- Massimo Moratti
Massimo Moratti (born May 16, 1945 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is an Italian oil tycoon. He is the owner and president of the Serie A football club Internazionale. He is the son of the beloved Angelo Moratti, who was owner and president during Inter's golden age in the 1960s. It has long been the younger Moratti's ambition to restore Inter to the heights they once knew under his father. He has to date fallen short of that goal, …
- Javier Zanetti
Javier Adelmar Zanetti (born August 10, 1973) is an Argentine football player. He has been a member of Serie A club Internazionale since 1995 being the team captain since 1999. He has also played in two World Cups for Argentina. Zanetti is the second most capped player ever for Argentina behind Roberto Ayala on 115 caps. Known as "Pupi" in Argentina, he was nicknamed "Il Trattore" (The Tractor) after moving to Italy because of his strength, resilience, …
- Francesco Totti
Francesco Totti, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born 27 September 1976 in Rome) is an Italian football player. He plays for A.S. Roma in Serie A and for the Italian national team, with whom he won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Francesco Totti's position is that of a striker or an attacking midfielder, though he is best known for playing as the trequartista (or second striker), a compromise between the two positions where the player acts as a link between midfield and attack.
- Roberto Mancini
Roberto Mancini (born November 27, 1964) is an Italian football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of F.C. Internazionale Milano in Serie A.
- Adriano Galliani
Adriano Galliani (born 30 July 1944 in Monza) is an Italian entrepreneur involved in Italian football. He is most famously known as being both the past CEO of AC Milan and past President of Serie A. Galliani was forced to resign from both these positions in the summer of 2006 due to the findings of the Calciopoli investigations into match fixing in Italian football. Because of this tribunal, Galliani was handed a 1 year ban from football, …
- Carlo Ancelotti
Carlo Ancelotti (born June 10, 1959 in Reggiolo) is a former football player and now coach. He has been coach of the Italian team A.C. Milan since November 2001 when he succeeded Fatih Terim. Before that he coached A.C. Reggiana 1919, Parma A.C. and Juventus F.C.. With numerous titles, notably two UEFA Champions League trophies and the prestigious Scudetto, won under his reign, he is arguably one of the most successful Milan coaches of all time.
- Marco Materazzi
Marco Materazzi, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born August 19, 1973 in Lecce) is an Italian football defender, who currently plays for Serie A club Internazionale, sometimes known as Inter Milan. He was a part of the Italian team that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he was headbutted by Zinedine Zidane, after having provoked him. Materazzi is tall and uses his physique to play as a tough and hard working defender.
- Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Yazid Zidane, popularly nicknamed Zizou, is a French former football midfielder who played for four European clubs, including Juventus FC and Real Madrid. As a member and later captain of the French national team he participated in two World Cup finals - including winning the tournament in 1998 - and in three European Championships, winning that tournament in 2000. Having gained fame in Europe as a playmaker for Juventus, …
- Christian Vieri
Christian "Bobo" Vieri (born July 12, 1973 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian football striker. He is currently unattached, having left Atalanta at the end of June 2007.
- Clarence Seedorf
Clarence Seedorf (born April 1, 1976 in Paramaribo, Suriname) is a Dutch-Surinamese football midfielder, who currently plays for AC Milan in Serie A. He was the first, and to date, the only person to have won the UEFA Champions League with three different clubs: Ajax (1995), Real Madrid (1998), and AC Milan (2003, 2007); he has also played for the clubs Sampdoria and Internazionale, and is a member of the Netherlands national team.
- Christian Panucci
Christian Panucci (born 12 April, 1973 in Savona) is an Italian football (soccer) player, who currently plays for AS Roma of Italian Serie A. Panucci is a renowned defender who usually plays on the right-hand side. He is a fierce tackler and can also do some good when going up field. He started playing with Genoa in 1992, and then moved to AC Milan. Panucci later moved to Real Madrid (becoming the first Italian to play for the Spanish powerhouse), Inter, Chelsea, …
- Delio Rossi
Delio Rossi (born November 26, 1960 in Rimini) is an Italian football (soccer) manager. He is currently head coach of Serie A club Lazio.
- Filippo Inzaghi
Filippo "Pippo" Inzaghi, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Turkey Super Lig teams Beşiktaş JK. His positional sense near the goal has helped him score many of his career goals as he is considered one of the greatest goal poachers to ever play the game.
