document_title: Italy national football team

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text: Italy national football team

text: History[edit]

text: 1910–1938: Origins and first two World Cups[edit]

text: The team's first match was held in Milan on 15 May 1910. Italy defeated France by a score of 6–2, with Italy's first goal scored by Pietro Lana.[1][2][3] Some turmoil kept the players of Pro Vercelli, who were the best team in the league, out of the game. At the end of the match, the players received some cigarette packets thrown by the 4,000 spectators as a prize.[4] The Italian team played with a (2–3–5) system and consisted of: De Simoni; Varisco, Calì; Trerè, Fossati, Capello; Debernardi, Rizzi, Cevenini I, Lana, Boiocchi. First captain of the team was Francesco Calì.[5]

text: The first success in an official tournament came with the bronze medal in 1928 Summer Olympics, held in Amsterdam. After losing the semi-final against Uruguay, an 11–3 victory against Egypt secured third place in the competition. In the 1927–30 and 1933–35 Central European International Cup, Italy achieved the first place out of five Central European teams, topping the group with 11 points in both editions of the tournament.[6][7]

text: After declining to participate in the first World Cup (1930, in Uruguay) the Italian national team won two consecutive editions of the tournament in 1934 and 1938, under the direction of coach Vittorio Pozzo and the performance of Giuseppe Meazza, who is considered one of the best Italian football players of all time by some.[8][9] Other stars of that era included Luis Monti, Giovanni Ferrari, Giuseppe Ruffino and Virginio Rosetta. The hosts, Azzurri, defeated Czechoslovakia 2–1 in extra time in Rome, with goals by Raimundo Orsi and Angelo Schiavio to achieve their first World cup title in 1934. They achieved their second title in a 4–2 defeat of Hungary, with two goals by Gino Colaussi and two goals by Silvio Piola in the World Cup that followed.

text: 1946–1966: Post-World War II[edit]

text: In 1949, 10 of the 11 players in the team's initial line-up were killed in the Superga air disaster that affected Torino, winners of the previous five Serie A titles. Italy did not advance further than the first round of the 1950 World Cup, as they were weakened severely due to the air disaster. The team had travelled by boat rather than by plane, fearing another accident.[10]

text: In the World Cup finals of 1954 and 1962, Italy failed to progress past the first round, and did not qualify for the 1958 World Cup. Italy did not take part in the first edition of the European Championship in 1960 (then known as the European Nations Cup), and was knocked out by the Soviet Union in the round of 16 of the 1964 European Championship.

text: Their participation in the 1966 World Cup was ended by a 0–1 defeat at the hands of North Korea. Despite being the tournament favourites, the Azzurri, whose 1966 squad included Gianni Rivera and Giacomo Bulgarelli, were eliminated in the first round by the semi-professional North Koreans. The Italian team was bitterly condemned upon their return home, while North Korean scorer Pak Doo-ik was celebrated as the David who killed Goliath.[11]

text: 1968–1976: European champions and World Cup runners-up[edit]

text: In 1968, the Azzurri won their first major competition since the 1938 World Cup, beating Yugoslavia in Rome for the European Championship title. The match holds the distinction of being the only European Championship or World Cup final to go to a replay.[12] After extra time the final ended in a 1–1 draw, and in the days before penalty shootouts, the rules required the match to be replayed a few days later. Italy won the replay 2–0 (with goals from Luigi Riva and Pietro Anastasi) to take the trophy.

text: In the 1970 World Cup, exploiting the performances of European champions' players like Giacinto Facchetti, Gianni Rivera and Luigi Riva and with a new center-forward Roberto Boninsegna, the team were able to come back to a World Cup final match after 32 years. They reached this result after one of the most famous matches in football history: Italy vs. West Germany 4–3, which is known as the "Game of the Century".[13] They were defeated by Brazil in the final. The cycle of international successes ended in the 1974 World Cup, when the team was eliminated by Grzegorz Lato's Polish team in the first round.

text: 1978–1986: The third World Cup generation[edit]

text: In the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, a new generation of Italian players, the most famous being Paolo Rossi, came to the international stage. Italy were the only team in the tournament to beat the eventual champions and host team Argentina. Second-round games against West Germany (0–0), Austria (1–0) and Netherlands (1–2) led Italy to the third-place final, where the team was defeated by Brazil 2–1. In the match that eliminated Italy from the tournament against the Netherlands, Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff was beaten by a long-distance shot from Arie Haan, and Zoff was criticized for the defeat.[14] Italy hosted the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship, the first edition to be held between eight teams instead of four,[15] automatically qualifying for the finals as hosts. After two draws with Spain and Belgium and a narrow 1–0 win over England, Italy were beaten by Czechoslovakia in the third-place match on penalties 9–8 after Fulvio Collovati missed his kick.

text: After a scandal in Serie A where some National team players such as Paolo Rossi[16] were prosecuted and suspended for match fixing and illegal betting. The Azzurri qualified for the second round of the 1982 World Cup after three uninspiring draws against Poland, Peru and Cameroon. Having been loudly criticized, the Italian team decided on a press black-out from then on, with only coach Enzo Bearzot and captain Dino Zoff appointed to speak to the press.

text: Italy's regrouped in the second round group, a group of death with Argentina and Brazil. In the opener, Italy prevailed 2–1 over Argentina, with Italy's goals, both left-footed strikes, were scored by Marco Tardelli and Antonio Cabrini. After Brazil defeated Argentina 3–1, Italy needed to win in order to advance to the semi-finals. Twice Italy went in the lead with Paolo Rossi's goals, and twice Brazil came back. When Falcão scored to make it 2–2, Brazil would have been through on goal difference, but in the 74th minute Rossi scored the winning goal, for a hat-trick, in a crowded penalty area to send Italy to the semifinals after one of the greatest games in World Cup history.[17][18][19] Italy then progressed to the semi final where they defeated Poland with two goals from Rossi.

text: In the final, Italy met West Germany, who had advanced by a penalty shootout victory against France. The first half ended scoreless, after Antonio Cabrini missed a penalty awarded for a Hans-Peter Briegel foul on Bruno Conti. In the second half Paolo Rossi again scored the first goal, and while the Germans were pushing forward in search of an equaliser, Marco Tardelli and substitute Alessandro Altobelli finalised two contropiede counterattacks to make it 3–0. Paul Breitner scored home West Germany's consolation goal seven minutes from the end.

text: Tardelli's cry, "Gol! Gol!" was one of the defining images of Italy's 1982 World Cup triumph.[20] Paolo Rossi won the Golden Boot with six goals as well as the Golden Ball Award for the best player of the tournament,[21] and 40-year-old captain-goalkeeper Dino Zoff became the oldest player to win the World Cup.[22]

text: However, Italy failed to qualify for the 1984 European Championship.[23][24] Italy then entered as reigning champions in the 1986 World Cup[25][26][27] but were eliminated by reigning European Champions, France, in the round of 16.[28]

text: 1988–2000: World Cup and European Championship runners-up[edit]

text: 1986 also led to Bearzot's departure, with Azeglio Vicini appointed in his place.[29] New coach conceded a chance to young players, such as Ciro Ferrara and Gianluca Vialli:[30] Sampdoria striker scored goals that gave Italy 1988 European Championship pass.[31] He was also shown like Altobelli's possibly successor, having his same goal attitude.[32] Both forwards stroke the target in Germany, where Soviet Union defeated azzurri in semi-finals.[33]

text: Italy hosted the World Cup for the second time in 1990. The Italian attack featured talented forwards Salvatore Schillaci and a young Roberto Baggio. Despite being favourites[34] to win, playing nearly all of their matches in Rome and not conceding a goal in their first five matches, Italy lost in the semi-final to defending champion Argentina in Naples, losing 4–3 on penalty kicks following a 1–1 draw after extra time, Schillaci's first half opener having been equalised in the second half by Claudio Caniggia's header for Argentina. Aldo Serena missed the final penalty kick (with Roberto Donadoni also having his penalty saved by goalkeeper Sergio Goycochea). Italy went on to defeat England 2–1 in the third place match in Bari, with Schillaci scoring the winning goal on a penalty to become the tournament's top scorer with six goals. Italy then failed to qualify for the 1992 European Championship.

text: At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, Italy lost the opening match against Ireland 0–1 at the Giants Stadium near New York City. After a 1–0 win against Norway in New York City and a 1–1 draw with Mexico at the RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., Italy advanced from Group E based on goals scored among the four teams tied on points. During their round of 16 match at the Foxboro Stadium near Boston, Italy was down 0–1 late against Nigeria, but Baggio rescued Italy with an equaliser in the 88th minute and a penalty in extra time to take the win.[35] Baggio scored another late goal against Spain at their quarter-final match in Boston to seal a 2–1 win and two goals against Bulgaria in their semi-final match in New York City for another 2–1 win.[36][37]

text: In the final, which took place in Los Angeles's Rose Bowl stadium 2,700 miles (4,320 km) and three time zones away from the Atlantic Northeast part of the United States where they had played all their previous matches, Italy, who had 24 hours less rest than Brazil, played 120 minutes of scoreless football, taking the match to a penalty shootout. Italy lost the subsequent shootout 3–2 after Baggio, who had been playing with the aid of a pain-killer injection[38] and a heavily bandaged hamstring,[39][40] missed the final penalty kick of the match, shooting over the crossbar.[41][42]

text: Italy did not progress beyond the group stage at the finals of Euro 1996. Having defeated Russia 2–1 but losing to the Czech Republic by the same score, Italy required a win to be sure of progressing. Gianfranco Zola failed to convert a decisive penalty in a 0–0 draw against Germany,[43] who eventually won the tournament. Then, during the qualifying campaign for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the Azzurri beat England at Wembley Stadium 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 Alessandro 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 quarter-finals, but lost 4–3 in the shootout. With two goals scored in this tournament, Baggio is still the only Italian player to have scored in three different FIFA World Cup editions.[44]

text: In the Euro 2000, another shootout decided Italy's fate but this time in their favour when defeating the co-hosts the Netherlands in the semi final. Italian goalkeeper Francesco Toldo saved one penalty during the match and two in the shootout, while the Dutch players missed one other penalty during the match and one during the shootout with a rate of one penalty scored out of six attempts. Emerging star Francesco Totti scored his penalty with a cucchiaio ("spoon") chip. Italy finished the tournament as runners-up, losing the final 2–1 against France (to a golden goal in extra time) after conceding les Bleus equalising goal just 30 seconds before the expected end of injury time (93rd minute). After the defeat, coach Dino Zoff resigned in protest after being criticized by Milan club president and politician Silvio Berlusconi.[45]

text: 2000–2004: Trapattoni Era[edit]

text: In the 2002 World Cup, a 2–0 victory against Ecuador with two Christian Vieri goals was followed by a series of controversial matches. During the match against Croatia, two goals were disallowed resulting in a 2–1 defeat for Italy. Despite two goals being ruled for borderline offsides, a late headed goal from Alessandro Del Piero helped Italy to a 1–1 draw with Mexico proving enough to advance to the knockout stages. However, co-host country South Korea eliminated Italy in the round of 16 by a score of 2–1. The game was highly controversial with members of the Italian team, most notably striker Francesco Totti and coach Giovanni Trapattoni, suggesting a conspiracy to eliminate Italy from the competition.[46] Trapattoni even obliquely accused FIFA of ordering the official to ensure a Korean victory so that one of the two host nations would remain in the tournament.[47] The most contentious decisions by the game referee Byron Moreno were an early penalty awarded to South Korea (saved by Buffon), a golden goal by Damiano Tommasi ruled offside, and the sending off of Totti after being presented with a second yellow card for an alleged dive in the penalty area.[48] FIFA President Sepp Blatter stated that the linesmen had been a "disaster" and admitted that Italy suffered from bad offside calls during the group matches, but he denied conspiracy allegations. While questioning Totti's sending off by Moreno, Blatter refused to blame Italy's loss entirely on the referees, stating: "Italy's elimination is not only down to referees and linesmen who made human not premeditated errors ... Italy made mistakes both in defense and in attack."[49]

text: A three-way five point tie in the group stage of the 2004 European Championship left Italy as the "odd man out", as they failed to qualify for the quarter finals after finishing behind Denmark and Sweden on the basis of number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams. Italy's winning goal scored during stoppage time giving them a 2–1 victory over Bulgaria by Antonio Cassano proved futile, ending the team's tournament.

