Italy By: Jamee Steele Sports they play in Italy Football as they call soccer. Have won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Another one of a major sport in Italy is volleybal l Italy also has a basketbal l team.Italy has won 2 Gold medals, 4 Silver medals and 4 Bronze medals Italy’s relIgIon. •Italy is united linguistically and religiously although it is diverse culturally.Roman Catholicism is the majority religion with 85 percent of nativeborn citizens Catholicism is by far the largest religious group in Italy. Italy culture Italy did not exist as a country until the country's unification in 1861. Elements which are famous of the Italian are its opera & music. its iconic gastronomymy and food,which is commonly regarded amongst the most popular in the world Italy, over the centuries, has given birth to a great number of polymaths, geniuses and notable people, such as Julius Caesar, Petrarch, Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Galileo Galilei, Rossini Italy's symbol. •Italy’s symbol Is a descrIptIon of the emblem of the Italian Republic. The white star with a red border in a cogwheel surrounded by olive and oak branches, and the cornu which is known as the Italian horn. Italy's Population Italy’s populatIon Is 58,145,320 people. From the middle age of the 19th century Italy was just a geographical region that consisted of several small states. The kingdom of Italy was created in 1861.