- Luciano Spalletti
Luciano Spalletti (born 7 March 1959 in Certaldo, Florence) is an Italian football coach who currently manages A.S. Roma in Serie A. A former football player for Serie C teams such as Empoli and Spezia, Spalletti's early career in management led him to struggling Empoli, where he lead the Tuscanian side to two consecutive promotions from Serie C1 to Serie A. However, it was at Udinese where he really began to make an impact as a manager.
- Alessandro Nesta
Alessandro Nesta, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born March 19, 1976 in Rome) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. He plays centre back for AC Milan in Serie A and also in the Italian National Team. Having previously played for S.S. Lazio, Nesta transferred to A.C. Milan from Lazio in 2002 for approximately €30 million paid over three years, after being valued at over £50 million by Lazio a year earlier.
- Rolando Bianchi
Rolando Bianchi (born February 15, 1983 in Port-De-Bouc, Bergamo) is an Italian footballer, currently playing for Manchester City. His position is centre forward. He is widely considered as one of the brightest promises of Italian football, and during the 2006-2007 season he showed why he is so highly regarded having been one of the only bright spots for Reggina. Bianchi began his career in 2000 with Atalanta. He played twenty games for the first team, without scoring, …
- Lilian Thuram
Lilian Thuram is a French professional football defender, the most capped player in the history of the France national team. He has played at the top division level for over 15 seasons, including ten in Italy's Serie A. With the France national team, Thuram won the 1998 World Cup and the Euro 2000. Before Thuram pursued a football career, he aspired to be a Roman Catholic priest, until he found that he wanted to make use of his football talents.
- Alberto Aquilani
Alberto Aquilani (July 7, 1984) is an Italian football midfielder who currently plays for AS Roma. Aquilani is well-known through out Italy for his playmaking capabilities, his consistent performances, his superb range of passing and most of all his eccentric style of dribbling.
- Gennaro Gattuso
Gennaro Ivan "Rino" Gattuso, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born January 9 1978 in Corigliano Calabro) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. His position is a defensive midfielder; however, he sometimes plays on the right side of midfield. He currently plays for A.C. Milan, with whom he won the UEFA Champions League in both the 2002/03 and 2006/07 seasons and "Serie A" in 2003/2004.
- Cristian Chivu
Cristian Eugen Chivu (born October 26, 1980 in Reşiţa, Romania) is a Romanian footballer. Captain of the Romanian national team. His first professional club was CSM Reşiţa. After moving to Universitatea Craiova his reputation began to rise and his performances sparked interest from some larger clubs outside of Romania. Dutch club Ajax Amsterdam was particularly impressed and recruited him in 1999. In the same year, he was chosen to represent the Romanian Under-20 team.
- David Suazo
Óscar David Suazo Velázquez is a Honduran footballer, who currently plays striker for Internazionale of Serie A. Suazo is one of the top players currently playing for the Honduras national football team, and he was a member of the Honduran squad that competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
- Daniel Andersson
Daniel Andersson ['daːnijɛl 'ɑndɛ(r)ʃɔn] (born August 28, 1977 in Borgeby) is a Swedish football midfielder. He has played 41 international matches for the Sweden national team, and was a squad player for the Euro 2000, the 2002 FIFA World Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He played for Bjärreds IF as a youngster, but joined Malmö FF in 1994. He gradually became a star in the Swedish league, and was bought by Italian Serie A outfit AS Bari.
- Giuseppe Rossi
Giuseppe Rossi (born February 1, 1987) is an American-born Italian football player. He currently plays for the English Premier League side Manchester United. He plays in the second striker position. Rossi was raised in Clifton, New Jersey, in the USA. His parents were Italian immigrants, his father being a coach. When he was offered a spot on the youth team of Parma, he and his family moved to Italy until Manchester United bought him when he was 17.
- Antonio di Natale
Antonio Di Natale (born 13 October 1977, in Napoli) is an Italian football striker currently playing for Udinese. He was brought up in the Empoli youth system and was sent on loan to smaller teams before becoming a protagonist in 1999. He impressed many while playing for Empoli in Serie A and even received his first Azzurri call-up. When Empoli was relegated he moved to Udinese. As of October 2006, he has 7 caps with the National team and 1 goal, …
- Vincenzo Iaquinta
Vincenzo Iaquinta, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born November 21, 1979 in Cutro, Crotone) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer. As many Calabrians in the 1980s his parents emigrated to Emilia-Romagna, in Northern Italy, because of better job opportunities. Prior to joining Udinese in 2000, Iaquinta played with his brother in the lower divisions for "Reggiolo" (1996-97), Padova (1998), and Castel di Sangro (1998-2000).
