Blocco-Juve

Blocco-Juve (Juve Block), also known as Blocco Juventus, 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 Enzo Bearzot to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup Final and reached the semifinals of the 1978 FIFA World Cup and in the 1980 European Championship.

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

Players

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

Pietro Anastasi

Romeo Benetti

Roberto Bettega

Antonio Cabrini

Franco Causio

Antonello Cuccureddu

Giuseppe Furino

Claudio Gentile

Francesco Morini

Paolo Rossi

Gaetano Scirea

Luciano Spinosi

Marco Tardelli

Dino Zoff

See also

Italy national football team

Juventus F.C. and the Italy national football team

Juventus F.C. in European football

Nazio-Juve

List of players to have won all international club competitions

List of players to have won the three main UEFA club competitions

Footnotes and references

Bibliography

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Nicknamed groups of association football players

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1978–79 in Italian football

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1980–81 in Italian football

1981–82 in Italian football

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1983–84 in Italian football

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Italy at the 1978 FIFA World Cup

Italy at the 1982 FIFA World Cup

Italy at UEFA Euro 1980

Association football player non-biographical articles