Italy kits World Cup 1998 France

Azzurri FIFA World Cup 98, goalkeeper kit's worn by Gianliuca Pagliuca, first pitchure above indicating it was away uniform.

The kit has no. 10 indicating it was the kit of forward Alessandro Del Piero, who at the time untill now played with Juventus. The Italian whole blue home kits, however made appearance for second-round match againts Norway, 27th Jun 1998 Azzurri win 1-0, and then in quaterfinal when they lost on penalty 4-3 against France after extra time still 0-0.

Home kits with the white short, all worn in first-round match againts Cameroon they beat 3-0 and win over Austria 2-1 to be the top of Group B

The tournament kit for home & away without Nike manufacture logo at shirt, short and sock presents all the difference from the replica.

Italy did not progress beyond the group stage at the finals of Euro 96. Gianfranco Zola failed to convert a decisive penalty against Germany, who eventually won the tournament. Then, during the qualifying campaign for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the Azzurri beat England at Wembley for the second time with Zola scoring the only goal. In the final tournament, Italy found themselves in another critical shootout for the third World Cup in a row. The Italian side, where Del Piero and Baggio renewed the controversial staffetta (relay) between Mazzola and Rivera from 1970, held the eventual World Champions and host team France to a 0-0 draw after extra time in the quarterfinals, but lost 4-3 in the shootout. With two goals scored in this tournament, Roberto Baggio is still the only Italian player to have scored in three different FIFA World Cup editions.
The away kit made one appearance only for the tournament, match against Chile, 11th June their first match with the score 2-2 by their ace Christian Vieri and Roberto Bagio.

Ilustrate replica uniform above presents all the the diference from the tournament kits, with the Nike logo, label and written with Nike dryfit.

Azzurris 1998 FIFA World Cup squads :

1 GK Francesco Toldo, 2 DF Giuseppe Bergomi, 3 DF Paolo Maldini, 4 DF Fabio Cannavaro, 5 DF Alessandro Costacurta, 6 DF Alessandro Nesta, 7 DF Gianluca Pessotto, 8 DF Moreno Torricelli, 9 MD Demetrio Albertini, 10 FW Alessandro Del Piero, 11 MD Dino Baggio, 12 GK Gianluca Pagliuca, 13 MD Sandro Cois, 14 MD Luigi Di Biagio, 15 MD Angelo Di Livio, 16 MD Roberto Di Matteo, 17 MD Francesco Moriero, 18 FW Roberto Baggio, 19 FW Filippo Inzaghi, 20 FW Enrico Chiesa, 21 FW Christian Vieri, 22 GK Gianluigi Buffon, Coach: Cesare Maldini

For match results http://www.planetworldcup.com/