- Ronaldo
Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima, is a Brazilian professional footballer. He plays as a striker for Brazil and the Italian Serie A club AC Milan. He has been nicknamed "The Phenomenon". Pelé named him one of the 125 greatest footballers in March 2004. Ronaldo has enjoyed success at the international level, winning the 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cups with Brazil. Ronaldo has won three FIFA World Player of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2002).
- Fabio Grosso
Fabio Grosso, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born November 28, 1977 is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays for Ligue 1 team Olympique Lyonnais and the Italian national football team.
- Simone Perrotta
Simone Perrotta, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born September 17, 1977 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England) is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer midfielder, who currently plays for A.S. Roma in Serie A. He was member of the Italian national football team that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Perrotta lived in England until the age of 6, attending school at St. Ann's primary school in Ashton-under-Lyne.
- Ricardo Oliveira
Ricardo Oliveira is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a striker.
- Valon Behrami
Valon Behrami (born 19 April 1985 in Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo, Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Swiss midfielder currently playing professional football for S.S. Lazio of Italian Serie A. Born in Kosovo to Albanian parents, Behrami moved to Stabio, a village in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, due to war when he was only a child, and he then obtained the Swiss nationality. Behrami started playing football in Swiss sides FC Stabio, FC Chiasso and FC Lugano.
- Giorgio Chiellini
Giorgio Chiellini is an Italian footballer who currently plays for Juventus of the Italian Serie A. He is an attacking left back who has also played in midfield. Chiellini started his career with Livorno where he played for two years each in Serie C1 and Serie B. He was signed by Juventus in summer 2004, for €6.5 million, but immediately sold on co-ownership deal to Fiorentina for €3.5 million, where he played for 2004/05 season.
- Cristiano Lucarelli
Cristiano Lucarelli (born October 4, 1975 in Livorno) is an Italian football player. He plays as a forward for FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Ukrainian Premier League.
- Cristiano Zanetti
Cristiano Zanetti (born April 14, 1977 in Carrara) is an Italian football defensive midfielder, who currently plays for Juventus of Serie A. Zanetti recently moved to Juve on a free transfer, despite the recent controversy surrounding the Turin giants. This ended Zanetti's second spell with Inter, having previously played for them in 1998. He also played for Fiorentina (1993-96), Venezia (1996-97), Reggina (1997-98), Cagliari (1998-99), and AS Roma (1999-2001).
- Andrea Barzagli
Andrea Barzagli is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays in the role of defender for Serie A team US Palermo. His first football appearances were for Rondinella Firenze; then he played for Pistoiese, Ascoli and Chievo, before being signed by Palermo in the summer of 2004. He has 12 caps for the Italian national football team, …
- Francesco Coco
Francesco Coco is an Italian football (soccer) defender, who currently plays for Internazionale of Serie A.
- Walter Samuel
Walter Adrián Samuel (born March 22, 1978 in Laborde, Córdoba Province) is an Argentine football (soccer) player, who currently plays for Internazionale of the Italian league. Samuel started playing professionally in 1996 in Argentina for Newell's Old Boys, and a year later moved to Boca Juniors where he stayed until 2000. In that year AS Roma bought his contract for €19.8m. He gained notoriety as one of the best defense players of the Italian league, …
- Sebastian Giovinco
Sebastian Giovinco is an Italian footballer who is currently playing for Serie A club Empoli, on loan from Juventus. He made his first team debut for Juventus on May 12, 2007 in a Serie B league match against Bologna, entering in as a substitute in place of Raffaele Palladino. Giovinco marked his debut with a splendid assist for Trezeguet’s tap-in. On June 1, 2007 he made his first Italy U-21 appearance, …
- Christian Abbiati
Christian Abbiati (born July 8, 1977 in Abbiategrasso, Milan) is an Italian football goalkeeper who currently is contracted by AC Milan but out on loan to the Spanish La Liga team Atletico Madrid.
- John Carew
John Alieu Carew is a Norwegian footballer who plays for Aston Villa of England's Premier League. One of Norway's most famous football players, Carew is the son of a Gambian father and a Norwegian mother. He won the Norwegian Football Cup with Vålerenga I.F. in 1997, and the Norwegian Premier League with Rosenborg B.K. in 1999.
- Hanna Ljungberg
Hanna Ljungberg is a Swedish football (soccer) player, playing the position of forward. She plays for the club side Umeå IK and for the Swedish national team. Hanna Ljungberg is one of only two Swedish professional players in the Swedish women's league, Damallsvenskan. She was chosen as Swedish Player of the Year in 2002, winning the Diamond Ball (Diamantbollen).