text: 2006: Fourth World Cup title[edit]

text: The summer of 2004 marked the choice, by FIGC, to appoint Marcello Lippi for Italy's bench.[50] He made his debut in an upset 2–0 defeat in Iceland[51] but then managed to qualify for 2006 World Cup.[52][53] Italy's campaign in the tournament hosted by Germany was accompanied by open pessimism[54] due to the controversy caused by the 2006 Serie A scandal, however these negative predictions were then refuted, as the Azzurri eventually won their fourth World Cup.

text: Italy won their opening game against Ghana 2–0, with goals from Andrea Pirlo (40th minute) and substitute Vincenzo Iaquinta (83rd minute). The team performance was judged the best among the opening games by FIFA President Sepp Blatter.[55]

text: The second match was a less convincing 1–1 draw with United States, with Alberto Gilardino's diving header equalized by a Cristian Zaccardo own goal. After the equaliser, midfielder Daniele De Rossi and the United States's Pablo Mastroeni and Eddie Pope were sent off, leaving only nine men on the field for nearly the entirety of the second half, but the score remained unchanged despite a controversial decision when Gennaro Gattuso's shot was deflected in but disallowed because of an offside ruling. The same happened at the other end when U.S. winger DaMarcus Beasley's goal was not given due to teammate Brian McBride being ruled offside. De Rossi was suspended for four matches for elbowing McBride in the face and would only return for the final match.

text: Italy finished first in Group E with a 2–0 win against the Czech Republic, with goals from defender Marco Materazzi (26th minute) and striker Filippo Inzaghi (87th minute), advancing to the Round of 16 in the knockout stages, where they faced Australia. In this match, Materazzi was controversially sent off early in the second half (53rd minute) after an attempted two-footed tackle on Australian midfielder Marco Bresciano. In stoppage time a controversial penalty kick was awarded to the Azzurri when referee Luis Medina Cantalejo ruled that Lucas Neill fouled Fabio Grosso. Francesco Totti converted into an upper corner of the goal past Mark Schwarzer for a 1–0 win.[56]

text: In the quarterfinals Italy beat Ukraine 3–0. Gianluca Zambrotta opened the scoring early (in the sixth minute) with a left-footed shot from outside the penalty area after a quick exchange with Totti created enough space. Luca Toni added two more goals in the second half (59th and 69th minute), as Ukraine pressed forward but were not able to score, hitting the crossbar and requiring several saves from Gianluigi Buffon and a goal-line clearance from Zambrotta. Afterwards, manager Marcello Lippi dedicated the victory to former Italian international Gianluca Pessotto, who was in the hospital recovering from an apparent suicide attempt.[57]

text: In the semi-finals, Italy beat hosts Germany 2–0 with the two goals coming in the last two minutes of extra time. After a back-and-forth half-hour of extra time during which Alberto Gilardino and Gianluca Zambrotta struck the post and the crossbar respectively, Fabio Grosso scored in the 119th minute after a disguised Andrea Pirlo pass found him open in the penalty area for a bending left-footed shot into the far corner past German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann's dive. Substitute striker Alessandro Del Piero then sealed the victory by scoring with the last kick of the game at the end of a swift counterattack by Cannavaro, Totti and Gilardino.[58]

text: The Azzurri won their fourth World Cup, defeating their long-time rivals France in Berlin, on 9 July, 5–3 on penalty kicks after a 1–1 draw at the end of extra time in the final. French captain Zinedine Zidane opened the scoring in the seventh minute with a chipped penalty kick, awarded for a controversial foul by Materazzi on Florent Malouda. Twelve minutes later, a header by Materazzi from a corner kick by Pirlo brought Italy even. In the second half, a potential winning goal by Toni was disallowed for a very close offside call by linesman Luc La Rossa. In the 110th minute, Zidane (playing in the last match of his career) was sent off by referee Horacio Elizondo for headbutting Materazzi in the chest after a verbal exchange;[59] Italy then won the penalty shootout 5–3; the crucial penalty miss being David Trezeguet's, the same player who scored the golden goal for France in the Euro 2000. Trezeguet's attempt hit the crossbar, then shot down after its impact, and just stayed ahead of the line.[60]

text: Ten different players scored for Italy in the tournament, and five goals out of twelve were scored by substitutes, while four goals were scored by defenders. Seven players — Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluca Zambrotta, Andrea Pirlo, Gennaro Gattuso, Francesco Totti and Luca Toni — were named to the 23-man tournament All Star Team.[61] Buffon also won the Lev Yashin Award, given to the best goalkeeper of the tournament; he conceded only two goals in the tournament's seven matches, the first an own goal by Zaccardo and the second from Zidane's penalty kick in the final, and remained unbeaten for 460 consecutive minutes.[62] In honour of Italy winning the FIFA World Cup for a fourth time, all members of the World Cup-winning squad were awarded the Italian Order of Merit of Cavaliere Ufficiale.[63][64]

text: 2006–2010: Post World Cup and Lippi's second term[edit]

text: After the Italian triumph in the World Cup, 1994 World Cup star Roberto Donadoni was announced the new coach of the Azzurri. He replaced Marcello Lippi, who had announced his resignation before the World Cup's start.[65] Italy played in the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying Group B, along with France. Italy won the group, with France being the runner-up. On 14 February 2007, FIFA ranked Italy first in the FIFA World Rankings, with a total of 1,488 points, 37 points ahead of second ranked Argentina. This moved them up one from their previous rank, second. The Azzurri had not received such an honour since 1993.[66]

text: In Euro 2008, the Azzurri lost 0–3 to the Netherlands. The following game against Romania ended 1–1, with a goal by Christian Panucci that came only one minute after Romania's Adrian Mutu capitalized on a mistake by Gianluca Zambrotta to give Romania the lead.[67] The result was preserved by Gianluigi Buffon who saved a penalty kick from Mutu in the 80th minute.[67]

text: The final group game against France, a rematch of the 2006 World Cup Final, was a 2–0 Italy win. Andrea Pirlo scored from the penalty spot after a foul and red card for France defender Éric Abidal, and later a free kick by Daniele De Rossi took a deflection resulting Italy's second goal. Romania, entering the day a point ahead of the Italians in Group C, lost to the Netherlands 2–0, allowing Italy to pass into the quarter finals against eventual champions Spain, where they lost 2–4 on penalties after a 0–0 draw after 120 minutes. Within a week after the game, Roberto Donadoni's contract was terminated and Marcello Lippi was rehired as coach.[68]

text: By virtue of winning the World Cup, Italy qualified for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, held in South Africa in June 2009. They won their opening match 3–1 against the United States, but subsequent defeats to Egypt (0–1) and Brazil (0–3) meant that they only finished third in the group on goals scored, and were eliminated.

text: The national football team of Italy qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup after playing home games at Stadio Friuli, Stadio Via del Mare, Stadio San Nicola, Stadio Olimpico di Torino and Stadio Ennio Tardini. In October 2009, they achieved qualification after drawing with the Republic of Ireland 2–2. On 4 December 2009, the draw for the World Cup was made: Italy would be in Group F alongside three underdog teams: Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia.

text: At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, reigning champions Italy were unexpectedly eliminated in the first round, finishing last place in their group. After being held to 1–1 draws by Paraguay and New Zealand, they suffered a 3–2 loss to Slovakia.[69] It was the first time Italy failed to win a single game at a World Cup finals tournament, and in doing so became the third nation to be eliminated in the first round while holding the World Cup crown, the first one being Brazil in 1966 and the second France in 2002.[70] Spain would become the fourth at the 2014 World Cup.[71] Coincidentally, France who had been Italy's adversaries and the losing finalist in the 2006 World Cup, were also eliminated without winning a game in the first round in South Africa, making it the first time ever that neither finalist of the previous edition were able to reach the second round.[72]

text: 2010–2014: European Championship runners-up[edit]

text: Marcello Lippi stepped down after Italy's World Cup campaign and was replaced by Cesare Prandelli, although Lippi's successor had already been announced before the tournament.[73] Italy began their campaign with Prandelli with a disappointing 0–1 loss to the Ivory Coast in a friendly match.[74] Then, during a Euro 2012 qualifier, Italy came back from behind to defeat Estonia 2–1. In the next Euro qualifier, Italy dominated the Faroe Islands 5–0. Italy then tied 0–0 with Northern Ireland. Five days later, Italy played Serbia; however, Serbian fans in Stadio Luigi Ferraris began to riot, throwing flares and shooting fireworks onto the pitch, subsequently causing the abandonment of the game.[75] Upon UEFA Disciplinary Review, Italy was awarded a 3–0 victory that propelled them to the top of their group.[76] In their first match of 2011, Italy drew 1–1 a friendly with Germany at Dortmund, in the same stadium where they beat Germany 2–0 to advance to the final of the 2006 World Cup. In March 2011, Italy won 1–0 over Slovenia to again secure its spot at the top of the qualification table. They then defeated Ukraine 2–0 in a friendly, despite being reduced to ten men for the late stages of the match. With their 3–0 defeat of Estonia in another Euro 2012 qualifier, Prandelli's Italy secured the table lead and also achieved 9 undefeated games in a row since their initial debacle. The streak was ended on 7 June 2011 by Trapattoni's current charges, the Republic of Ireland, with Italy losing 0–2 in a friendly in Liège.

text: At the beginning of the second season under coach Prandelli, on 10 August 2011, Italy defeated the reigning world champions Spain for 2–1 in a friendly match played in Bari's Stadio San Nicola, but lost in a friendly to the United States, 1–0, on home soil on 29 February 2012.[77]

text: Italy started their Euro 2012 campaign with a 1–1 draw to current reigning European and world champions Spain. Following this they met Croatia and were also held to a 1–1 draw. They finished second in their group behind Spain by beating the Republic of Ireland 2–0, which earned them a quarter final match against the winners of group D, England. After a mostly one-sided affair in which Italy failed to take their chances, they managed to best England on penalty kicks, even though they were down early in the shootout. A save by goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon put them ahead after a chip shot from Andrea Pirlo. Prandelli's side won the shootout 4–2.[78][79]

text: In their next game, the first semi-final of the competition, they faced Germany team who were tipped by many to be the next European champions.[80][81][82][83][84] However, two first-half goals by Mario Balotelli saw Germany sent home, and the Italians went through to the finals to face the title defenders Spain.

