Azzurri left-back Fabio Grosso swapped Inter Milan for Lyon on Monday, exactly a year after his penalty sealed Italy's World Cup Final win over France.
The 7.5-million-euro deal will tie the 29-year-old to Lyon for four seasons, the French champions announced.
Grosso has 25 Italy caps and has scored 2 international goals.
He was one of the Azzurri's biggest World Cup heroes.
He won the penalty - converted by Francesco Totti - that took Italy past Australia in the first knockout stage game and scored the extra-time goal that set the Azzurri on the way to a 2-0 win over hosts Germany in the semi-final.
Grosso also nailed the final spot-kick in the Berlin final shoot-out against France which gave Italy their fourth World Cup.
He moved to Inter from Palermo last summer, but was unable to maintain the form he displayed at Germany 2006 and lost his starting slot in the Serie A-winning team.
Lyon have bought him to replace France full-back Eric Abidal, who has joined Barcelona.
UEFA Cup winners Sevilla announced Monday that they have signed Morgan De Sanctis, after the Italy goalkeeper used Article 17 of the FIFA code to free himself from his contract with Udinese.
The 30-year-old is the first Italian to use Article 17 and only the second player in the world to do so, following the precedent Scottish defender Andrew Webster set last season to move from Hearts to Wigan.
Article 17 rules that players can relinquish their contracts if they have served three years of it, or two years if they are over 28, as in De Sanctis' case.
Sevilla, who also won the Spanish Cup last season, will now have to pay a fee that will be decided by FIFA.
De Sanctis has two Italy caps.
He had played for Udinese for eight seasons and is the club's longest-serving goalkeeper, with 194 league appearances.
His contract with the northern Italian club ran until 2010.
Fabrizio Miccoli said on Monday that he wants to win back his place in the Italian national team with new club Palermo.
Juventus sold the 28-year-old striker, who scored two goals in 10 Azzurri games in 2003 and 2004, to the Sicilian club for 4.3 million euros.
He is returning to Serie A after a successful two-year loan spell in Portugal with Benfica.
"I chose Palermo because I consider it a big club that can help me revive my career," Miccoli said.
"One of my goals for next season is to return to the national team. If the coach (Roberto Donadoni) feels that I deserve the Azzurri shirt, I'll be happy to wear it".
Italy's World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi has said he does not think the nation has savoured his side's triumph to the full.
"We have not enjoyed it," he told Sport Week magazine.
Lippi also said that "more than 10 clubs" have tried to hire him since he quit as Italy coach.
But he stressed that he is happy to stay away from the soccer bench for the time being.
Lippi's son Davide is fighting criminal charges over his involvement with the GEA World players' agency. The coach is expected to stay on the sidelines until the affair is resolved.
