Torneo di Viareggio
The Torneo di Viareggio or officially Torneo Mondiale di Calcio Coppa Carnevale ( Worldwide Soccer Tournament Cup Carnival ) is a decades -find place football tournament for youth club teams in the Tuscan Viareggio.
The tournament is traditionally held every year during the same period was: from the Monday following the first Sunday of Carnival until Monday after the third Sunday of Carnival.
Participants are mainly Italian clubs, but also numerous international youth clubs have been represented since the second discharge in 1948. At the tournament take part 40 teams that are first divided into 10 groups of 4 teams each. The group winners and the top six runners-up will qualify for the subsequent rounds will be played until the final knock-out system.
List of winners of the tournament
So far, the following 20 teams could win the title:
- 8 x ACF Florence
- 8 x AC Milan
- 8 x Juventus
- 6 x Dukla Prague
- 6 x FC Turin
- 6 x Inter Milan
- 4 x Sampdoria
- 3 x Roma
- 2 x Atalanta Bergamo
- 2 x Vicenza Calcio
- 2 x Genoa
- 1 x Sparta Prague
- 1 x SSC Napoli
- 1 x AS Bari
- 1 x Partizan Belgrade
- 1 x FC Bologna
- 1 x Brescia Calcio
- 1 x AC Cesena
- 1 x FC Empoli
- 1 x Juventud
Known player
The tournament offers young, talented players ever again have the opportunity to present themselves to a wider audience. Particularly well known were the following:
- Italy Aldo Agroppi
- Brazil Amauri
- Italy Giancarlo Antognoni
- Italy Mario Balotelli
- Italy Franco Baresi
- Italy Roberto Baronio
- Argentina Gabriel Batistuta
- Italy Sergio Battistini
- Italy Nicola Berti
- Italy Roberto Bettega
- Italy Roberto Boninsegna
- Italy Ivano Bordon
- Italy Sergio Campana
- Italy Luciano Chiarugi
- Italy Fulvio Collovati
- Italy Roberto Cravero
- Italy Vincenzo D' Amico
- Italy Giuseppe Damiani
- Italy Alessandro Del Piero
- Italy Riccardo Ferri
- Italy Mario Frustalupi
- Italy Giuseppe Furino
- Italy Diego Fuser
- Italy Guglielmo Gabetto
- Italy Giuseppe Galderisi
- Italy Giuseppe Giannini
- Italy Sergio Gori
- Italy Gianluigi Lentini
- Italy Aldo Maldera
- Italy Giuseppe Marchioro
- Italy Sandro Mazzola
- Italy Bruno Mora
- Italy Domenico Morfeo
- Italy Roberto Muzzi
- Gabriele Oriali Italy
- Italy Andrea Pirlo
- Italy Paolino Pulici
- Italy Gianni Rivera
- Italy Sandro Salvadore
- Italy Alessio Tacchinardi
- Italy Francesco Totti
- Italy Sandro Tovalieri
- Italy Giovanni Trapattoni
- Slovakia Jozef Vengloš