The pair paid a visit to the Juventus team manager, who is being treated in a Turin hospital following a suicide attempt, after celebrating the Azzurri's victory at a huge party at Rome's Circus Maximus on Monday night.

They were later mobbed by hundreds of supporters as they left Le Molinette hospital and had difficulty reaching their car.

Pessotto, 35, jumped from his office window on June 27 after complaining to his wife he was struggling to adapt to the team manager's role since retiring as a player in May.

Doctors said his condition improved slightly on Sunday after ruling he should not watch the television broacast of the Italy-France final because it would be too tiring.

Zambrotta visited his friend, who was capped 22 times for Italy, in intensive care just days before scoring the opening goal in Italy's 3-0 quarter-final win over Ukraine in the World Cup.