Football World Cup 1998 / Italy

This article covers the Italian national football team at the 1998 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	15: 2	19th
2	Italy	11: 1	18th
3	Poland	10:12	10
4th	Georgia	7: 9	10
5	Moldova	2:21	0

Moldova	-	Italy	1: 3
Italy	-	Georgia	1-0
England	-	Italy	0: 1
Italy	-	Moldova	3-0
Poland	-	Italy	0-0
Italy	-	Poland	3-0
Georgia	-	Italy	0-0
Italy	-	England	0-0

Playoffs:

Russia	-	Italy	1: 1
Italy	-	Russia	1-0

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
22nd	Gianluigi Buffon	AC Parma	01/28/1978	0	0	0	0	0
12	Gianluca Pagliuca	Inter Milan	December 18, 1966	5	0	0	0	0
1	Francesco Toldo	AC Florence	12/02/1971	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Giuseppe Bergomi	Inter Milan	12/22/1963	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Fabio Cannavaro	AC Parma	13.09.1973	5	0	1	0	0
5	Alessandro Costacurta	AC Milan	04/24/1966	5	0	2	0	0
3	Paolo Maldini	AC Milan	06/26/1968	5	0	2	0	0
6th	Alessandro Nesta	Lazio Rome	March 19, 1976	3	0	0	0	0
7th	Gianluca pessotto	Juventus Turin	08/11/1970	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Moreno Torricelli	Juventus Turin	01/23/1970	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
9	Demetrio Albertini	AC Milan	08/23/1971	4th	0	0	0	0
11	Dino Baggio	AC Parma	07/24/1971	5	0	0	0	0
13	Sandro Cois	AC Florence	06/09/1972	0	0	0	0	0
14th	Luigi Di Biagio	AS Roma	06/03/1971	5	1	2	0	0
15th	Angelo Di Livio	Juventus Turin	07/26/1966	3	0	1	0	0
16	Roberto Di Matteo	Chelsea FC	05/29/1970	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Francesco Moriero	Inter Milan	March 31, 1969	4th	0	1	0	0
striker
18th	Roberto Baggio	Bologna FC	02/18/1967	4th	2	0	0	0
20th	Enrico Chiesa	AC Parma	December 29, 1970	2	0	0	0	0
10	Alessandro Del Piero	Juventus Turin	11/9/1974	4th	0	1	0	0
19th	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus Turin	08/09/1973	2	0	0	0	0
21st	Christian Vieri	Atlético Madrid	07/12/1973	5	5	0	0	0
Trainer
	Cesare Maldini		02/05/1932

Italian team matches

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Italy	7: 3	7th
2	Chile	4: 4	3
3	Austria	3: 4	2
4th	Cameroon	2: 5	2

• Italy - Chile 2: 2 (1: 1)

Stadium: Parc Lescure ( Bordeaux )

Spectators: 31,800

Referee: Lucien Bouchardeau ( Niger )

Goals: 1-0 Vieri (10th), 1: 1 Salas (45th), 1: 2 Salas (49th), 2: 2 R. Baggio (85th / penalty )

• Italy - Cameroon 3: 0 (1: 0)

Stadium: Stade de la Mosson ( Montpellier )

Spectators: 29,800

Referee: Edward Lennie ( Australia )

Goals: 1-0 Di Biagio (7th), 2-0 Vieri (75th), 3-0 Vieri (89th)

• Italy - Austria 2: 1 (0: 0)

Stadium: Stade de France ( Saint-Denis )

Spectators: 80,000

Referee: Paul Durkin ( England )

Goals: 1-0 Vieri (49th), 2-0 R. Baggio (89th), 2-1 Herzog (90th / penalty )

Round of 16

55,000

Stade Vélodrome ( Marseille )

Italy

Norway

Bernd Heynemann ( Germany )

1: 0 (1: 0)

1-0 Vieri (18th)

Italy prevailed lackluster against Norway.

Quarter finals

77,000

Stade de France ( Saint-Denis )

France

Italy

Hugh Dallas ( Scotland )

0: 0 n.V., 4: 3 n.E.

Penalties: Zidane hit R. Baggio hit Lizarazu held Albertini held Trezeguet hit Costacurta hit Henry hit Vieri hit Blanc hit Di Biagio Latte

Italy played against France goalless for 120 minutes. In the penalty shootout, however, the French had better nerves. The unlucky person of the game was Luigi Di Biagio, who put the last and decisive penalty on the crossbar.