Pozzo’s Azzurri in stats

The Wunderteam had wrecked Italian optimism. The male who oversaw esteem-crushing home waste to a Austrians forward of a 1934 FIFA World Cup™ should hang to essay about calcio for La Stampa, announced a consensus. 

Vittorio Pozzo was not, however, a quitter. He swayed an ageing goalkeeper to postpone his retirement. He swayed an impoverished complicated drinker to barter blockade and poker for a many severe of aptness regimes. And he told dual group who despised one another that they would be pity a room for a integrate of months. Here is a lively statistical story of Italy’s 1934 and ’38 World Cup campaigns.

210 mins within 24 hours is what 7 Italians and 4 Spaniards are a usually group in World Cup story to have played. Gli Azzurri and La Roja kicked off their 1934 quarter-final replay, that a hosts won 1-0, usually twenty-one-and-a-half hours after their 120-minute initial confront had ended. Giampiero Combi, Luigi Allemandi, Eraldo Monzeglio, Luis Monti, Enrique Guaita, Raimundo Orsi and Giuseppe Meazza played in both games for Italy.

33 Italy goals is what Meazza done it with a spot-kick leader opposite Brazil in a 1938 semi-finals – a record that stood for 35 years until Gigi Riva got his 34th. As Il Balilla prepared to take that penalty, a effervescent in his shorts snapped and they fell down. Meazza held them adult with one palm as he stroked a turn past penalty-saving dilettante Walter.

9 mins is all Italy were divided from better in a 1934 Final – a closest a World Cup-winning side has been to blank out on a Trophy. Orsi equalised opposite Czechoslovakia in a 82nd minute, before Angelo Schiavio grabbed an extra-time winner.

7 uninterrupted World Cup victories is what Italy achieved from their quarter-final replay in 1934 to a ’38 Final – a record that stood for 68 years until Brazil managed 11 true wins. No other nation has achieved some-more than 6 unbroken wins.

7 foreign-born players won a World Cup with Italy in 1934: Attilio Demaria, Enrico Guaita, Luis Monti, Raimundo Orsi (all Argentina), Anfilogino Guarisi (Brazil), Felice Borel (France) and Mario Varglien (Austria-Hungary; now Croatia). The usually other World Cup-winning patrol with some-more than dual overseas-born players was France in 1998, whose party comprised Marcel Desailly (Ghana), Christian Karembeu (New Caledonia), Lilian Thuram (Guadeloupe) and Patrick Vieira (Senegal).

6 goals was a domain by that Italy thrashed USA in a 1934 initial turn (7-1) – a joint-second-biggest knockout-phase feat in World Cup history. It ties Hungary’s 6-0 retreat of Dutch East Indies in 1938 and Germany’s 7-1 thumping of Brazil in 2014, and trails usually Sweden’s 8-0 dispersion of Cuba in 1938.

5 of a group who played in Italy’s singular 1934 World Cup qualifier – and their final diversion before a contest – didn’t even make their squad, notwithstanding a 4-0 thrashing of Greece. A integrate of weeks before kick-off, Carlo Ceresoli pennyless his arm saving a Pietro Arcari shot, call Pozzo to make Giampiero Combi, whom he had swayed to postpone his retirement, his first-choice goalkeeper, while ‘The Old Master’ surprisingly ignored Mario Montesanto, Pietro Serantoni, Otavio Fantoni and Nereo Rocco, who went on to turn one of a many successful coaches in history.

5 was a position Giuseppe Meazza came in Guerin Sportivo’s ranking of a 50 biggest players of a 20th century. Pele (1st), Diego Maradona (2nd), Alfredo Di Stefano (3rd) and Johan Cruyff (4th) were a usually players a world’s oldest sports repository placed above Meazza.

4 weeks before a 1934 World Cup kicked off, Pozzo done one of a boldest decisions in Italian football history. Luis Monti and Angelo Schiavio loathed one another – they had roughly come to blows during Bologna’s South American debate in 1929 and had clashed regularly thereafter, culminating in a Juventus hardman vigourously stamping on his abase rival’s knee during a Serie A pretension showdown in 1932. Juve, who had been losing, won that compare 3-2 and eventually a Scudetto, and Schiavio labelled Monti “a criminal” – an almighty insult during a time. When they arrived during Italy’s pre-World Cup training stay by a Western Alps, Pozzo announced to a astounded patrol that Monti and Schiavio would be rooming together for a subsequent dual months!

4 players – Giovanni Ferrari, Guido Masetti, Giuseppe Meazza and Eraldo Monzeglio – is all that done both Italy’s 1934 and ’38 World Cup-winning squads. By contrast, 14 of a group who helped Brazil conquer a contest in 1958 defended their place in their ’62 squad.

3 weeks before he summoned his rough patrol for a 1934 World Cup, Pozzo – opposite a recommendation of his peers – walked into a grubby Rome pub to locate Attilio Ferraris. The tough-tackling midfielder hadn’t played for Italy in 18 months and, after being sacked by Roma in Mar 1934 for disciplinary reasons, had depressed low into alcoholism and gambling. “Leave your cigarettes, drinks and billiards evidence immediately, come with me, and we have a possibility of personification during a World Cup,” Pozzo told Ferraris in no capricious terms. Amazingly, notwithstanding being drunk, Ferraris followed Pozzo and incited adult during Lake Maggiore for Italy’s pre-World Cup training camp, according to Pozzo, “in a best figure out of everyone”.

2 World Cup finals for dual opposite countries in a eminence singular to Monti. The tough midfielder played for Argentina, his nation of birth, opposite Uruguay in 1930, and for Italy opposite Czechoslovakia in 1934.

1.3 goals per diversion is what Gino Colaussi managed for Italy in 1938 – a record for an Italian during a World Cup. His strike partner Silvio Piola averaged 1.2 goals per game. They are followed by Christian Vieri (1.0), Angelo Schiavio (1.0), Riccardo Carapellese (1.0), Toto Schillaci (0.86), Alessandro Altobelli (0.71), Paolo Rossi (0.64), Raimundo Orsi (0.60) and Roberto Baggio (0.56).

1 win in 12 matches: that was Italy’s unnerving record opposite Austria streamer into their 1934 semi-final. The Wunderteam had crushed La Nazionale 4-0 in Genoa and won their final assembly 4-2 in Turin in a Central European Cup in Feb 1934. Italy but caused a vital dissapoint by gripping a purify piece and eking out feat interjection to Enrique Guaita.

1 World Cup Final has concerned both sides being captained by goalkeepers – a 1934 decider. Giampiero Combi and Frantisek Planicka skippered Italy and Czechoslovakia respectively.

0 purify sheets is what usually one World Cup-winning side kept – Italy in ’38. Gli Azzuri beat Norway 2-1, France 3-1, Brazil 2-1 and Hungary 4-2.

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