 The national colours of Italy are green, white, and red, collectively known in Italian as "il tricolore" (the tricolour).The three Italian national colors appeared for the first time in Genoa on August 21, 1789 on the cockade of Italy shortly after the outbreak of the French Revolution.In sport in Italy, savoy azure has been used or adopted as the colour for many national teams, the first being the men's football team in 1910.