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- Captain of the Italian national team from 1966 to 1977, he participated in the victorious 1968 European Championship, Italy's first success in the competition.
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Never more so than at the 1968 UEFA European Championship. They won the semi-final on a toss coin and were ten minutes from defeat in the decider before forcing a replay.
Facchetti was similarly nominated for the European Championship Team of the Tournament in 1968, and likewise for the World Cup in 1970. If this was not enough, Facchetti has been more recently engraved into the Italian Hall of Fame as of 2015 and the Inter Hall of Fame in 2019.
His Nerazzurri honours list is something else, including: four Scudetti, two European Cups, two Intercontinental Cups and a Coppa Italia. He also triumphed on the international stage, helping Italy become European Champions in 1968.
Jan 19, 2016 · At 22, Facchetti was already a double European champion. By 1965-66, Facchetti was at his most dangerous. He scored 12 goals in 38 games in all competitions and helped Inter to the scudetto again, this time proving more influential in attack than defence.
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Italy captain Facchetti made his Italy debut in 1963 and earned a then-record 94 caps, 70 as captain, including the 1968 UEFA European Championship final victory against Yugoslavia and FIFA...
Nov 26, 2023 · The period saw Inter clinching multiple Serie A titles and consecutive European Cups. However, his impact wasn’t limited to clubs alone. He soon became a mainstay in the Italian national team, earning his first cap in 1963 and contributing to Italy’s European Championship victory in 1968.
Facchetti made his debut for Italy on 23 March 1963, in a 1–0 away win in a European qualifier against Turkey. He was capped 94 times (a record at the time, since overtaken only by Dino Zoff , Paolo Maldini , Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluigi Buffon ) wearing the captain's armband 70 times and scoring three goals between 1963 and 1977; he is ...
