November
14, 1987
Italy
2-Sweden 1
UEFA
European Championship Qualifying-Group 2
Venue: Naples (Napoli)-Stadio San
Paolo
Attendance: 59,
045
Referee: Adolf Prokop
(East Germany)
Goalscorers: (Italy): Gianluca Vialli
27, 45
(Sweden): Peter Larsson 38
Lineups:
Italy:
1-Walter
Zenga (Internazionale Football Club- Milano)
[12 / 0]
2-Giuseppe
Bergomi (Internazionale Football Club- Milano) [41 / 3]
3-Giovanni Francini (Societa Sportiva Calcio Napoli) [5 / 0]
(14-Luigi de Agostini (Juventus Football Club-Torino) [5 / 0] 26th)
4-Franco
Baresi (Associazione Calcio Milan-Milano)
[16 / 0]
5-Ciro
Ferrara (Societa Sportiva Calcio Napoli) [3 / 0]
6-Salvattore
Bagni (Societa Sportiva Calcio Napoli) [40
/ 4] (15-Carlo
Ancelotti (Associazione Calcio Milan-Milano) [16 / 1] 89th)
7-Roberto
Donadoni (Associazione Calcio Milan-Milano)
[11 / 1]
8-Fernando
de Napoli (Societa Sportiva Calcio Napoli) [16 / 1]
9-Alessandro
Altobelli (Internazionale Football
Club- Milano) [55 / 24]
10-Giuseppe
Giannini (Associazione Sportiva Roma) [10 / 0]
11-Gianluca
Vialli (Unione Calcio Sampdoria-Genova)
[20 / 4]
Coach:
Azeglio Vicini
Booked:
Gianluca Vialli 55
Other Subs :
12-Stefano
Tacconi (Juventus Football Club-Torino)
13-Paolo
Maldini (Associazione Calcio Milan-Milano)
16-Roberto
Mancini (Unione Calcio Sampdoria-Genova)
Team
Captain: Alessandro Altobelli
Official
Kit Supplier/Designer: Diadora
Uniform
Colors: Blue Shirts, White
Shorts, Blue Socks
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 147, March 1988
(Italy squad, Top, left to right: Walter Zenga, Alessandro Altobelli, Ciro Ferrara, Giuseppe Bergomi, Fernando de Napoli, Giovanni Francini, Bottom, left to right: Gianluca Vialli, Salvatore Bagni, Roberto Donadoni, Giuseppe Giannini, Franco Baresi)
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Sweden:
1-Thomas
Ravelli (Östers Idrottsförening- Vaxjo) [52 / 0]
2-Roland
Nilsson (IFK
(Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna) Göteborg) [11 / 0]
3-Glenn Hysén (Associazione Calcio Fiorentina-Firenze / Italy) [47 / 6]
4-Peter
Larsson (IFK
(Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna) Göteborg) [21 / 2]
5-Torbjörn
Persson (Malmö Fotbollforening) [8 / 0]
6-Jonas
Thern (Malmö Fotbollforening) [2 / 0]
8-Robert
Prytz (Berner
Sport Club Young Boys / Switzerland)
[44 / 13]
7-Glenn
Strömberg (Atalanta
Bergamasca Calcio-Bergamo / Italy) [37 / 5]
9-Björn
Nilsson (Berner
Sport Club Young Boys ./ Switzerland) [16 / 1] (14-Anders Limpar (Örgryte
Idrottssällskap- Göteborg) [8 / 1] 68th)
11-Stefan
Pettersson (IFK
(Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna) Göteborg) [10 / 0]
10-Johnny
Ekström (Empoli Football Club / Italy) [16 / 6] (16-Dan Corneliusson (Como
Calcio / Italy) [20
/ 11]
68th)
Coach:
Olle Nordin
Subs
bench:
12-Jan Möller (Malmö Fotbollforening)
13-Stig Fredriksson (IFK (Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna) Göteborg)
15-Mats Gren (Grasshopper
-Club Zürich / Switzerland)
18-Andreas
Ravelli (Östers Idrottsförening- Vaxjo)
Team
Captain: Glenn Hysén
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Adidas
Uniform
Colors: Yellow Shirts, Blue
Shorts , Yellow Socks
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Photo
from: European Football Yearbook, 88-89, Editor Mike Hammond
(Top,
left to right: Björn Nilsson, Torbjörn Persson, Glenn
Hysén, Peter
Larsson, Glenn Strömberg, Thomas Ravelli, Bottom, left to right: Jonas Thern,
Stefan Pettersson, Robert Prytz, Roland Nilsson)
Note: Johnny Ekström is missing from team photo |
Notes:
-Match
number 444 for Italy and number 638 for Sweden
-This
was the 17th meeting between the nations.