text: In the final, however, they were unable to repeat their earlier performance against Spain, falling 4–0 to lose the championship. Prandelli's men were further undone by the string of injuries which left them playing with ten men for the last half-hour, as substitute Thiago Motta was forced to go off after all three substitutions had been made.[85]

text: During the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil, Italy started in a group with Mexico, Japan and Brazil. After beating Mexico 2–1 and Japan 4–3, Italy eventually lost their final group game against tournament hosts Brazil 4–2. Italy then faced Spain in the semi-finals, in a rematch of the Euro 2012 final. Italy lost 7–6 (0–0 after extra time) in a penalty shoot-out after Leonardo Bonucci failed to score his kick.[86] Prandelli was praised for his tactics against the current World Cup and European champions.[87] Italy was then able to win the match for the third place by defeating Uruguay with the penalty score of 5–4 (2–2 after extra time).

text: Italy was drawn in UEFA Group B for the 2014 World Cup qualification campaign. They won the qualifying group without losing a match. Despite this successful run they were not seeded in pot 1 for the final seeding. In December 2013, Italy was drawn in Group D against Costa Rica, England and Uruguay. In its first match, Italy defeated England 2–1. However, in the second group stage match, underdogs Costa Rica beat the Italians 1–0.[88] In Italy's last group match, they were knocked out by Uruguay 1–0, due in part to two controversial calls from referee Marco Antonio Rodríguez (Mexico): in the 59th minute, midfielder Claudio Marchisio was sent off for a questionable tackle.[89][90] Later in the 80th minute, with the teams knotted at 0–0 which would have sent Italy to the next round, Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez bit defender Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder but was not sent off.[91][92] Uruguay went on to score moments later in the 81st minute with a Diego Godín header from a corner kick, winning the game 1–0 and eliminating Italy. This marked Italy's second consecutive failure to reach the round of 16 at the World Cup finals. Shortly after this loss, coach Cesare Prandelli resigned.[93]

text: 2014–2016: Euro 2016 campaign[edit]

text: The successful former Juventus manager Antonio Conte was selected to replace Cesare Prandelli as coach after the 2014 World Cup. Conte's debut as manager was against 2014 World Cup semi-finalists the Netherlands, in which Italy won 2–0. Italy's first defeat under Conte came ten games in to his empowerment from a 1–0 international friendly loss against Portugal on 16 June 2015.[94] On 10 October 2015, Italy qualified for Euro 2016, courtesy of a 3–1 win over Azerbaijan;[95] the result meant that Italy had managed to go 50 games unbeaten in European qualifiers.[96] Three days later, with a 2–1 win over Norway, Italy topped their Euro 2016 qualifying group with 24 points; four points clear of second placed Croatia.[97] However, with a similar fate to the 2014 World Cup group stage draw, Italy were not top seeded into the first pot. This had Italy see a draw with Belgium, Sweden and the Republic of Ireland in Group E.[98]

text: On 4 April 2016, it was announced that Antonio Conte would step down as Italy coach after Euro 2016 to become head coach of English club Chelsea at the start of the 2016–17 Premier League season.[99] The 23-man squad saw notable absences with Andrea Pirlo and Sebastian Giovinco controversially left out[100] and Claudio Marchisio and Marco Verratti omitted due to injury.[101][102] Italy opened Euro 2016 with a 2–0 victory over Belgium on 13 June.[103] Italy qualified for the round of 16 with one game to spare on 17 June with a lone goal by Éder for the victory against Sweden; the first time they won the second group game in a major international tournament since Euro 2000.[104] Italy also finished top of the group for the first time in a major tournament since the 2006 World Cup.[105] Italy defeated reigning European champions Spain 2–0 in the round of 16 match on 27 June.[106] Italy then faced off against the reigning World champions, rivals Germany, in the quarter-finals. Mesut Özil opened the scoring in the 65th minute for Germany, before Leonardo Bonucci converted a penalty in the 78th minute for Italy. The score remained 1–1 after extra time and Germany beat Italy 6–5 in the ensuing penalty shoot-out. It was the first time Germany overcame Italy in a major tournament.[107][108]

text: 2016–present: Failure to qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup and rebuild[edit]

text: After Conte's departure, Gian Piero Ventura took over as manager for the team, on 18 July 2016, signing a two-year contract.[109] His first match at the helm was a friendly against France, held at the Stadio San Nicola on 1 September, which ended in a 3–1 loss.[110] Four days later, he won his first competitive match in charge of Italy, the team's opening 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Israel at Haifa, which ended in a 3–1 victory for Italy.[111]

text: Italy finished in Group G in second place behind Spain, and advanced to the play-off against Sweden. After a 1–0 aggregate loss to Sweden, Italy failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1958.[112] Immediately following the match, veterans Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, Daniele De Rossi and captain Gianluigi Buffon all declared their retirement from the national team.[113][114][115][116][117] On November 15, 2017, Ventura was dismissed as head coach[118] and on 20 November 2017, Carlo Tavecchio, resigned as president of the Italian Football Federation.[119][120]

text: Coaching staff[edit]

text: During the earliest days of Italian nation football, it was common for a Technical Commission to be appointed. The Commission took the role that a standard coach would currently play. Ever since 1967, the national team has been controlled by the coaches only.

text: For this reason, the coach of the Italian national team is still called Technical Commissioner (Commissario tecnico or CT, the use of this denomination has since then expanded into other team sports in Italy).

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Technical Commission (1910–1912)
Vittorio Pozzo (1912)
Technical Commission (1912–1924)
Vittorio Pozzo (1924)
Technical Commission (1924–1925)
Augusto Rangone (1925–1928) — Central European International Cup Champions 1927–30, Third Place Summer Olympics 1928
Carlo Carcano (1928–1929)
Vittorio Pozzo (1929–1948) — Central European International Cup Champions 1927–30, Central European International Cup Champions 1933–35, World Champions 1934, First Place Summer Olympics 1936, World Champions 1938, Runners-Up Central European International Cup 1931–32, Central European International Cup 1936–38[nb 1]
Ferruccio Novo (1949–1950) — as Technical Commission Chairman
Technical Commission (1951)
Carlino Beretta (1952–1953)
Technical Commission (1953–1959)
Giuseppe Viani (1960)
Giovanni Ferrari (1960–1961)
Technical Commission (1962)
Edmondo Fabbri (1962–1966)
Technical Commission (1966–1967)
Ferruccio Valcareggi (1967–1974) — European Champions 1968, Runners-Up World Cup 1970
Fulvio Bernardini (1974–1975)
Enzo Bearzot (1975–1986) — World Champions 1982, 4th Place World Cup 1978, 4th Place European Championship 1980
Azeglio Vicini (1986–1991) — Semifinalist European Championship 1988, Third Place World Cup 1990
Arrigo Sacchi (1991–1996) — Runners-Up World Cup 1994
Cesare Maldini (1997–1998)
Dino Zoff (1998–2000) — Runners-Up European Championship 2000
Giovanni Trapattoni (2000–2004)
Marcello Lippi (2004–2006) — World Champions 2006
Roberto Donadoni (2006–2008)
Marcello Lippi (2008–2010)
Cesare Prandelli (2010–2014) — Runners-Up European Championship 2012, Third Place Confederations Cup 2013
Antonio Conte (2014–2016)
Gian Piero Ventura (2016–2017)
Luigi Di Biagio (2018–) (caretaker)

text: Players[edit]

text: Current squad[edit]

text:
The following players were called up for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification play-off matches against Sweden on 10 November 2017 and 13 November 2017.[121]
Caps and goals as of 13 November 2017, after the match against Sweden.

text:
0#0
Pos.
Player
Date of birth (age)
Caps
Goals
Club

1
1GK
Gianluigi Buffon RET (captain)
(1978-01-28) 28 January 1978 (age 40)
175
0
 Juventus

12
1GK
Gianluigi Donnarumma
(1999-02-25) 25 February 1999 (age 19)
4
0
 Milan

14
1GK
Mattia Perin
(1992-10-11) 11 October 1992 (age 25)
1
0
 Genoa

2
2DF
Daniele Rugani
(1994-07-26) 26 July 1994 (age 23)
4
0
 Juventus

3
2DF
Giorgio Chiellini RET
(1984-08-14) 14 August 1984 (age 33)
96
8
 Juventus

4
2DF
Matteo Darmian
(1989-12-02) 2 December 1989 (age 28)
36
1
 Manchester United

13
2DF
Davide Astori
(1987-01-07) 7 January 1987 (age 31)
14
1
 Fiorentina

15
2DF
Andrea Barzagli RET
(1981-05-08) 8 May 1981 (age 36)
73
0
 Juventus

19
2DF
Leonardo Bonucci
(1987-05-01) 1 May 1987 (age 30)
75
5
 Milan

21
2DF
Davide Zappacosta
(1992-06-11) 11 June 1992 (age 25)
7
0
 Chelsea

2DF
Leonardo Spinazzola
(1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 (age 24)
5
0
 Atalanta

2DF
Danilo D'Ambrosio
(1988-09-09) 9 September 1988 (age 29)
1
0
 Internazionale

5
3MF
Roberto Gagliardini
(1994-04-07) 7 April 1994 (age 23)
3
0
 Internazionale

6
3MF
Antonio Candreva
(1987-02-28) 28 February 1987 (age 31)
52
7
 Internazionale

7
3MF
Jorginho
(1991-12-20) 20 December 1991 (age 26)
3
0
 Napoli

8
3MF
Alessandro Florenzi
(1991-03-11) 11 March 1991 (age 26)
25
2
 Roma

10
3MF
Lorenzo Insigne
(1991-06-04) 4 June 1991 (age 26)
21
3
 Napoli

16
3MF
Daniele De Rossi RET
(1983-07-24) 24 July 1983 (age 34)
117
21
 Roma

18
3MF
Marco Parolo
(1985-01-25) 25 January 1985 (age 33)
34
0
 Lazio

20
3MF
Federico Bernardeschi
(1994-02-16) 16 February 1994 (age 24)
13
1
 Juventus

22
3MF
Stephan El Shaarawy
(1992-10-27) 27 October 1992 (age 25)
23
3
 Roma

3MF
Marco Verratti
(1992-11-05) 5 November 1992 (age 25)
24
1
 Paris Saint-Germain

9
4FW
Andrea Belotti
(1993-12-20) 20 December 1993 (age 24)
13
4
 Torino

11
4FW
Ciro Immobile
(1990-02-20) 20 February 1990 (age 28)
30
7
 Lazio

17
4FW
Éder
(1986-11-15) 15 November 1986 (age 31)
26
6
 Internazionale

23
4FW
Manolo Gabbiadini
(1991-11-26) 26 November 1991 (age 26)
11
2
 Southampton

4FW
Simone Zaza
(1991-06-25) 25 June 1991 (age 26)
16
1
 Valencia

text: Recent call-ups[edit]

text: The following players have also been called up to the Italy squad within the last 12 months. Players that have retired from the national team and are not available for selection anymore are not displayed.

text:
Pos.
Player
Date of birth (age)
Caps
Goals
Club
Latest call-up

GK
Simone Scuffet
(1996-05-31) 31 May 1996 (age 21)
0
0
 Udinese
v.  Liechtenstein, 11 June 2017

