Italy’s delegation chief Gianluigi Buffon says that the national team currently has ‘six or seven’ high-level players, and ...

Fabio Grosso says that he hopes people stop making comparisons between the current Italy national team and the side that won the World Cup in 2006, insisting that it ‘doesn’t help’ emerging young ...

Italy put in some sublime performances to lift the 2006 World Cup, but what has happened to the heroes of that tournament since? Italy are one of the traditional heavyweights in European football.

UDINE, Italy (AP) — Fabio Cannavaro, captain of the Italy squad that won the 2006 World Cup, was given his first Serie A coaching job on Monday at relegation-threatened Udinese. Cannavaro becomes ...

BERLIN – The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head ...

2006-07-10 04:00:00 PDT Berlin-- What began as an engaging World Cup final Sunday devolved into an inelegant victory on penalty kicks for Italy after France's captain and star midfielder Zinedine ...

A version of this piece was published in 2020. It has been updated to run as part of our special World Cup: Reconsidered series… This is a series re-assessing famous individual or team performances in ...