-The
previous match between the nations, as well as the previous on Swedish soil and
Sweden’s previous victory was the first leg of these EC Qualifiers at Stockholm
on June 3, 1987 that Sweden won 1 to 0.
Italy
players: Zenga, Bergomi, Francini, de Napoli, Mancini, De Agostini, Giannini,
Altobelli, Vialli, Tacconi, Ferrara and Donadoni and Sweden Players: Thomas
Ravelli, Roland Nilsson, Hysen, Peter
Larsson, Fredriksson, Andreas Ravelli, Prytz, Strömberg, Limpar, Ekström, Jan Möller and Torbjörn Persson were present that day (on the field and/or the substitutes bench).
Luigi
De Agostini was booked in that match.
Peter
Larsson once again scored Sweden’s winner.
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Photo
from: Guerin Sportivo, November 18-24, 1987
(Sweden and Italy squads) |
-The
previous match between the nations, in the same stadium was another EC
qualifier on October 15, 1983 that Sweden won 3 to 0.
Italy
players: Bergomi, Baresi, Bagni, Ancelotti and Altobelli and Sweden Players:
Thomas Ravelli, Hysen, Fredriksson, Prytz, Strömberg, Corneliusson and Andreas
Ravelli were present that day (on the field and/or the substitutes bench).
Strömberg
scored twice for Sweden.
This
was Italy’s worst home defeat in 28 years.
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| (Captains
Hysen and Altobelli) |
-The next match between the nations, as well as
Sweden’s next victory, would be a Friendly in Göteborg on June
2, 1998 that Sweden won 1 to 0.
Italy
player: Giuseppi Bergomi and Sweden Player: Roland Nilsson were present that
day (on the field and/or the substitutes bench).
- Italy’s
previous victory was a Friendly on September 26, 1984 at Milano that they won 1
to 0.
Italy
players: Bergomi, Bagni and Altobelli and
Sweden Players: Hysen, Fredriksson, Strömberg, Corneliusson, Peter Larsson
and Gren were present that day (on the field and/or the substitutes bench).
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 147, March 1988
(Franco Baresi and Glenn Stromberg)
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-Italy’s
next victory would be a Friendly on February 23, 2000 at Palermo that they
would win 1 to 0.
Italy
player: Ciro Ferrara was present that day (on the field and/or the substitutes
bench).
-The
other teams in this UEFA European Championship qualifying group were Portugal,
Switzerland and Malta.
Italy
won this group and qualified to the Finals in West Germany the following June.
-Glenn
Strömberg also scored against Italy in a UEFA European Championship Qualifier on
May 29, 1983 at Göteborg in a 2 to 0 win.
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 147, March 1988
(Salvatore Bagni ,Glenn Stromberg and Peter Larsson)
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-On
November 2, 1987, Olle Nordin selected the following squad:
Goalkeepers:
Jan
Möller, Thomas
Ravelli
Defenders:
Stig
Fredriksson, Glenn Hysén,
Peter Larsson, Roland Nilsson, Torbjörn Persson, Andreas Ravelli
Midfielders/Strikers:
Anders Limpar, Björn Nilsson, Stefan Pettersson, Robert Prytz, Glenn Strömberg,
Jonas Thern, Johnny Ekström, Mats Gren, Mats Magnusson (Benfica), Lennart Nillson (IFK Göteborg)
Dan
Corneliusson was later called up
-On
November 9, 1987, Azeglio Vicini selected the following squad:
Goalkeepers:
Walter Zenga and Stefano Tacconi,
Defenders:
Giuseppe Bergomi, Giovanni Francini, Luigi De Agostini, Franco Baresi, Roberto
Tricella (Juventus), Paolo Maldini, Ciro Ferrara,
Midfielders:
Salvatore Bagni, Carlo Ancelotti, Gianfranco Mateolli (Internazionale Milano),
Fernando De Napoli, Giuseppe Giannini, Roberto Donadoni
Strikers:
Alessandro Altobelli, Gianluca Vialli , Roberto Mancini
-On
the same day (November 9th), former defender and Captain, Juventus’
Antonio Cabrini announced his international retirement.
As
a result Francini started in his place.