GK
Alex Meret
(1997-03-22) 22 March 1997 (age 20)
0
0
 SPAL
v.  Netherlands, 28 March 2017

DF
Andrea Conti
(1994-03-02) 2 March 1994 (age 23)
1
0
 Milan
v.  Israel, 5 September 2017

DF
Alessio Romagnoli
(1995-01-12) 12 January 1995 (age 23)
5
0
 Milan
v.  Uruguay, 7 June 2017 INJ

DF
Emerson Palmieri
(1994-08-03) 3 August 1994 (age 23)
0
0
 Chelsea
v.  Uruguay, 7 June 2017 INJ

DF
Mattia Caldara
(1994-05-05) 5 May 1994 (age 23)
0
0
 Atalanta
v.  Uruguay, 7 June 2017 PRE

DF
Alex Ferrari
(1994-07-01) 1 July 1994 (age 23)
0
0
 Verona
v.  Uruguay, 7 June 2017 PRE

DF
Mattia De Sciglio
(1992-10-20) 20 October 1992 (age 25)
31
0
 Juventus
v.  Netherlands, 28 March 2017

MF
Simone Verdi
(1992-07-12) 12 July 1992 (age 25)
2
0
 Bologna
v.  Albania, 9 October 2017

MF
Bryan Cristante
(1995-03-03) 3 March 1995 (age 22)
1
0
 Atalanta
v.  Albania, 9 October 2017

MF
Nicolò Barella
(1997-02-07) 7 February 1997 (age 21)
0
0
 Cagliari
v.  Albania, 9 October 2017

MF
Lorenzo Pellegrini
(1996-06-19) 19 June 1996 (age 21)
1
0
 Roma
v.  Macedonia, 6 October 2017 INJ

MF
Riccardo Montolivo
(1985-01-18) 18 January 1985 (age 33)
66
2
 Milan
v.  Israel, 5 September 2017

MF
Claudio Marchisio
(1986-01-19) 19 January 1986 (age 32)
55
5
 Juventus
v.  Uruguay, 7 June 2017 INJ

FW
Roberto Inglese
(1991-11-12) 12 November 1991 (age 26)
0
0
 Chievo
v.  Albania, 9 October 2017

FW
Nicola Sansone
(1991-09-10) 10 September 1991 (age 26)
3
0
 Villarreal
v.  Netherlands, 28 March 2017

FW
Andrea Petagna
(1995-06-30) 30 June 1995 (age 22)
1
0
 Atalanta
v.  Netherlands, 28 March 2017

text: Previous squads[edit]

text:
World Cup

1934 FIFA World Cup squad
1938 FIFA World Cup squad
1950 FIFA World Cup squad
1954 FIFA World Cup squad
1962 FIFA World Cup squad
1966 FIFA World Cup squad
1970 FIFA World Cup squad
1974 FIFA World Cup squad
1978 FIFA World Cup squad
1982 FIFA World Cup squad
1986 FIFA World Cup squad
1990 FIFA World Cup squad
1994 FIFA World Cup squad
1998 FIFA World Cup squad
2002 FIFA World Cup squad
2006 FIFA World Cup squad
2010 FIFA World Cup squad
2014 FIFA World Cup squad

European Championship

UEFA Euro 1968 squad
UEFA Euro 1980 squad
UEFA Euro 1988 squad
UEFA Euro 1996 squad
UEFA Euro 2000 squad
UEFA Euro 2004 squad
UEFA Euro 2008 squad
UEFA Euro 2012 squad
UEFA Euro 2016 squad

Confederations Cup

2009 FIFA Confederations Cup squad
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup squad

text: Recent results and forthcoming fixtures[edit]

text: Win   Draw   Loss

text:
24 March 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Italy
2–0
 Albania
[show]Palermo, Italy

20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)
De Rossi  12' (pen.)
Immobile  71'
Report

Stadium: Stadio Renzo Barbera
Attendance: 33,136
Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

text:
28 March 2017 Friendly
Netherlands
1–2
 Italy
[show]Amsterdam, Netherlands

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)
Romagnoli  10' (o.g.)
Report
Éder  11'
Bonucci  32'
Stadium: Amsterdam Arena
Attendance: 42,000
Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

text:
7 June 2017 Friendly
Italy
3–0
 Uruguay
[show]Nice, France

21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)
Giménez  7' (o.g.)
Éder  82'
De Rossi  90+3' (pen.)
Report

Stadium: Allianz Riviera
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

text:
11 June 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Italy
5–0
 Liechtenstein
[show]Udine, Italy

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)
Insigne  35'
Belotti  52'
Éder  75'
Bernardeschi  83'
Gabbiadini  90+1'
Report

Stadium: Stadio Friuli
Attendance: 20,514
Referee: Kevin Clancy (Scotland)

text:
2 September 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Spain
3–0
 Italy
[show]Madrid, Spain

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)
Isco  13', 40'
Morata  77'
Report

Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Attendance: 73,628
Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

text:
5 September 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Italy
1–0
 Israel
[show]Reggio Emilia, Italy

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)
Immobile  53'
Report

Stadium: Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore
Attendance: 15,507
Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

text:
6 October 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Italy
1–1
 Macedonia
[show]Turin, Italy

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)
Chiellini  40'
Report
Trajkovski  77'
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino
Attendance: 23,000
Referee: Tiago Martins (Portugal)

text:
9 October 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Albania
0–1
 Italy
[show]Shkodër, Albania

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Report
Candreva  73'
Stadium: Loro Boriçi Stadium
Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)

text:
10 November 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Sweden
1–0
 Italy
[show]Solna, Sweden

20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)
Johansson  61'
Report

Stadium: Friends Arena
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

text:
13 November 2017 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
Italy
0–0
(0–1 agg.)
 Sweden
[show]Milan, Italy

20:45 CET (UTC+01:00)

Report

Stadium: San Siro
Attendance: 72,696
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)

text:
23 March 2018 Friendly
Argentina
v
 Italy
[show]Manchester, England

Stadium: Ethiad Stadium

text:
27 March 2018 Friendly
England
v
 Italy
[show]London, England

21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Stadium: Wembley Stadium

text:
1 June 2018 Friendly
France
v
 Italy
[show]Nice, France

21:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Stadium: Allianz Riviera

text:
4 June 2018 Friendly
Italy
v
 Netherlands
[show]Turin, Italy

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Stadium: Allianz Stadium

text:
7 September 2018 2018–19 UEFA Nations League
Italy
v
 Poland
[show]TDB, Italy

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Stadium: TDB

text:
10 September 2018 2018–19 UEFA Nations League
Portugal
v
 Italy
[show]TDB, Portugal

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Stadium: TDB

text:
14 October 2018 2018–19 UEFA Nations League
Poland
v
 Italy
[show]TDB, Poland

20:45 CEST (UTC+02:00)

Stadium: TDB

text:
17 November 2018 2018–19 UEFA Nations League
Italy
v
 Portugal
[show]TDB, Italy

20:45 WET (UTC±00:00)

Stadium: TDB

text: Records[edit]

text: Most capped players[edit]

text: As of 13 November 2017, the players with the most appearances for Italy are:[122]

text:
#
Player
Period
Caps
Goals

1
Gianluigi Buffon
1997–2017
175
0

2
Fabio Cannavaro
1997–2010
136
2

3
Paolo Maldini
1988–2002
126
7

4
Daniele De Rossi
2004–2017
117
21

5
Andrea Pirlo
2002–2015
116
13

6
Dino Zoff
1968–1983
112
0

7
Gianluca Zambrotta
1999–2010
98
2

8
Giorgio Chiellini
2004–2017
96
8

9
Giacinto Facchetti
1963–1977
94
3

10
Alessandro Del Piero
1995–2008
91
27

text: Players in bold are still active in the national football team.

text: Top goalscorers[edit]

text: As of 13 November 2017, the players with the most goals for Italy are:[123]

text:
#
Player
Period
Goals
Caps
Average

1
Luigi Riva (list)
1965–1974
35
42
0.83

2
Giuseppe Meazza
1930–1939
33
53
0.62

3
Silvio Piola
1935–1952
30
34
0.88

4
Roberto Baggio
1988–2004
27
56
0.48

Alessandro Del Piero
1995–2008
27
91
0.30

6
Adolfo Baloncieri
1920–1930
25
47
0.53

Filippo Inzaghi
1997–2007
25
57
0.44

Alessandro Altobelli
1980–1988
25
61
0.41

9
Christian Vieri
1997–2005
23
49
0.47

Francesco Graziani
1975–1983
23
64
0.36

text: Captains[edit]

text: List of captaincy periods of the various captains throughout the years.[124]

text:
1910 Francesco Calì
1911–1914 Giuseppe Milano
1914–1915 Virgilio Fossati
1920–1925 Renzo De Vecchi
1925–1927 Luigi Cevenini
1927–1930 Adolfo Baloncieri
1931–1934 Umberto Caligaris
1934 Gianpiero Combi
1935–1936 Luigi Allemandi
1937–1939 Giuseppe Meazza
1940–1947 Silvio Piola
1947–1949 Valentino Mazzola
1949–1950 Riccardo Carapellese
1951–1952 Carlo Annovazzi
1952–1960 Giampiero Boniperti
1961–1962 Lorenzo Buffon
1962–1963 Cesare Maldini
1963–1966 Sandro Salvadore
1966–1977 Giacinto Facchetti
1977–1983 Dino Zoff
1983–1985 Marco Tardelli
1985–1986 Gaetano Scirea
1986–1987 Antonio Cabrini
1988–1991 Giuseppe Bergomi
1991–1994 Franco Baresi
1994–2002 Paolo Maldini
2002–2010 Fabio Cannavaro[nb 2]
2010–2017 Gianluigi Buffon[nb 3]

text: Hat-tricks[edit]

text: Head to head records[edit]

text: For head to head records against other countries, see Italy national football team head to head.

text: Kit history[edit]

text: For Italy's kit history, see Italy national football team kit history.

text: Competitive record[edit]

text: For the all-time record, see Italy national football team all-time record.

text: Champions       Runners-up       Third Place       Fourth Place

text: FIFA World Cup[edit]

text:
FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup Qualification record

Year
Round
Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA

 1930
Did Not Enter
–
–
–
–
–
–

 1934
Champions
1st
5
4
1
0
12
3
1
1
0
0
4
0

 1938
Champions
1st
4
4
0
0
11
5
Qualified as defending champions

 1950
Group Stage
7th
2
1
0
1
4
3
Qualified as defending champions

 1954
10th
3
1
0
2
6
7
2
2
0
0
7
2

 1958
Did Not Qualify
4
2
0
2
5
5

 1962
Group Stage
9th
3
1
1
1
3
2
2
2
0
0
10
2

 1966
9th
3
1
0
2
2
2
6
4
1
1
17
3

 1970
Runners-up
2nd
6
3
2
1
10
8
4
3
1
0
10
3

 1974
Group Stage
10th
3
1
1
1
5
4
6
4
2
0
12
0

 1978
Fourth Place
4th
7
4
1
2
9
6
6
5
0
1
18
4

 1982
Champions
1st
7
4
3
0
12
6
8
5
2
1
12
5

 1986
Round of 16
12th
4
1
2
1
5
6
Qualified as defending champions

 1990
Third Place
3rd
7
6
1
0
10
2
Qualified as hosts

 1994
Runners-up
2nd
7
4
2
1
8
5
10
7
2
1
22
7

 1998
Quarter Final
5th
5
3
2
0
8
3
10
6
4
0
13
2

  2002
Round of 16
15th
4
1
1
2
5
5
8
6
2
0
16
3

 2006
Champions
1st
7
5
2
0
12
2
10
7
2
1
17
8

 2010
Group Stage
26th
3
0
2
1
4
5
10
7
3
0
18
7

 2014
22nd
3
1
0
2
2
3
10
6
4
0
19
9

 2018
Did Not Qualify
12
7
3
2
21
9

 2022
TBD

Total
4 Titles
18/21
83
45
21
17
128
77
109
74
26
9
221
69

text:
[show]Italy's World Cup record

First Match

Italy  7–1  United States
(27 May 1934; Rome, Italy)

