Soccer World Cup 1986 / Italy

The Italian national football team at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico :

qualification

As the world champion of the 1982 World Cup , Italy was automatically qualified for the tournament.

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Giovanni Galli	AC Florence	04/29/1958	4th	0	0	0
12	Franco Tancredi	AS Roma	01/10/1955	0	0	0	0
22nd	Walter Zenga	Inter Milan	04/28/1960	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Giuseppe Bergomi	Inter Milan	12/22/1963	3	0	2	0
3	Antonio Cabrini	Juventus Turin	10/08/1957	4th	0	1	0
4th	Fulvio Collovati	Inter Milan	05/09/1957	1	0	0	0
5	Sebastiano Nela	AS Roma	March 13, 1961	0	0	0	0
6th	Gaetano Scirea	Juventus Turin	05/25/1953	4th	0	1	0
7th	Roberto Tricella	Hellas Verona	03/18/1959	0	0	0	0
8th	Pietro Vierchowod	Sampdoria Genoa	04/06/1959	4th	0	1	0
midfield player
9	Carlo Ancelotti	AS Roma	06/10/1959	0	0	0	0
10	Salvatore Bagni	SSC Naples	09/25/1956	4th	0	0	0
11	Giuseppe Baresi	Inter Milan	02/07/1958	3	0	0	0
13	Fernando De Napoli	US Avellino	03/15/1964	4th	0	1	0
14th	Antonio Di Gennaro	Hellas Verona	05.10.1958	4th	0	1	0
15th	Marco Tardelli	Inter Milan	09/24/1954	0	0	0	0
16	Bruno Conti	AS Roma	03/13/1955	4th	0	0	0
striker
17th	Gianluca Vialli	Sampdoria Genoa	07/09/1964	4th	0	0	0
18th	Alessandro Altobelli	Inter Milan	11/28/1955	4th	4th	0	0
19th	Giuseppe Galderisi	Hellas Verona	March 22, 1963	4th	0	0	0
20th	Paolo Rossi	AC Milan	09/23/1956	0	0	0	0
21st	Aldo Serena	Juventus Turin	06/25/1960	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Enzo Bearzot		09/26/1927

Italian games at the 1986 World Cup

Preliminary round

Italy played the opening game of the World Cup against Bulgaria as defending champions .

• Italy 1-1 Bulgaria - Goals: 1-0 Altobelli (43.min.), 1: 1 Sirakow (85.min.)
• Italy 1-1 Argentina - Goals: 1-0 Altobelli (5th minute from a penalty kick), 1: 1 Maradona (34th minute)
• Italy 3-2 South Korea - Goals: 1-0 Altobelli (18th min.), 1-1 Soon Ho Choi (61st min.), 2-1 Altobelli (73rd min.), 3-1 Kwang Rae Cho (82nd min. - own goal), 3-2 Jung Moo Huh (89th min.)

Italy qualified as second in the group behind eventual world champions Argentina .

Round of 16

Opponent in the round of 16 was the current European champions France .

• Italy 0-2 France - Goals: 0-1 Platini (14th min.), 0-2 Stopyra (57th min.)