European Football Championship 2008 / Italy

This article covers the Italian national team at the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland .

qualification

Game results

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
September 2, 2006	Stadio San Paolo , Naples	Lithuania	1: 1 (1: 1)	0: 1 Danilevičius (21.) 1: 1 Inzaghi (30.)
September 6, 2006	Stade de France , Paris	France	3: 1 (2: 1)	1: 0 Govou (2nd), 2: 0 Henry (16th), 2: 1 Gilardino (20th), 3: 1 Govou (55th)
October 7, 2006	Stadio Olimpico , Rome	Ukraine	2: 0 (0: 0)	1-0 Oddo (25th / penalty), 2-0 Toni (79th)
October 11, 2006	Boris Paitschadze Stadium , Tbilisi	Georgia	1: 3 (1: 1)	0: 1 De Rossi (17th), 1: 1 Shaschiashvili (25th), 1: 2 Camoranesi 61.), 1: 3 Perrotta (71.)
March 28, 2007	Stadio San Nicola , Bari	Scotland	2: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Toni (12th), 2-0 Toni (70th)
June 2, 2007	Tórsvøllur , Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	1: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1 Inzaghi (13th), 0: 2 Inzaghi (48th), 1: 2 Jacobsen (77th)
June 6, 2007	S.Dariaus and S.Girėno Stadium , Kaunas	Lithuania	0: 2 (0: 2)	0: 1 quagliarella (31st), 0: 2 quagliarella (45th + 1)
September 8, 2007	Giuseppe Meazza Stadium , Milan	France	0-0
September 12, 2007	Olympic Stadium , Kiev	Ukraine	1: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1 Di Natale (40th), 1: 1 Shevchenko (72nd), 1: 2 Di Natale (77th)
October 13, 2007	Stadio Luigi Ferraris , Genoa	Georgia	2: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 Pirlo (44th), 2-0 Grosso (84th)
November 17, 2007	Hampden Park , Glasgow	Scotland	1: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1 Toni (2nd), 1: 1 Ferguson (65th), 1: 2 Panucci (90th + 1)
November 21, 2007	Stadio Alberto Braglia , Modena	Faroe Islands	3: 1 (3: 0)	1: 0 Benjaminsen (10th / own goal), 2: 0 Toni (36th), 3: 0 Chiellini (41st), 3: 1 Jacobsen (83rd).

Final table group B

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
1	Italy	12	9	2	1	22: 09	29
2	France	12	8th	2	2	25: 05	26th
3	Scotland	12	8th	0	4th	21:12	24
4th	Ukraine	12	5	2	5	18:16	17th
5	Lithuania	12	5	1	6th	11:13	16
6th	Georgia	12	3	1	8th	16:19	10
7th	Faroe Islands	12	0	0	12	04:43	00

Preparation games

Italy played just one preparatory game right before the European Championship, beating Belgium 3-1 on May 30, 2008 at the Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence with two goals from Antonio Di Natale and a goal from Mauro Camoranesi .

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
14th	Marco Amelia	AS Livorno	04/02/1982	0	0	0	0	0
1	Gianluigi Buffon	Juventus Turin	01/28/1978	4th	0	0	0	0
17th	Morgan De Sanctis	Sevilla FC	03/26/1977	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
6th	Andrea Barzagli	US Palermo	05/08/1981	1	0	0	0	0
4th	Giorgio Chiellini	Juventus Turin	08/14/1984	3	0	0	0	0
5	Alessandro Gamberini 1st	AC Florence	08/27/1981	0	0	0	0	0
3	Fabio Grosso	Olympique Lyon	11/28/1977	4th	0	0	0	0
23	Marco Materazzi	Inter Milan	08/19/1973	1	0	0	0	0
2	Christian Panucci	AS Roma	04/12/1973	4th	1	0	0	0
19th	Gianluca Zambrotta	FC Barcelona	02/19/1977	4th	0	1	0	0
midfield player
13	Massimo Ambrosini	AC Milan	05/29/1977	4th	0	1	0	0
22nd	Alberto Aquilani	AS Roma	07/07/1984	2	0	0	0	0
16	Mauro Camoranesi	Juventus Turin	04/10/1976	4th	0	0	0	0
10	Daniele De Rossi	AS Roma	07/24/1983	3	1	1	0	0
8th	Gennaro Gattuso	AC Milan	01/09/1978	2	0	2	0	0
20th	Simone Perrotta	AS Roma	09/17/1977	3	0	0	0	0
21st	Andrea Pirlo	AC Milan	05/19/1979	3	1	2	0	0
striker
12	Marco Borriello	CFC genoa	06/18/1982	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Antonio Cassano	Sampdoria Genoa	07/12/1982	4th	0	0	0	0
7th	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus Turin	11/9/1974	3	0	0	0	0
11	Antonio Di Natale	Udinese Calcio	10/13/1977	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Fabio Quagliarella	Udinese Calcio	01/31/1983	1	0	0	0	0
9	Luca Toni	FC Bayern Munich	05/26/1977	4th	0	1	0	0
Trainer
	Roberto Donadoni		09.09.1963

¹ Gamberini replaced Fabio Cannavaro , who injured his left ankle during training on June 2, 2008 and had to cancel his participation in the European Championship.

Crew quarters

The Italian team's quarters are at the Hotel Schloss Weikersdorf Residenz in Baden near Vienna , which they moved into on June 2, 2008. The Azzurri training units take place in the Südstadt sports center in Maria Enzersdorf .

Games of Italy

Preliminary group C

Monday, June 9, 2008, 8:45 pm, in Bern
Netherlands	-	Italy	3: 0 (2: 0)
Friday, June 13, 2008, 6:00 p.m., in Zurich
Italy	-	Romania	1: 1 (0: 0)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 8:45 pm, in Zurich
France	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)

For details see European Football Championship 2008 / Group C

Quarter finals

Sunday, June 22, 2008, 8:45 p.m., in Vienna
Spain	-	Italy	0: 0 a.d., 4: 2 i. E.

Details: European Football Championship 2008 / final round

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Italia, è già dopo Cannavaro. Arriva Gamberini, chi gioca ?." , www.gazzetta.it , accessed June 2, 2008 (Italian)