Biggest Win

Italy  7–1  United States
(27 May 1934; Rome, Italy)

Biggest Defeat

Switzerland   4–1  Italy
(23 June 1954; Basel, Switzerland)

Brazil  4–1  Italy
(21 June 1970; Mexico City, Mexico)

Best Result

Champions at the 1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006 World Cups

Worst Result

Group Stage at the 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1974, 2010 and 2014 World Cups

text: UEFA European Championship[edit]

text:
UEFA European Championship record

UEFA European Championship Qualification record

Year
Round
Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA

 1960
Did Not Enter

 1964
Did Not Qualify
4
2
1
1
8
3

 1968
Champions
1st
3
1
2
0
3
1
8
6
1
1
21
6

 1972
Did Not Qualify
6
4
3
1
13
6

 1976
6
2
3
1
3
3

 1980
Fourth Place
4th
4
1
3
0
2
1
Qualified as hosts

 1984
Did Not Qualify
8
1
3
4
6
12

 1988
Semi Final
3rd
4
2
1
1
4
3
8
6
1
1
16
4

 1992
Did Not Qualify
8
3
4
1
12
5

 1996
Group Stage
10th
3
1
1
1
3
3
10
7
2
1
20
6

  2000
Runners-up
2nd
6
4
1
1
9
4
8
4
3
1
13
5

 2004
Group Stage
9th
3
1
2
0
3
2
8
5
2
1
17
4

  2008
Quarter Final
8th
4
1
2
1
3
4
12
9
2
1
22
9

  2012
Runners-up
2nd
6
2
3
1
6
7
10
8
2
0
20
2

 2016
Quarter Final
5th
5
3
1
1
6
2
10
7
3
0
16
7

 2020
TBD

Total
1 Title
9/15
38
16
16
6
39
27
106
64
30
14
187
72

text:
[show]Italy's European Championship record

First Match

Italy  0–0  Soviet Union
(5 June 1968; Napoli, Italy)

Biggest Win

8 games at 2–0

Biggest Defeat

Spain  4–0  Italy
(1 July 2012; Kiev, Ukraine)

Best Result

Champions at the UEFA Euro 1968

Worst Result

Group Stage at the UEFA Euro 1996 and UEFA Euro 2004

text: FIFA Confederations Cup[edit]

text:
FIFA Confederations Cup record

Year
Round
Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA
Squad

 1992
No European team participated

 1995
Did Not Qualify

 1997

 1999

  2001

 2003
Did Not Enter[134]

 2005
Did Not Qualify

 2009
Group Stage
5th
3
1
0
2
3
5
Squad

 2013
Third Place
3rd
5
2
2
1
10
10
Squad

 2017
Did Not Qualify

Total
Third Place
2/10
8
3
2
3
13
15
-

text:
[show]Italy's Confederations Cup record

First Match

Italy  3–1  United States
(15 June 2009; Pretoria, South Africa)

Biggest Win

Italy  3–1  United States
(15 June 2009; Pretoria, South Africa)

Biggest Defeat

Brazil  3–0  Italy
(21 June 2009; Pretoria, South Africa)

Best Result

Third Place at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup

Worst Result

Group Stage at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup

text: UEFA Nations League[edit]

text:
UEFA Nations League record

Year
Round
Position
Pld
W
D*
L
GF
GA

2018–19 (A)

text: Honours[edit]

text: FIFA World Cup

text:
Winner (4): 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006
Runner-up (2): 1970, 1994
Third place (1): 1990
Fourth place (1): 1978

text: UEFA European Championship

text:
Winner (1): 1968
Runner-up (2): 2000, 2012
Fourth place (1): 1980
Semi-finals (1): 1988

text: FIFA Confederations Cup

text: Third place (1): 2013

text: Olympic football tournament

text:
Gold Medal (1): 1936
Bronze Medal (2): 1928, 2004

text: Unofficial trophies:

text: Central European International Cup

text:
Winner (2): 1927–30, 1933–35
Runner-up (2): 1931–32, 1936–38[nb 1]

text: Trophies[edit]

text:
Competition
01 !
02 !
03 !
Total

World Cup
4
2
1
7

Olympic Games
1
0
2
3

European Championship
1
2
1
4

Confederations Cup
0
0
1
1

Central European International Cup
2
2
0
4

Total
8
6
5
19


document_title: Sam Hill (euphemism)

question_text: where does the phrase sam hill come from

root

text: Sam Hill (euphemism)

text: Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?"). Etymologist Michael Quinion and others date the expression back to the late 1830s;[1][2] they and others[3] consider the expression to have been a simple bowdlerization, with, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, an unknown origin.

tag: p

text: Possible referents[edit]

text: Candidate referents for the use date back to at least the 19th century. The following are possibilities of the term's origin.

text: H. L. Mencken suggested that the phrase derives from Samiel, the name of the Devil in Der Freischütz, an opera by Carl Maria von Weber that was performed in New York City in 1825. The phrase "Sam Hill" can also be seen in the variant "Samil."[4]

text: Sam Hill was a mercantile store owner who offered a vast and diverse inventory of goods. People began using the term "what in the Sam Hill is that?" to describe something they found odd or unusual, just like the inventory found in Sam Hill's store. The original Sam Hill Mercantile building still stands on Montezuma Street in Prescott, Arizona, and is listed on the register of Historic Places.[5]

text: An article in the New England Magazine in December 1889 entitled "Two Centuries and a Half in Guilford, Connecticut" mentioned that, "Between 1727 and 1752 Mr. Sam. Hill represented Guilford in forty-three out of forty-nine sessions of the Legislature, and when he was gathered to his fathers, his son Nathaniel reigned in his stead" and a footnote queried whether this might be the source of the "popular Connecticut adjuration to 'Give 'em Sam Hill'?"[1]

text: The millionaire Samuel Hill, a businessman and "good roads" advocate in the Pacific Northwest, became associated with the phrase in the 1920s. A reference appeared in Time magazine when Hill convinced Queen Marie of Romania to travel to rural Washington to dedicate Hill's Maryhill Museum of Art.[6] The fact that "Father of Good Roads" Samuel Hill hadn't been born when the figure of speech first appeared in a publication rules out the possibility that he was the original Sam Hill in question.[2][7]

text: A possible origin for the phrase "Sam Hill" is the surveyor Samuel W. Hill (1819–1889).[8] Hill allegedly used such foul language that his name became a euphemism for swear words. In the words of Charles Eschbach, "Back in the 1850s the Keweenaw's copper mining boom was underway. There were about a dozen men who pretty much ran the Keweenaw. They were mining company agents, the 'go between' for the investors from Boston and the actual mining production people. Their names were attached to every report sent back to eastern investors. Among these company agents was a man named Samuel W. Hill. Sam was a geologist, surveyor, and mining engineer and had considerable power in the Keweenaw."[9]

text: According to author Ellis W. Courter, Samuel Hill "was an adventurer, explorer, miner, and surveyor. He had worked with Christopher C. Douglas and Douglas Houghton on the early State survey. His judgment was respected. Although he was a rough character, he possessed a big heart and in the fall of 1847 had risked his life to help avert a threatened food shortage in the Copper Harbor district. Generally he was regarded as a hero throughout the entire Copper Country, however, he was contemptuous of all the praise that was heaped upon him. Hill also gained a reputation as being one of the most blasphemous and obscene swearers in the Keweenaw Peninsula. Although he had a colorful vocabulary and told many a good story of his early adventures, his ubiquitous use of lurid cuss words became legendary. Whenever friends or neighbors retold his colorful tales in more polite society, they had to tame his unmentionables by substituting the sinless sounding words 'Sam Hill'. In time the expression, 'What the Sam Hill' spread far beyond the Copper Country. Today it has become a part of the American language. Few who utter these words ever heard of Samuel Hill, or know that he was the unconscious originator of a sinless synonym for profanity."[10]

text: Another possibility involves the former adjutant general of Kentucky Samuel Ewing Hill, who was sent by the governor of Kentucky to see what was going on in reference to the Hatfields & McCoys family feud in 1887. Between 1880 and 1891, the feud claimed more than a dozen members of the two families, becoming headline news around the country, and compelling the governors of both Kentucky and West Virginia to call up their state militias to restore order. The governor of West Virginia once even threatened to have his militia invade Kentucky. Kentucky governor Simon Bolivar Buckner in response sent his adjutant general Sam Hill to Pike County, Kentucky to investigate the situation. Newspapers from around the country awaited word from Hill to find out "what in the Sam Hill was going on up there".[11][12]


document_title: The House of the Rising Sun

question_text: who did house of the rising sun first

question_tokens: who did house of the rising sun first

text: The House of the Rising Sun

text: Origin and early versions[edit]

text: Origin[edit]

text: Like many classic folk ballads, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad The Unfortunate Rake.[4] According to Alan Lomax, "Rising Sun" was used as the name of a bawdy house in two traditional English songs, and it was also a name for English pubs.[5] He further suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song, "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrave", also known as "Matty Groves",[6][7] but a survey by Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs.[8] Lomax proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to New Orleans by white southern performers.[5] However, Vance Randolph proposed an alternative French origin, the "rising sun" referring to the decorative use of the sunburst insignia dating to the time of Louis XIV, which was brought to North America by French immigrants.[8]

text: "House of Rising Sun" was said to have been known by miners in 1905.[6] The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925, in a column "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure Magazine.[9] The lyrics of that version begin:[9][10]

text: There is a house in New Orleans, it's called the Rising Sun

text: It's been the ruin of many a poor girl

text: The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it for Vocalion Records on September 6, 1933.[6][11] Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Roy Acuff, an "early-day friend and apprentice" of Ashley's, learned it from him and recorded it as "Rising Sun" on November 3, 1938.[6][11] Several older blues recordings of songs with similar titles are unrelated, for example, "Rising Sun Blues" by Ivy Smith (1927) and "The Risin' Sun" by Texas Alexander (1928).[5]

text: The song was among those collected by folklorist Alan Lomax, who, along with his father, was a curator of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky, Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in the house of singer and activist Tilman Cadle. In 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16-year-old daughter of a local miner. He called it The Rising Sun Blues.[11] Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers. In his 1941 songbook Our Singing Country, Lomax credits the lyrics to Turner,[11] with reference to Martin's version.

text: Early folk and blues releases[edit]

