 The Italian national football team has won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, and 2006), trailing only Brazil (with 5) and level with Germany (with 4).Serie A clubs have seen success in the Champions League (formerly the European Cup), the premier European club competition, winning it twelve times.The Italian word for soccer is "", "kick", taken from the name of Italy's traditional football games, as opposed to being adapted from the English name "football" or "soccer", as in most other languages.