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 147, March 1988
(Fernando de Napoli, Peter Larsson and Gianluca Vialli)
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-Italy
was missing Inter’s Riccardo Ferri in defense. Ciro Ferrara deputized in his
place.
-Thomas
and Andreas Ravelli are twins.
-Peter
Larsson scored in both matches vs. Italy in 1987; there were his only goals for
Sweden up to that point.
-Sweden’s
Torbjörn Persson and Björn Nilsson played their last matches for Sweden.
-This
was Salvatore Bagni’s penultimate match for Italy. The following month he would
play his final match vs. Portugal. By the New Year he would be supplanted by
Carlo Ancelotti in the squad.
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Photo
from: European Football Yearbook, 88-89, Editor Mike Hammond
(Gianluca Vialli ‘s first goal from a narrow
angle) |
-Likewise
by the New Year, Giovanni Francini would be supplanted by Paolo Maldini as
outside back.
Veteran
Alessandro Altobelli would also be edged out by Roberto Mancini.
-Azeglio
Vicini had sought to rejuvenate the Italian national team and had always stated
that the Euros were to serve as preparation and experience for the upcoming
World Cup that they were to host in 1990.
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Photo
from: Guerin Sportivo, November 18-24, 1987
(Salvatore Bagni and Glenn Stromberg) |
-Goalscorer
Gianluca Vialli was also booked in the 55th minute.
-All
three goals were scored in the first half.
-For
the first goal, Luigi De Agostini passed to Vialli on the left side who scored
from a close angle to the roof of the net.
-For
Sweden’s equalizer, Stromberg crossed from right into the goalmouth, Pettersson
laid it back to Larsson who hammered home from the edge of the penalty area.
-For
Italy’s winner, Luigi De Agostini took a free kick from the left side to the
right side for Vialli, whose first time volley ricochet on the ground and over
Ravelli.
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Photo From: Onze, Issue 147, March 1988
(Fernando de Napoli, Peter Larsson and Gianluca Vialli)
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Photo
from: Guerin Sportivo, November 18-24, 1987
(Walter Zenga making a save from Peter Larsson) |
-Sweden
actually outshot Italy 12 to 9.
-Dan
Corneliusson’s next cap would be in 1990.
-Giovanni
Francini, Ciro Ferrara, Fernando de Napoli and Salvatore Bagni were playing in
their home stadium.
At
that stage they were League leaders in the Serie A, though by the end of the
season, AC Milan overtook them.
-Ciro
Ferrara, Fernando de Napoli and Salvatore Bagni had won the Scudetto with
Napoli the previous season (1986/87).
-Franco
Baresi, Paolo Maldini, Carlo Ancelotti and Roberto Donadoni won the Scudetto
that season with AC Milan.
-Gianluca
Vialli and Roberto Mancini won the Coppa Italia with Sampdoria that season.
-Alessandro
Altobelli skippered Italy following Cabrini’s retirement. By the New Year,
Giuseppe Bergomi was the official Captain of Italy.
On
June 23,1988, Altobelli announced his international retirement following the
Euros.
-As
stated in previous entries in this blog, Roberto Donadoni has managed the
Italian National team.
-Roberto
Donadoni and Glenn Strömberg were club mates at Atalanta (1984-86).
-Roland
Nilsson, Glenn Hysén, Peter Larsson and Stig Fredriksson won the UEFA Cup
in 1987 with IFK Göteborg.
-Glenn Hysén, Glenn Strömberg, Johnny Ekström and Dan Corneliusson
were playing for Italian clubs.
-Glenn
Strömberg was playing in the Serie B for Atalanta. He played there for 8
seasons (1984-1992)
-
Robert Prytz joined Glenn Strömberg at Atalanta the following season.
-Jonas
Thern and Anders Limpar eventually joined Italian clubs. Thern was in fact
playing in his future home stadium. He joined Napoli in 1992.
Limpar
joined Cremonese in 1989.
Thern
also played for AS Roma in his career.
-Glenn Hysén’s Tobias is a current Sweden
International.
-Peter
Larsson joined Ajax Amsterdam in the midseason and Stefan Pettersson joined him
the next season. Peter Larsson reached the Cup Winners Cup Final that season
with Ajax.
-Sweden’s
Roland Nilsson, Glenn Hysén Anders Limpar and Italy’s Gianluca Vialli and
Roberto Mancini played in the English Premier League in their careers.
-Both
Vialli and Ancelotti have managed Chelsea.
-Luigi
De Agostini replaced Francini in the 26th minute and contributed to
both of Vialli’s goals.
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