Team Italy

The motherland of fistball will also participate in the MWC 2023.

It was the biggest World Cup success since 1972: 47 years after finishing fifth at the World Championships in Schweinfurt, Italy finished fifth again in Winterthur, underlining that they are one of the world’s top nations.

The Squadra Azzura also qualified for the World Games in the USA, where – 25 years after their last participation (1997, Finland) – they confirmed their fifth place. A large part of the team has been playing at the top international level for more than a decade, and at last year’s European Championships at home (4th place), the team made increasing use of its own young players, who are now to be developed into regular players in the team of German coach Jörg Ramel around top attacker Armin Runer.

The latest rankings

2019 (Switzerland) 5th place
2015 (Argentina) 7th place
2011 (Austria) 7th place
2007 (Germany) 7th place

In 2022, Italy participated in the World Games again after 25 years of abstinence.

1 Jakob Riegler
2 Matthias Spornberger
5 Maximilian Deutsch
7 Dennis Thalmann
8 Fabian Obexer
9 Armin Runer
10 Simon Prudenziati
11 Florin Unterkofler
77 Moritz Menz
99 Valentin Schwarz

The players

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