Football World Cup 1982 / Italy

This article covers the Italian national team at the 1982 World Cup in Spain .

qualification

Italy qualified second behind Yugoslavia for the finals in Spain.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Yugoslavia	22: 7	13: 3
2	Italy	12: 6	12: 4
3	Denmark	14:11	8: 8
4th	Greece	10:13	7: 9
5	Luxembourg	1:23	0:16

Luxembourg	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
Italy	-	Denmark	2: 0 (1: 0)
Italy	-	Yugoslavia	2: 0 (1: 0)
Greece	-	Italy	0: 2 (0: 1)
Denmark	-	Italy	3: 1 (0: 0)
Yugoslavia	-	Italy	1: 1 (1: 1)
Italy	-	Greece	1: 1 (0: 0)
Italy	-	Luxembourg	1: 0 (1: 0)

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Dino Zoff	Juventus Turin	02/28/1942	7th	0	0	0
12	Ivano Bordon	Inter Milan	04/13/1951	0	0	0	0
22nd	Giovanni Galli	AC Florence	04/29/1958	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Franco Baresi	AC Milan	05/08/1960	0	0	0	0
3	Giuseppe Bergomi	Inter Milan	12/22/1963	3	0	0	0
4th	Antonio Cabrini	Juventus Turin	10/08/1957	7th	1	0	0
5	Fulvio Collovati	Inter Milan	05/09/1957	7th	0	1	0
6th	Claudio Gentile	Juventus Turin	09/27/1953	6th	0	2	0
7th	Gaetano Scirea	Juventus Turin	05/25/1953	7th	0	1	0
8th	Pietro Vierchowod	AS Roma	04/06/1959	0	0	0	0
midfield player
9	Giancarlo Antognoni	AC Florence	04/01/1954	6th	0	1	0
10	Giuseppe Dossena	Torino Calcio	05/02/1958	0	0	0	0
11	Giampiero Marini	Inter Milan	02/25/1951	5	0	1	0
13	Gabriele Oriali	Inter Milan	11/25/1952	5	0	2	0
14th	Marco Tardelli	Juventus Turin	09/24/1954	7th	2	1	0
15th	Franco Causio	Udinese Calcio	02/01/1949	2	0	0	0
16	Bruno Conti	AS Roma	03/13/1955	7th	1	1	0
striker
17th	Daniele Massaro	AC Florence	05/23/1961	0	0	0	0
18th	Alessandro Altobelli	Inter Milan	11/28/1955	3	1	0	0
19th	Francesco Graziani	AC Florence	December 16, 1952	7th	1	0	0
20th	Paolo Rossi	Juventus Turin	09/23/1956	7th	6th	1	0
21st	Franco Selvaggi	Cagliari Calcio	05/15/1953	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Enzo Bearzot		09/26/1927

Italian games

Preliminary round

Italy could not win a single game in the preliminary round and only qualified for the second round because of one more goal against Cameroon, finishing second behind Poland .

• Italy 0-0 Poland
• Italy 1-1 Peru - Goals: 1-0 Conti (19th min.), 1: 1 Díaz (84th min.)
• Italy 1-1 Cameroon - Goals: 1-0 Graziani (60th min.), 1-1 Mbida (61th min.)

Intermediate round

Group C

• Italy 2-1 Argentina - Goals: 1-0 Tardelli (55th), 2-0 Cabrini (67th), 2-1 Passarella (83th min.)
• Italy 3-2 Brazil - Goals: 1-0 Rossi (5th min.), 1: 1 Sócrates (12th min.), 2-1 Rossi (25th min.), 2-2 Falcão (68th min .) .), 3: 2 Rossi (72nd min.)

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Italy	2	2	0	0	005: 300	+2	04-00
2.	Brazil	2	1	0	1	005: 400	+1	02: 20
3.	Argentina	2	0	0	2	002: 500	−3	00: 40

Semifinals

• Italy 2-0 Poland - Goals: 1-0 Rossi (22nd min.), 2-0 Rossi (72nd min.)

final

• Italy - Germany 3-1 - Goals: 1-0 Rossi (57th min.), 2-0 Tardelli (69th min.), 3-0 Altobelli (81st), 3-1 Breitner (83rd min.) )