Nazio-Juve

Nazio-Juve was the nickname of the group of Juventus F.C. players called up to have been the backbone to the Italy national football team managed by Vittorio Pozzo to have won the 1934 FIFA World Cup and two editions of the International Cup (1927-1930 and 1933-1935).

With this group the side managed by Carlo Carcano have dominated the Italian football and had one of the best teams in Europe during the first half of the 1930s, winning amongst others a record of five national championships in a row and reached the Central European Club Cup's semifinals since 1932 to 1935, and included the formidable defensive trio Combi-Rosetta-Caligaris, Giovanni Ferrari, Felice Borel II and the oriundi Luis Monti, Raimundo Orsi and Renato Cesarini.

Players

Italy's line-up with five Juventus F.C. players in 1934 FIFA World Cup Final against Czechoslovakia. Rome, 10 June 1934.

• CEC Luigi Bertolini
• Carlo Bigatto I
• CEC Felice Placido Borel II
• CEC Umberto Caligaris
• CEC Luigi Cevenini III
• CEC Renato Cesarini
• CEC Gianpiero Combi
• CEC Giovanni Ferrari
• CEC Luis Monti
• CEC Federico Munerati
• CEC Raimundo Orsi
• CEC Virginio Rosetta
• Mario Varglien I
• Giovanni Varglien II
• Giovanni Vecchina

Legend:
FIFA World Cup winners during their careers at Juventus F.C.
CEC Central European International Cup winners during their careers at Juventus F.C.

See also

• Italian national football team
• Contribution to the Italian national football team