Euro 2020: Azzurri's victory over England caps Italian football's "renaissance"

You have to go back all the way to September 10, 2018 for last time the Italian national team lost a game of football.

At the time, that 1-0 Nations League group stage defeat by Portugal certainly wouldn't have felt like a turning point in the Azzurri's history, but it sparked what is now a 34-game unbeaten run, just one behind the all-time international record jointly held by Brazil and Spain. The man that has been at the helm for these three remarkable years is Roberto Mancini, who took over Italy's head coach role after it failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, only the second time that had happened in the nation's history.