Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan ya ƙi shiga gasar cin kofin duniya ta farko (1930, a Uruguay) kungiyar Italiya ta lashe gasar biyu a jere a shekarar 1934
da 1938, a karkashin jagorancin kocin Vittorio Pozzo da wasan kwaikwayon Giuseppe Meazza, wanda wasu ke ganin daya daga cikin 'yan wasan kwallon kafa na Italiya mafi kyau a kowane lokaci. Italiya ta karbi bakuncin gasar cin kofin duniya ta 1934, kuma ta buga wasan farko a gasar cin kofin duniya a wasan da ta yi nasara a kan Amurka da 7-1. Italiya ta doke Czechoslovakia 2<unk>1 a cikin karin lokaci a wasan karshe a Rome, tare da burin Raimundo Orsi da Angelo Schiavio don cimma nasarar cin kofin duniya na farko a 1934. Sun sami taken su na biyu a 1938 a cikin shan kashi 4 zuwa 2 na Hungary, tare da kwallaye biyu daga Gino Colaussi da kwallaye biyu daga Silvio Piola a gasar cin kofin duniya da ta biyo baya. Ana jita-jita, kafin wasan karshe na 1938 Firayim Ministan Italiya Benito Mussolini ya aika da sakon waya ga ƙungiyar, yana cewa "Vincere o morire!" (a zahiri an fassara shi da "Samun nasara ko mutuwa!"). Koyaya, babu wani rikodin da ya rage na irin wannan sakon waya, kuma dan wasan gasar cin kofin duniya Pietro Rava ya ce, lokacin da aka yi hira da shi, "A'a, a'a, a'a, ba gaskiya bane. Ya aika da sakon waya yana fatan mu da kyau, amma babu 'cin nasara ko mutuwa'. "