Blocco-Juve

Blocco-Juve (, Juve Block), also known as Blocco Juventus,[1][2][3] (, Juventus Block) was the nickname of the group of Juventus FC players called up to have been the backbone to the Italy national football team managed by Enzo Bearzot to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final and reached the semifinals of the 1978 FIFA World Cup and in the 1980 European Championship.

With this group the side managed by Giovanni Trapattoni dominated the Italian football and had one of the best teams in Europe and the world since the second half of the 1970s to the first half of the 1980s,[4] winning amongst others six national championships, two Italian Cups and all international club competitions (world record),[5] and included Dino Zoff, Claudio Gentile, Gaetano Scirea, Antonio Cabrini, Marco Tardelli, Roberto Bettega and Paolo Rossi.

Players

Notable Italy players during their careers at Juventus in this time period.

  • Pietro Anastasi
  • Romeo Benetti
  • Roberto Bettega
  • Antonio Cabrini
  • Franco Causio
  • Antonello Cuccureddu
  • Giuseppe Furino
  • Claudio Gentile
  • Francesco Morini
  • Paolo Rossi
  • Gaetano Scirea
  • Luciano Spinosi
  • Marco Tardelli
  • Dino Zoff

See also

  • Italy national football team
  • Juventus F.C. and the Italy national football team
  • Juventus F.C. in European football
  • Nazio-Juve
  • List of players to have won all international club competitions
  • List of players to have won the three main UEFA club competitions

Footnotes and references

Bibliography

References

  1. Mondiali Memories, Argentina 1978: Bearzot builds a reputation www.channel4.com, 3 April 2009^
  2. See also: Cabrini: "What I most felt was relief" www.fifa.com, 15 June 2008 Bearzot: "Football is first and foremost a game" www.fifa.com, 15 June 2008^
  3. See also: Italia-Inghilterra nella storia www2.raisport.rai.it, 8 October 1997, retrieved 3 April 2009 Quando il mondo è azzurro Il Giornale, 10 July 2006^
  4. Os Esquadrões: Juventus Placar, October 1991^
  5. Which includes all official international competitions recognized by one of the six continental football confederations and the Intercontinental Cup / FIFA Club World Cup. See: List of UEFA club competitions UEFA, retrieved 21 August 2006^