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text: In 1941, Woody Guthrie recorded a version. A recording made in 1947 by Libby Holman and Josh White (who is also credited with having written new words and music that have subsequently been popularized in the versions made by many other later artists) was released by Mercury Records in 1950. White learned the song from a "white hillbilly singer", who might have been Ashley, in North Carolina in 1923–1924.[6] Lead Belly recorded two versions of the song, in February 1944 and in October 1948, called "In New Orleans" and "The House of the Rising Sun", respectively; the latter was recorded in sessions that were later used on the album Lead Belly's Last Sessions (1994, Smithsonian Folkways).

text: In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough recorded the song for Elektra Records. The song is also credited to Ronnie Gilbert on an album by The Weavers released in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Pete Seeger released a version on Folkways Records in 1958, which was re-released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2009.[11] Andy Griffith recorded the song on his 1959 album Andy Griffith Shouts the Blues and Old Timey Songs. In 1960 Miriam Makeba recorded the song on her eponymous RCA album.

text: Joan Baez recorded it in 1960 on her self-titled debut album; she frequently performed the song in concert throughout her career. Nina Simone recorded her first version for the album Nina at the Village Gate in 1962. Tim Hardin sang it on This is Tim Hardin, recorded in 1964 but not released until 1967.[12] The Chambers Brothers recorded a version on Feelin' the Blues, released on Vault records (1970).

text: Van Ronk arrangement[edit]

text: In late 1961, Bob Dylan recorded the song for his debut album, released in March 1962. That release had no songwriting credit, but the liner notes indicate that Dylan learned this version of the song from Dave Van Ronk. In an interview for the documentary No Direction Home, Van Ronk said that he was intending to record the song and that Dylan copied his version. Van Ronk recorded it soon thereafter for the album Just Dave Van Ronk.

text: I had learned it sometime in the 1950s, from a recording by Hally Wood, the Texas singer and collector, who had got it from an Alan Lomax field recording by a Kentucky woman named Georgia Turner. I put a different spin on it by altering the chords and using a bass line that descended in half steps—a common enough progression in jazz, but unusual among folksingers. By the early 1960s, the song had become one of my signature pieces, and I could hardly get off the stage without doing it.[13]

text: The Animals' version[edit]

text:
"The House of the Rising Sun"

Artwork for US release

Single by The Animals

from the album The Animals

B-side
"Talkin' 'bout You"

Released

June 19, 1964 (1964-06-19) (UK)
August 1964 (USA)

Format
7-inch single

Recorded
May 18, 1964

Genre
Folk rock

Length
2:59, 4:29

Label
Columbia Graphophone

Songwriter(s)
Traditional, arranged by Alan Price

Producer(s)
Mickie Most

The Animals singles chronology

"Baby Let Me Take You Home"
(1964)
"The House of the Rising Sun"
(1964)
"I'm Crying"
(1964)

"Baby Let Me Take You Home"
(1964)
"House of the Rising Sun"
(1964)
"I'm Crying"
(1964)

text: An interview with Eric Burdon revealed that he first heard the song in a club in Newcastle, England, where it was sung by the Northumbrian folk singer Johnny Handle. The Animals were on tour with Chuck Berry and chose it because they wanted something distinctive to sing.[14]

text: The Animals' version transposes the narrative of the song from the point of view of a woman led into a life of degradation to that of a man whose father was now a gambler and drunkard, rather than the sweetheart in earlier versions.

text: The Animals had begun featuring their arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun" during a joint concert tour with Chuck Berry, using it as their closing number to differentiate themselves from acts that always closed with straight rockers.[15] It got a tremendous reaction from the audience, convincing initially reluctant producer Mickie Most that it had hit potential,[15] and between tour stops the group went to a small recording studio on Kingsway in London[15] to capture it.

text: Recording and releases[edit]

text: The song was recorded in just one take on May 18, 1964,[16] and it starts with a now-famous electric guitar A minor chord arpeggio by Hilton Valentine.[1][3] According to Valentine, he simply took Dylan's chord sequence and played it as an arpeggio.[17] The performance takes off with Burdon's lead vocal, which has been variously described as "howling,"[2] "soulful,"[18] and as "...deep and gravelly as the north-east English coal town of Newcastle that spawned him."[1] Finally, Alan Price's pulsating organ part (played on a Vox Continental) completes the sound. Burdon later said, "We were looking for a song that would grab people's attention."[19]

text: As recorded, "House of the Rising Sun" ran four and a half minutes, regarded as far too long for a pop single at the time.[16] Producer Most, who initially did not really want to record the song at all,[17] said that on this occasion: "Everything was in the right place ... It only took 15 minutes to make so I can't take much credit for the production"[20]. He was nonetheless now a believer and declared it a single at its full length, saying "We're in a microgroove world now, we will release it."[20]

text: In the United States however, the original single (MGM 13264) was a 2:58 version. The MGM Golden Circle reissue (KGC 179) featured the unedited 4:29 version, although the record label gives the edited playing time of 2:58. The edited version was included on the group's 1964 U.S. debut album The Animals, while the full version was later included on their best-selling 1966 U.S. greatest hits album, The Best of the Animals. However, the very first American release of the full-length version was on a 1965 album of various groups entitled Mickie Most Presents British Go-Go (MGM SE-4306), the cover of which, under the listing of "House of the Rising Sun", described it as the "Original uncut version." Americans could also hear the complete version in the movie Go Go Mania in the spring of 1965.

text: "House of the Rising Sun" was not included on any of the group's British albums, but it was reissued as a single twice in subsequent decades, charting both times, reaching number 25 in 1972 and number 11 in 1982, using the famous Wittlesbach organ.

text: The Animals version was played in 6/8 meter, unlike the 4/4 of most earlier versions. Arranging credit went only to Alan Price. According to Burdon, this was simply because there was insufficient room to name all five band members on the record label, and Alan Price's first name was first alphabetically. However, this meant that only Price received songwriter's royalties for the hit, a fact that has caused bitterness ever since, especially with Valentine.[3][21]

text: Reception[edit]

text: "House of the Rising Sun" was a trans-Atlantic hit: after reaching the top of the UK pop singles chart in July 1964, it topped the U.S. pop singles chart two months later, on September 5, 1964, where it stayed for three weeks,[22] and became the first British Invasion number one unconnected with the Beatles.[23] It was the group's breakthrough hit in both countries and became their signature song.[24] The song was also a hit in a number of other countries, including Ireland, where it reached No. 10 and dropped off the charts one week later.

text: Bob Dylan said he first heard The Animals' version on his car radio and "jumped out of his car seat" because he liked it so much; but he stopped playing the song after the Animals' recording became a hit because fans accused him of plagiarism.[citation needed] Dave Van Ronk said that The Animals' version—like Dylan's version before it—was based on his arrangement of the song.[25]

text: Dave Marsh described the Animals' take on "The House of the Rising Sun" as "...the first folk-rock hit," sounding "...as if they'd connected the ancient tune to a live wire."[2] Writer Ralph McLean of the BBC agreed that "It was arguably the first folk rock tune," calling it "a revolutionary single", after which "the face of modern music was changed forever."[3]

text: The Animals' rendition of the song is recognized as one of the classics of British pop music. Writer Lester Bangs labeled it "a brilliant rearrangement" and "a new standard rendition of an old standard composition."[26] It ranked number 122 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It is also one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". The RIAA ranked it number 240 on their list of "Songs of the Century". In 1999 it received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It has long since become a staple of oldies and classic rock radio formats. A 2005 Channel Five poll ranked it as Britain's fourth-favourite number one song.[16]

text: Charts[edit]

text:
Chart (1964)
Peak
position

Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[27]
5

Canada Top Singles (RPM)[28]
1

Germany (Official German Charts)[29]
9

Ireland (IRMA)[30]
10

Netherlands (Single Top 100)[31]
5

New Zealand (Listener)[32]
2

UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[33]
1

US Billboard Hot 100[34]
1

Chart (1972)
Peak
position

Ireland (IRMA)[30]
5

UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[33]
25

Chart (1982)
Peak
position

UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[33]
11

text:
Preceded by
"Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
September 5, 1964 – September 19, 1964
Succeeded by
"Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison

Preceded by
"It's Over" by Roy Orbison
UK Singles Chart number-one single
July 9, 1964 – July 15, 1964
Succeeded by
"It's All Over Now" by The Rolling Stones

text: Frijid Pink version[edit]

text:
"House of the Rising Sun"

Artwork for Danish, French and German releases (French pressing pictured)

Single by Frijid Pink

from the album Frijid Pink

B-side
"Drivin' Blues"

Released
March 1970 (1970-03)

Format
7-inch single

Genre
Psychedelic rock

Length
4:44 (album)
3:23 (single)

Label
Parrot Records

Songwriter(s)
Traditional, arranged by Alan Price

Producer(s)
Michael Valvano

Frijid Pink singles chronology

"House of the Rising Sun"
(1970)
"Sing a Song for Freedom"
(1970)

"House of the Rising Sun"
(1970)
"Sing a Song for Freedom"
(1970)

text: In 1969, the Detroit band Frijid Pink recorded a psychedelic version of "House of the Rising Sun", which became an international hit in 1970. Their version is in 4/4 time (like Van Ronk's and most earlier versions, rather than the 6/8 used by the Animals) and was driven by Gary Ray Thompson's distorted guitar with fuzz and wah-wah effects, set against the frenetic drumming of Richard Stevers.[35]

text: According to Stevers, the Frijid Pink recording of "House of the Rising Sun" was done impromptu when there was time left over at a recording session booked for the group at the Tera Shirma Recording Studios. Stevers later played snippets from that session's tracks for Paul Cannon, the music director of Detroit's premier rock radio station, WKNR; the two knew each other, as Cannon was the father of Stevers's girlfriend. Stevers recalled, "we went through the whole thing and [and Cannon] didn't say much. Then 'House [of the Rising Sun]' started up and I immediately turned it off because it wasn't anything I really wanted him to hear." However, Cannon was intrigued and had Stevers play the complete track for him, then advising Stevers, "Tell Parrot [Frijid Pink's label] to drop God Gave Me You [the group's current single] and go with this one."[36]

text: Frijid Pink's "House of the Rising Sun" debuted at #29 on the WKNR hit parade dated January 6, 1970 and broke nationally after some seven weeks—during which the track was re-serviced to radio three times—with a number 73 debut on the Hot 100 in Billboard dated February 27, 1970 (number 97 Canada 1970/01/31) with a subsequent three-week ascent to the Top 30 en route to a Hot 100 peak of number 7 on April 4, 1970. The certification of the Frijid Pink single "House of the Rising Sun" as a gold record for domestic sales of one million units was reported in the issue of Billboard dated May 30, 1970.

text: The Frijid Pink single of "House of the Rising Sun" would give the song its most widespread international success, with Top Ten status reached in Austria (number 3), Belgium (Flemish region, number 6), Canada (number 3), Denmark (number 3), Germany (two weeks at number 1), Greece, Ireland (number 7), Israel (number 4), the Netherlands (number 3), Norway (seven weeks at number 1), Poland (number 2), Sweden (number 6), Switzerland (number 2), and the UK (number 4). The single also charted in Australia (number 14), France (number 36), and Italy (number 54).

text: Sales and certifications[edit]

text:
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales

United States (RIAA)[37]
Gold
1,000,000^

text: Billboard Country Chart[edit]

text: The song has twice been a hit record on Billboard's country chart.

