There, only a few seconds were missing from winning the title against France, where Sylvain Wiltord and Ferrara's later teammate from Juventus David Trezeguet decided the game for the Blues (1:2 n. The same thing happened to him before the World Cup in France, where he played for the Azzurri in the quarter-finals against the hosts in a penalty shootout, the tournament ended. With the transfer to Juventus Turin, Ferrara became a regular player in the Squadra Azzurra, but he was injured before the European Championships in England in 1996 and was therefore out of the tournament. There he was given the position of Co coach and thus also contributed to winning the World Cup title in Germany in 2006. With him, Lilian Thuram also moved to Turin, who until then, together with Fabio Cannavaro, had been the heart of the stable defense in front of Buffon. The striker played for Fortuna Hjørring from 2014 to 2018, Paris Saint-Germain from 2018 to 2021 and Olympique Lyon from 2021 to 2023, but was loaned to Manchester United in 2022.
He also became champion in England, twice with Manchester United and once with Manchester City. In 1990 he was part of the Italian team that finished third against England in the home World Cup. After the 1990 championship, the club fell into decline at the beginning of the 1990s and only achieved seventh place under Bigon. To qualify for the UEFA Champions League, which was no longer considered certain under his predecessor. Here you have to ask yourself whether less can sometimes be more and the valuable commodity football is affected by all the fanfare from RTL and Co. Because of the manipulation scandal in Italian football and the associated resignation of the entire Juventus management, the plans were initially canceled Ice placed. He was named best young player (U21 and first World Cup participation) of the tournament. Sousa collected his first titles with Benfica. In his first season in the white and black jersey, he won his third Scudetto in 1994/95, which would be Juventus' twentieth overall, and won his second and Juve's last title in the cup competition with his triumph in the Coppa Italia. Before that, Ferrara's team lost the almost certain promotion to the Champions League round of 16 with a 4-1 defeat against FC Bayern Munich in the last group game, whereupon the young coach apologized to the fans.
He was then followed by the coaches Claudio Ranieri with a fourth place, Ottavio Bianchi with a short interlude for eleventh place and Marcello Lippi with sixth place, who signed with the Italian record champions Juventus after this one season in 1993/94 and his defense chief Ferrara to the old lady after ten years as a professional piloted. Diego Maradona was also playing in Naples at this time and led the team around Gianfranco Zola and Ferrara to their first Scudetto win and their second Coppa Italia success in the 1986/87 season. After two consecutive runner-up championships, in which they had to give way to the Milan clubs AC in 1987/88 and Inter in 1988/89, Ferrara's team under new coach Alberto Bigon won the last championship title for the SSC to date in 1989/90. Under goalkeeping legend Dino Zoff, Ferrara played his last games for the Italians at the 2000 European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands. At the age of 14, Ciro Ferrara temporarily used a wheelchair because he was suffering from pain caused by Osgood-Schlatter disease.
The midfielder is under contract with AS Roma. He was mostly used as a midfielder. At the 2016 European Football Championship in France, Matuidi was included as a regular player in the French squad. He was not nominated for the 1998 World Cup in France. He also played once in the Supercoppa Italiana and won it. The founding of a women's team was only made possible by a regulation passed in 2015 by the Italian football governing body Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, which allows Italian men's professional clubs to set up a women's football department and take over women's football clubs. Asensio made his debut for the U21 national team on March 26, 2015 in a 2-0 win against Norway. Del Piero played his last international match on September 10, 2008 in a 2-0 win against Georgia. After the unsuccessful Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, world champion coach Lippi replaced the hapless Roberto Donadoni on the bench of the Italian national team and also persuaded Ferrara to return as his assistant coach. Ciro Ferrara made his debut in the Italian national team on June 10, 1987 in a 3-1 win against Argentina.