The four-time World Cup winners Azzurri are widely known for their defensive legends, 258,795 Afers have voted for their all-time Italy XI, here are the results:
Goalkeeper:
Buffon (93.2% of votes)
Buffon is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for French club Paris Saint-Germain. He is widely regarded by players, pundits and managers as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time and, by some, as the greatest ever.
Defenders:
Maldini (23.3% of votes)
Maldini is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a left-back and central defender for A.C. Milan and the Italy national team. He won 25 trophies with Milan: the UEFA Champions League five times, seven Serie A titles, one Coppa Italia, five Supercoppa Italiana titles, four European Super Cups, two Intercontinental Cups and one FIFA Club World Cup.
Cannavaro (21.2% of votes)
Cannavaro was named the 2006 FIFA World Player of the Year, and won the Ballon d'Or award in 2006 which made him the only defender to win the award in a decade and only the third of all time after Franz Beckenbauer and Matthias Sammer. He was in the six man shortlist for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year.
Materazzi (13.4% of votes)
Materazzi played with various Italian teams in Serie B and Serie C, and with Everton in the Premier League. He signed for Internazionale in 2001 for €10 million. At club level, he won a number of major honors with Inter including five Serie A league titles in a row from 2006 to 2010, one UEFA Champions League, one FIFA Club World Cup, four Coppa Italia titles, and the Supercoppa Italiana four times.
Zambrotta (12.1% of votes)
Zambrotta played for several different Italian clubs. He won two consecutive Serie A and Supercoppa Italiana titles in 2002 and 2003, also reaching the 2003 UEFA Champions League final. He also later spent two relatively unsuccessful seasons with Barcelona between 2006 and 2008, where he won the 2006 Supercopa de España.
Midfielders:
Pirlo (12.1% of votes)
Pirlo is an Italian former professional footballer. Pirlo was usually deployed as a deep-lying playmaker in midfield for both his club and national sides and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever exponents of this position due to his vision, ball control, creativity and passing ability, as well as for being a free-kick specialist.
Antonioni （22.3% of votes)
Giancarlo Antognoni is a former Italian footballer, who played as a midfielder. A skillful and creative offensive playmaker, regarded as one the best Italian players of all time in his position, he won the 1982 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team, and he also represented his country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup, and at the 1980 UEFA European Championship, finishing in fourth place on both occasions.
Albertini (20.8% of votes)
Demetrio Albertini is the sporting director of Parma and a former professional Italian football midfielder and vice-president of the Italian Football Federation. A vital member of the Italian national team, Albertini was part of the squads that competed at the World Cups of 1994 and 1998, as well as the 1996 and 2000 European Championships, reaching the finals of the 1994 World Cup and Euro 2000.
Forwards:
Totti (44.8% of votes)
Francesco Totti is an Italian former professional footballer who played for Roma and the Italy national team. Totti spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles. He is the second-highest scorer of all time in Italian league history with 250 goals, and is the sixth-highest scoring Italian in all competitions with 316 goals.
Baggio (26.7% of votes)
Baggio played for Italy in 56 matches, scoring 27 goals, and is the joint fourth-highest goalscorer for his national team, alongside Alessandro Del Piero. At the 1994 World Cup, he led Italy to the final, scoring five goals, received the World Cup Silver Ball and was named in the World Cup All-Star Team. n 2002, Baggio became the first Italian player in over 50 years to score more than 300 career goals.
Rossi (16.2% of votes)
Paolo Rossi is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a forward. In 1982, he led Italy to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot as top goalscorer, and the Golden Ball for the player of the tournament. Rossi is one of only three players to have won all three awards at a World Cup, along with Garrincha in 1962, and Mario Kempes in 1978. Rossi was also awarded the 1982 Ballon d'Or as the European Footballer of the Year for his performances. Along with Roberto Baggio and Christian Vieri, he is Italy's top scorer in World Cup history, with nine goals in total.
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