text: Jody Miller version[edit]

text: In 1973, Jody Miller's version reached number 29 on the country charts and number 41 on the adult contemporary chart.

text: Dolly Parton version[edit]

text:
"The House of the Rising Sun"

Artwork for German release

Single by Dolly Parton

from the album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs

B-side
"Workin' Girl"

Released
September 1981 (1981-09)

Format
7-inch single

Recorded
November 1980

Genre
Country pop

Length
4:02

Label
RCA

Songwriter(s)
Traditional

Producer(s)
Mike Post

Dolly Parton singles chronology

"But You Know I Love You"
(1981)
"The House of the Rising Sun"
(1981)
"Single Women"
(1982)

"But You Know I Love You"
(1981)
"House of the Rising Sun"
(1981)
"Single Women"
(1982)

text: In September 1981, Dolly Parton released a cover of the song as the third single from her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs. Like Miller's earlier country hit, Parton's remake returns the song to its original lyric of being about a fallen woman. The Parton version makes it quite blunt, with a few new lyric lines that were written by Parton. Parton's remake reached number 14 on the U.S. country singles chart and crossed over to the pop charts, where it reached number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100; it also reached number 30 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart. Parton has occasionally performed the song live, including on her 1987–88 television show, in an episode taped in New Orleans.

text: Five Finger Death Punch version[edit]

text:
"House of the Rising Sun"

Single by Five Finger Death Punch

from the album The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2

Released
February 3, 2014 (2014-02-03)

Recorded
November 2013

Genre
Hard rock

Length
4:07

Label
Prospect Park

Songwriter(s)
Traditional

Five Finger Death Punch singles chronology

"Battle Born"
(2013)
"House of the Rising Sun"
(2014)
"Mama Said Knock You Out"
(2014)

"Battle Born"
(2013)
"House of the Rising Sun"
(2014)
"Mama Said Knock You Out"
(2014)

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text: The American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch released a cover of "House of the Rising Sun" on their fifth studio album, The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 2, which was later released as the album's second single and the band's third single of the Wrong Side era. The references to New Orleans have been changed to Sin City, a reference to the negative effects of gambling in Las Vegas. The song was a top ten hit on mainstream rock radio in the United States. It also in the video game Guitar Hero Live.

text: Johnny Hallyday version (in French)[edit]

text:
"Le Pénitencier"

Single by Johnny Hallyday

from the album 'Le Pénitencier'

Released
October 1964 (1964-10) (France)

Format
7-inch single, 25-cm LP

Recorded
September 1964

Label
Philips

Songwriter(s)
Hugues Aufray / Vline Buggy, Alan Price

Producer(s)
Lee Hallyday

Johnny Hallyday singles chronology

"Les Mauvais garçons"
(1964)
"Le Pénitencier"
(1964)
"Un ami ça n'a pas de prix"
(1965)

"Les Mauvais garçons"
(1964)
"Le Pénitencier"
(1964)
"Un ami ça n'a pas de prix"
(1965)

Music video

"Le Pénitencier" (Live on French TV, 1966)
"Le Pénitencier" (Live at the Théâtre de Paris, 2013)
on YouTube

text: The song was covered in French by Johnny Hallyday. His version (titled "Le Pénitencier") was released in October 1964 and spent one week at no. 1 on the singles sales chart in France (from October 17 to 23).[38] In Wallonia (French Belgium) his single spent 28 weeks on the chart, also peaking at number 1.[39]

text: He performed the song during his 2014 USA tour.[40]

text: Charts[edit]

text:
Chart (1964)
Peak
position

Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[41]
1

France (singles sales)[38]
1

text: Possible real locations[edit]

text: Various places in New Orleans have been proposed as the inspiration for the song, with varying plausibility. The phrase "House of the Rising Sun" is often understood as a euphemism for a brothel, but it is not known whether or not the house described in the lyrics was an actual or a fictitious place. One theory is that the song is about a woman who killed her father, an alcoholic gambler who had beaten his wife. Therefore, the House of the Rising Sun may be a jailhouse, from which one would be the first person to see the sun rise (an idea supported by the lyric mentioning "a ball and chain," though that phrase has been slang for marital relationships for at least as long as the song has been in print). Because women often sang the song, another theory is that the House of the Rising Sun was where prostitutes were detained while treated for syphilis. Since cures with mercury were ineffective, going back was very unlikely.[7][14]

text: Only three candidates that use the name Rising Sun have historical evidence—from old city directories and newspapers. The first was a small, short-lived hotel on Conti Street in the French Quarter in the 1820s. It burned down in 1822. An excavation and document search in early 2005 found evidence that supported this claim, including an advertisement with language that may have euphemistically indicated prostitution. Archaeologists found an unusually large number of pots of rouge and cosmetics at the site.[42][43]

text: The second possibility was a "Rising Sun Hall" listed in late 19th-century city directories on what is now Cherokee Street, at the riverfront in the uptown Carrollton neighborhood, which seems to have been a building owned and used for meetings of a Social Aid and Pleasure Club, commonly rented out for dances and functions. It also is no longer extant. Definite links to gambling or prostitution (if any) are undocumented for either of these buildings.

text: A third was "The Rising Sun", which advertised in several local newspapers in the 1860s, located on what is now the lake side of the 100 block of Decatur Street.[44] In various advertisements it is described as a "Restaurant," a "Lager Beer Salon," and a "Coffee House." At the time, New Orleans businesses listed as coffee houses often also sold alcoholic beverages.

text: Dave Van Ronk claimed in his biography "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" that at one time when he was in New Orleans someone approached him with a number of old photos of the city from the turn of the century. Among them "was a picture of a forbidding stone doorway with a carving on the lintel of a stylized rising sun... It was the Orleans Parish women's prison."[45]

text: Bizarre New Orleans, a guidebook on New Orleans, asserts that the real house was at 1614 Esplanade Avenue between 1862 and 1874 and was said to have been named after its madam, Marianne LeSoleil Levant, whose surname means "the rising sun" in French.[14]

text: Another guidebook, Offbeat New Orleans, asserts that the real House of the Rising Sun was at 826–830 St. Louis St. between 1862 and 1874, also purportedly named for Marianne LeSoleil Levant. The building still stands, and Eric Burdon, after visiting at the behest of the owner, said, "The house was talking to me." [46]

text: There is a contemporary B&B called the House of the Rising Sun, decorated in brothel style. The owners are fans of the song, but there is no connection with the original place.[46][47]

text: Not everyone believes that the house actually existed. Pamela D. Arceneaux, a research librarian at the Williams Research Center in New Orleans, is quoted as saying:

text: I have made a study of the history of prostitution in New Orleans and have often confronted the perennial question, "Where is the House of the Rising Sun?" without finding a satisfactory answer. Although it is generally assumed that the singer is referring to a brothel, there is actually nothing in the lyrics that indicate that the "house" is a brothel. Many knowledgeable persons have conjectured that a better case can be made for either a gambling hall or a prison; however, to paraphrase Freud: sometimes lyrics are just lyrics.[7]


document_title: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

question_text: 12 days of giveaways ellen what is it

question_tokens: 12 days of giveaways ellen what is it

text: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

text: Concept[edit]

text: The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories. The program often features audience participation games where prizes are awarded. During her Twelve Days of Giveaways promotion, audience members receive roughly $1,000 worth of prizes on each of twelve episodes. Because the show has become so popular, not all who arrive hoping to see a taping can fit into the studio, so an offshoot space, dubbed by Tom Hanks "The Riff Raff Room", was created. Persons seated here are often referenced and shown briefly on camera but watch the taping from off-stage. Other non-celebrities have been featured in an attempt by DeGeneres to give them 15 minutes of fame. Guests in this role have included intelligent children, small business owners, etc. In the show's third season, DeGeneres began surprising fans by introducing them to their favorite celebrities.

text: Recurring elements[edit]

text: Several recurring sounds, gags, and catchphrases are used by DeGeneres depending on the topic of discussion or theme for a specific episode. For example, after DeGeneres says the phrase, "Aww Snap!", a sound effect of a whip cracking often is played. In her monologue, DeGeneres frequently thanks the audience's applause by saying "I feel the same way about you!" Other video segments include DeGeneres scaring people, playing pranks, taking part in faux-breaking news segments, interacting with crew members, etc. Other recurring segments include those where DeGeneres comments on Internet videos, tabloid-style photographs of celebrities, advertisements on Craigslist, or voicemails left for her on an answering machine. Some segments feature audience members more prominently, including having audience members show hidden talents, pictures of others that resemble DeGeneres, interviewing children, etc.

text: DeGeneres frequently plays games with audience members and awards prizes based upon their performance. Games have included Pictionary-style drawing games, finding hidden objects within the studio, category, current event or pop-culture-based trivia, and various other stunt and charade-based games. DeGeneres also joked several times on the show about when a sequel to Finding Nemo, in which she famously had a lead role, will eventually release, as well as make references to the film. Eventually, the sequel, Finding Dory, was officially announced by DeGeneres.

text: Segments (including former and recurring)[edit]

text: The show has many recurring segments throughout the years. Some include:

