Italy, 1994 — The Weight of Blue
The Rose Bowl, Pasadena.
The heat was relentless. The match was goalless. One hundred and twenty minutes had drained every ounce of strength from twenty-two players who had already given everything.
When the final penalty sailed over the crossbar, there was no explosion, no drama in motion. Just a man standing still, hands on hips, eyes lowered to the grass.
Italy’s blue shirt has always carried meaning. It is not merely a color, but a lineage — worn by legends, stitched with pride, heavy with expectation. That night, the number ten bore all of it alone.
That shirt did not record a goal.
It recorded a moment.
For Italian fans, it became a symbol of tragedy and beauty intertwined. The kind of memory that hurts precisely because it mattered so much. The fabric did not change, but its meaning did. From that night on, the blue shirt was no longer only about triumph — it was about courage, responsibility, and the unbearable thin line between glory and heartbreak.
To wear it is to remember that football does not always reward the brave.
Sometimes, it simply remembers them.
Italy 1994 Home Jersey
Size Guidance (Retro Jersey)
Size Chest (in) Length (in) Rec. Height (ft/in) Rec. Weight (lb) S 39 28 65–67 121–132 M 41 28 67–69 132–154 L 43 29 69–71 154–176 XL 44 30 71–75 176–198 XXL 46 31 75–79 198–220 Note: All sizes are for reference only. Manual measurement may result in an error of ±1 inch.
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FIFA World Cup squad
1994 FIFA World Cup squad
No. Player Club 1 Gianluca Pagliuca Sampdoria 2 Luigi Apolloni Parma 3 Antonio Benarrivo Parma 4 Alessandro Costacurta Milan 5 Paolo Maldini Milan 6 Franco Baresi (c) Milan 7 Lorenzo Minotti Parma 8 Roberto Mussi Torino 9 Mauro Tassotti Milan 10 Roberto Baggio Juventus 11 Demetrio Albertini Milan 12 Luca Marchegiani Lazio 13 Dino Baggio Juventus 14 Nicola Berti Inter Milan 15 Antonio Conte Juventus 16 Roberto Donadoni Milan 17 Alberigo Evani Sampdoria 18 Pierluigi Casiraghi Lazio 19 Daniele Massaro Milan 20 Giuseppe Signori Lazio 21 Gianfranco Zola Parma 22 Luca Bucci Parma
































