opening game against Italy, they managed to take the lead with a goal from Emmanuel Sanon, before eventually losing 3-1 (Italy had not conceded a goal in 19 international matches). That goal proved to be a significant goal as it ended Dino Zoff's run of 1142 minutes without conceding a goal.