text:
Oh Hair No! is a segment that involves fans sending in funny haircuts to DeGeneres; some of them appear on the show.
Know or Go is a segment involving three audience members (or contestants) to answer questions based on topics such as Thanksgiving, current events, about Ellen herself, etc. If they get a question wrong, the contestant gets dropped through trap door.
Clumsy Thumbsy is a segment where Ellen shows messed up auto corrects sent in by fans.
Oh Puh-lice is a segment where odd police reports are shown.
Ellen's Dance Dare is a segment where viewers send videos of themselves secretly dancing behind oblivious people. Irish jigs were featured on the 2012 St. Patrick's Day episode. Many celebrities have participated such as Emma Stone, Zac Efron, Lilly Singh, The Janoskians and Taylor Swift.
Bad Paid for Tattoos Odd, usually incorrectly spelled body art is displayed.
A Little Yelp From My Friends Ellen reads reviews from the website Yelp.
"What's Wrong with These Photos?" Photos Silly photos sent in by viewers are featured.
"What Were They Thinking?" Audience Dancing Audience members are shown dancing with voices acting out the dancers' thoughts.
"What's Wrong with These Signs?" Signs Viewers send Ellen pictures of signs that aren't quite right.
Tony Karaoke is a segment that features the show's DJ, Tony, singing often wrong-but-hilarious lyrics to popular songs.
Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie is a segment in which Sophia Grace & Rosie interview celebrity guests on the show, all while enjoying cookies and tea.
ApPARENTly Confused is a segment where Ellen shows messages by parents who don't understand texting and technology.
In Your FACEbook is a segment where Ellen shares funny Facebook photos taken from the profile pages of audience members.
Weekly Tweetly Roundup is a segment where Ellen shares funny and interesting tweets.
Classic Joke Thursday is a segment where Ellen shares funny jokes/puns, usually in a conversation with the show's DJ.
This Plus That is a segment where a montage of dancing audience members is shown usually combined with humorous sound effects.
Just KID-ink is a segment where Ellen shares funny drawings from kids.
INSTA-grammification is a segment where Ellen shares funny and unusual pictures from the show's Instagram page.
"Vine After Vine" is a segment where Ellen shares funny 6 second video clips from the popular mobile app Vine.
"Grand Design" an online segment where Ellen, with presenters and home makeover experts the "Kitchen Cousins" John Colaneri and Anthony Carrino would redesign a room in just 24 hours on a budget of $1,000 dollars.
"What Have YOU Been Up to on Facebook?" is a recurring segment in which Ellen reveals some personal and private information of the public to the audience.
"Starbucks Prank!" is a recurring segment in which Ellen send popular celebrities out to Starbucks to prank the cashiers.
"What The Heck Are These Kids Talking About?" is a former segment in which Ellen reviews rap lyrics and tries to figure out what they mean.
"Celebrity Pranks!" is a segment where Ellen often scares Taylor Swift (as she falls for it the most) and other famous celebrities.
"Chat Time With Ellen!" is a talk-show segment in which Ellen talks about – or to – people who have made viral videos.
Can Andy Say That? is a segment in which Ellen has the show's executive producer, Andy Lassner, repeat funny phrases that are filled with double entendres and sexual innuendo.
Haunted House (the segment is actually untitled) is an annual segment in which Ellen sends her writer, Amy Rhodes, to various haunted houses in the days leading up to Halloween. In recent years, Amy has been joined in the haunted houses by her own mother, as well as the show's executive producer Andy Lassner. Celebrities like Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Eric Stonestreet and DeGeneres's wife Portia de Rossi have also been sent to a haunted house.
Average Andy is a segment where Ellen sends her executive producer Andy Lassner to learn new skills from the world's most talented people.
Throwback Thursday is a segment where every Thursday Ellen revisits funny moments from previous seasons.
"Who's In My Bushes?" is a segment where a celebrity is hidden in decorative bushes in which Ellen will ask questions to that celebrity and eventually comes out when figured. However, during this segment, Ellen already knows who the celebrity is and the audience will just play along.
Take That, China! is a segment where Ellen makes jokes about impractical and often unwise American inventions.
Breaking News is a segment where news anchor Devin Scillian interrupts the show and delivers unusually mundane, humorous breaking news.
Why I Don't Have Kids is a segment where Ellen shows pictures or videos sent in by viewers of crazy situations they have encountered with their kids.
Epic or Fail is a segment considered to be Ellen's favorite game where Ellen shows several stunts or tricks caught on tape, and when the videos are paused, Ellen, the audience, and even guest celebrities have to guess the ending's outcome.
Hot Hands is a game where some audience member or celebrities get on a special seat and name the celebrities which are shown on the screen as much as possible in 30 seconds.
5 Second Rule is a game where Ellen and celebrity contestants have to think on their feet and list three answers that fall into a given category in only five seconds.

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text: Heads Up!

text: Heads Up! is a game that DeGeneres plays with other celebrities. The game originally has players guess the word on the physical cards held to another player's head as time counts down. DeGeneres and Warner Bros. Entertainment developed an app version of this game. The game became a huge success after its May 2013 launch, and it immediately shot to the top of the App Store and was downloaded over 650,000 times in its first month. Totally,it has been download for more than 25 million times by July 2016. It remains among Apple's top-paid apps three years after launch.[5]

text: Dancing[edit]

text: Since the show's debut, DeGeneres has segued from her opening monologue by doing a dance. The dancing proved to be extremely popular with viewers, and has since progressed to a segment where DeGeneres dances into the audience, sometimes borrowing a coat or purse from someone's chair, and taking it with her. She has also featured a segment in which people teach her new dance moves.

text: One of her most famous dance moves is dancing over the table, where she straddles the coffee table and dances from one end to the other. Although she does not do it every day, dancing over the table is a recurring theme. As an April Fools' Day prank in 2009, the show's staff placed a wider table top over her normal table. During the show, when DeGeneres attempted to dance over it, she barely made it across, being forced on her tip-toes and using the table as leverage. On the seventh-season premiere, DeGeneres performed a dance segment with the cast of So You Think You Can Dance.

text: In September 2009, four major record labels sued the producers of the show for unspecified damages over the dance routine, for allegedly using songs without permission.[6]

text: Sophia Grace and Rosie[edit]

text: Sophia Grace Brownlee (born April 18, 2003[7]) and her cousin Rosie McClelland (born September 7, 2006[8]) were first invited to the show after DeGeneres saw their YouTube video cover of "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj, which Sophia Grace and Rosie posted on YouTube on September 19, 2011.[9] The then eight- and five-year-old Essex, England natives became recurring cast members on the show, where they hosted their own segment called "Tea Time with Sophia Grace and Rosie". In the segment, the duo invites and interviews guest celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Hugh Grant, Julie Bowen, Harry Connick Jr., LL Cool J, Justin Bieber, and Reese Witherspoon over to tea. Sophia Grace and Rosie won the "Choice Webstar" at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards for this segment. They have also been correspondents during the red carpet events such as the Grammy Awards, the American Music Awards, the Billboard Music Awards, and the MTV Video Music Awards. They appeared in the third episode (June 2013) and the eleventh episode (September 2013) of Sam & Cat. According to her representative, Sophia Grace had been cast as Little Red Riding Hood in Walt Disney Pictures' film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, but she withdrew before production.[10] Sophia Grace & Rosie starred in their own movie called Sophia Grace and Rosie's Royal Adventure.

text: DeGeneres's mother[edit]

text: DeGeneres's mother, Betty, attends the show regularly and is frequently featured on camera.[citation needed]

text: Production information[edit]

text: Taping location[edit]

text: From 2003 to early 2008, the program was originally taped at studio 11 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California. It is now filmed in studio 1 (named "The Ellen Stage" since her 2,000th show that took place in November, 2015) on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank.

text: Personnel[edit]

text: The executive producers are DeGeneres, Mary Connelly, Ed Glavin, Andy Lassner and Jim Paratore. The writing staff has included Karen Kilgariff (former head writer), Karen Anderson, Margaret Smith and DeGeneres. Margaret Smith left the show to work on her own projects, including her first book, What Was I Thinking? How Being a Stand Up Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother (Crossroad Publishing, 2008). Amy Rhodes, a former writer for the program, regularly appeared on camera during various segments.

text: DJ[edit]

text: Unlike most talk shows, the show uses a disc jockey to supply music rather than a band. Originally, the role was filled by Los Angeles-based DJ Scott K, who lasted only a few weeks. He was later replaced by Tony Okungbowa, who DJed through season 3. Due to his growing acting career, Okungbowa left the show, and a few guest DJs were brought in to try out for the position, including New Orleans's own DJ Chris Guénard aka 'REVIVE.' Tony was replaced by actor/DJ Jon Abrahams for the fourth-season premiere. Abrahams stayed on the show for one season, and also left as his acting career grew. Ted Stryker of KROQ, who is also co-host of Loveline with Dr. Drew, was the DJ for the fifth season. Stryker stayed for one season until Okungbowa returned. In a recent[when?] episode, DJ Pauly D from Jersey Shore deejayed when Okungbowa was promoting his CD.

text: Starting in season 11, several episodes include celebrity "guest DJs" filling the DJ position in Okungbowa's absence. The most frequently appearing guest DJs are Stephen "tWitch" Boss of So You Think You Can Dance fame, and comedian Loni Love.

text: Okungbowa made a return appearance on the show in the April 28, 2014 episode, while Loni made a return in the June 5, 2015 episode.

text: 2007 Writers Guild strike[edit]

text: DeGeneres, a member of the Writers Guild of America, supported the 2007 writers' strike.[11] However, on November 9, 2007, DeGeneres crossed the picket line to tape more episodes of her TV show stating:

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It was explained to me that no other daytime shows have shut down. I've got 135 employees that rely on me for a paycheck. But it's been the hardest thing in the world driving onto this lot.[11]
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text: DeGeneres decided to abstain from doing a monologue on her show (which is typically written by WGA writers) during the strike.[12] Her show continued production as normal with the exception of her monologue being omitted. The WGAE issued a statement condemning DeGeneres, stating she was "not welcome in NY."[13] DeGeneres's representatives asserted that she did not violate the WGA's agreement, arguing that she is competing with other first-run syndicated shows like Dr. Phil and Live with Regis and Kelly during the competitive November sweeps period, and that DeGeneres must fulfill her duties as host and producer, lest her show lose its time slot or be held in breach of contract. In addition, a statement defending DeGeneres was subsequently issued by AFTRA, pointing out that DeGeneres also works under the AFTRA TV Code, which bars her from striking. The WGAE then issued a response pointing out that DeGeneres is also a Writers Guild member, and that any writing work she did on her show during the strike constituted struck work.[14][15]

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Special episodes[edit]

text: Several episodes have aired with a special theme or format, including a "Backwards Show", entire episodes themed around Broadway productions, a Thanksgiving special taped in the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, and an entire episode which included Deltalina filmed on a Delta airplane. Other recurring themes feature products from sponsors DeGeneres likes (similar to Oprah's Favorite Things from the now ended The Oprah Winfrey Show), specials following awards show telecasts (such as the Academy Awards), and numerous milestone episodes (e.g., DeGeneres's 1,000th, 1300th, 1500th, etc. broadcast). In 2017, an episode aired commemorating the 20th anniversary of The Puppy Episode, the episode of her sitcom Ellen, in which her character Ellen Morgan came out as a lesbian.

text: The episode titled "Sirdeaner Walker Interview" was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding Talk Show Episode" during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.[16]

text: On January 11, 2013, DeGeneres announced that she was going to Australia in March with her wife, Australian actress Portia de Rossi, after having wanted to go for many years, however being unable to visit in summer (which she preferred) due to taping conflicts of her show.[17] Toward the end of the episode, which featured Nicole Kidman as a guest, she announced to the audience that they will also be going on a holiday to Australia in a giveaway special.

text: On March 3, 2014, DeGeneres hosted the show live, one day after her being the host of the 86th Academy Awards. This episode features this year's Oscar winners Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto and Lupita Nyong'o as guests.

text: On two occasions, DeGeneres was unable to host the show due to sickness. On January 24, 2014, guest DJ for that day Ellie Kemper filled in to be the first guest host on the show. On September 29, 2016, day four of the 7th Annual Cat Week, Miley Cyrus took over as host.

text: Reception[edit]

text: The show has been met with considerable success, and has won 59 Daytime Emmy Awards by 2017. Additionally, as the show's popularity has increased, the program has appeared in plot elements of storylines in several scripted television programs, including Joey, Six Feet Under and The Bernie Mac Show, among others.

text: Ratings[edit]

text: The show averages around 3.9 million viewers per episode, according to daytime television ratings, making it a highly viewed daytime show.[18] It usually only trails behind Live with Kelly, and Dr. Phil in total viewers. By 2017, the show passed Live with Kelly and only trails behind Dr. Phil.[19]

text: Awards[edit]

text: The show has won a total of 59 Daytime Emmy Awards by 2017, including four for Outstanding Talk Show (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) and six for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017). The show first fourteen seasons surpassed the record held by The Oprah Winfrey Show,which received 47 Daytime Emmy Awards before Winfrey chose to stop submitting it for consideration in 2000. DeGeneres herself has won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host four times (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). The show has also won Emmys in numerous writing and technical categories. It won the Genesis Award for "Best Talk Show" in 2010 and 2012. DeGeneres has won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Daytime TV Host" 14 times,making her the most awarded person in the People's Choice Awards's history.[20]