List of Italy international footballers born outside Italy

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This is a list of Italy international footballers who were born outside Italy.

List of players

Player	Caps	Years active	Nation of birth
Eugenio Mosso	1	1914	Argentina
Emilio Badini	2	1920	Argentina
Cesare Lovati	6	1920–1921	Argentina
Félix Romano	5	1921–1924	Argentina
Giovanni Moscardini	9	1921–1925	Scotland
Julio Libonatti	18	1926–1931	Argentina
Attila Sallustro	2	1929–1932	Paraguay
Raimundo Orsi	35	1929–1935	Argentina
Raffaele Sansone	3	1932	Uruguay
Francisco Fedullo	2	1932–1933	Uruguay
Anfilogino Guarisi	6	1932–1934	Brazil
Luis Monti	18	1932–1936	Argentina
Attilio Demaría	13	1932–1940	Argentina
Enrique Guaita	10	1934–1935	Argentina
Otávio Fantoni	1	1934	Brazil
Roberto Porta	1	1935	Uruguay
Alejandro Scopelli	1	1935	Argentina
Ricardo Faccio	5	1935–1936	Uruguay
Ernesto Mascheroni	2	1935–1936	Uruguay
Michele Andreolo	26	1936–1942	Uruguay
Ettore Puricelli	1	1939	Uruguay
Rinaldo Martino	1	1949	Argentina
Eduardo Ricagni	3	1953–1955	Argentina
Juan Alberto Schiaffino	4	1954–1958	Uruguay
Eddie Firmani	3	1956–1958	South Africa
Miguel Montuori	12	1956–1960	Argentina
Bruno Pesaola	1	1957	Argentina
Alcides Ghiggia	5	1957–1959	Uruguay
Dino da Costa	1	1958	Brazil
Francisco Lojacono	8	1959–1962	Argentina
Antonio Angelillo	2	1960–1962	Argentina
Omar Sívori	9	1961–1962	Argentina
José Altafini	6	1961–1962	Brazil
Humberto Maschio	4	1962	Argentina
Angelo Sormani	7	1962–1963	Brazil
Giuseppe Wilson	3	1974	England
Claudio Gentile	71	1975–1984	Libya
Roberto Di Matteo	34	1994–1998	Switzerland
Matteo Ferrari	11	2002–2004	Algeria
Simone Perrotta	48	2002–2009	England
Mauro Camoranesi	55	2003–2010	Argentina
Giuseppe Rossi	30	2008–2014	United States
Amauri	1	2010	Brazil
Cristian Ledesma	1	2010	Argentina
Dani Osvaldo	14	2011–2014	Argentina
Thiago Motta	30	2011–2016	Brazil
Ezequiel Schelotto	1	2012	Argentina
Roberto Soriano	9	2014–present	Germany
Gabriel Paletta	3	2014	Argentina
Éder	26	2015–2017	Brazil
Nicola Sansone	3	2015–present	Germany
Franco Vázquez	2	2015	Argentina
Jorginho	54	2016–present	Brazil
Emerson	29	2018–present	Brazil
Vincenzo Grifo	9	2018–present	Germany
Rafael Tolói	14	2021–present	Brazil
João Pedro	1	2022–present	Brazil
Luiz Felipe	1	2022–present	Brazil
Mateo Retegui	8	2023–present	Argentina

List by country of birth

Country	Total
Argentina	25
Brazil	13
Uruguay	9
Germany	3
England	2
Algeria	1
Libya	1
Paraguay	1
Scotland	1
South Africa	1
Switzerland	1
United States	1

References

v t e Italy national football team
General	Italian Football Federation History Managers Captains Kits
Venues	Various home venues around Italy Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano (training)
Statistics	All-time record Records and statistics World Cup record European Championship record Hat-tricks
Goals	Gigi Riva
Results	1910–1929 1930–1949 1950–1969 1970–89 1990–2009 2010–present Unofficial matches
Players	All-time players World Cup and European Championship squads Born outside Italy Other categories
World Cups	Summary 1934 1938 1950 1954 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014
European Championships	Summary 1968 1972 1980 1988 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Other tournaments	UEFA Nations League FIFA Confederations Cup The Olympics Central European International Cup Mundialito U.S. Cup 1976 U.S.A. Bicentennial Cup Tournament 1985 Ciudad de México Cup Tournament
Rivalries	Brazil France Germany Spain
Culture	Noted matches Catenaccio Zona mista Museo del Calcio
Contribution by club	AC Milan Internazionale Juventus Nazio-Juve Blocco-Juve
Other FIGC teams	B team C teams Olympic team Military team University team U23 team U21 team U21 B team U20 team U19 team U18 team U17 team U16 team U15 team Women WU-23 team WU-19 team WU-17 team Futsal Beach soccer

Lists of international association football players
- men's
- women's

Capped for two teams

UEFA
European

Men's	Albania 25+ caps 1–24 caps born outside Andorra Armenia Austria 25+ caps 1–24 caps Azerbaijan Belgium 20+ caps 5–20 caps 1–4 caps Bosnia and Herzegovina born outside Croatia born outside Czech Republic Denmark 25+ caps 1–24 caps England 10+ caps 4–9 caps 2–3 caps 1 cap born outside Capped while at lower division club Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany born outside Gibraltar Greece Hungary born outside Iceland Israel Italy born outside Kosovo born outside Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands born outside Northern Ireland North Macedonia Norway 25+ caps 10–24 caps 2–9 caps 1 cap Poland Portugal born outside Republic of Ireland born outside Romania Russia born outside San Marino Scotland 10+ caps 4–9 caps 2–3 caps 1 cap born outside Serbia born outside Slovakia Slovenia Spain born outside Sweden born outside Switzerland born outside Turkey Ukraine born outside Wales born outside
Women's	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia France Germany Israel Kosovo Luxembourg Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Scotland Spain Turkey
Defunct	East Germany Saarland Yugoslavia
Unofficial	Basque Country Catalonia Galicia Silesia

CONMEBOL
South American

Men's	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile born outside Colombia Peru Uruguay
Women's	Brazil

CONCACAF
North American

Men's	Aruba Canada Costa Rica Mexico Panama Turks and Caicos Islands United States born outside
Women's	Bermuda Canada Guatemala El Salvador Guyana Mexico Nicaragua Panama United States

CAF
African

Men's	Algeria born outside Angola Chad Kenya South Africa Tunisia
Women's	Botswana DR Congo Ghana Ivory Coast Kenya Morocco Nigeria South Africa Tunisia

AFC
Asian

Men's	Australia born outside Bahrain China naturalized India born outside Indonesia born outside Iran Iraq Japan Lebanon born outside Malaysia born outside Palestine born outside Philippines born outside Qatar born outside Singapore born outside Thailand born outside Syria Vietnam born outside
Women's	Australia born outside Hong Kong Indonesia Iran Japan Jordan Lebanon born outside Myanmar Pakistan Philippines born outside Saudi Arabia Tajikistan Uzbekistan

OFC
Oceanian

Men's	American Samoa Cook Islands Fiji Kiribati New Caledonia New Zealand born outside Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu
Women's	American Samoa New Zealand

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