Lotto Sport Italia is an Italian sports apparel manufacturer. Its products are now distributed in more than 60 countries.

Lotto was established in 1973 by the Caberlotto family (who were the proprietors of the football team Treviso) in Montebelluna, northern Italy, the world centre of footwear manufacturing. In June 1973, Lotto made its debut as a sports footwear manufacturer. Tennis shoes signaled the beginning of production, followed by models for basketball, volleyball, athletics and football.

Sports clothing was the company's next venture. In the first 10 years, Lotto focused on the Italian market and became a product leader in tennis. During its first decade, corporate strategy concentrated on making tennis footwear and clothing, and early on sponsored big names from the professional tennis circuit (Martina Navratilova, Boris Becker, Thomas Muster, Andrea Gaudenzi), a strategy that brought the early victories at Wimbledon, the US Open and Roland Garros.

In the 80s Lotto moved on to broaden its business base by competing among the then small group of manufacturers of football boots and clothing. Lotto began to create its first football boot models and signed major collaboration agreements with internationally renowned players and teams. Tennis players John Newcombe, Andrés Gómez and José Luis Clerc wore the brand's tennis products.

Federico Balzaretti (born 6 December 1981 in Turin, Piedmont) is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a left back for Serie A club Palermo and Italy national football team.

Federico Balzaretti's playing career started at the age of 6 in the Torino youth system, debuting for the granata in season 2002–03. After a couple of seasons on loan to Varese and Siena, he was heavily involved in Torino's 2004–05 Serie B campaign for promotion, which brought the team to the Serie A.

However, as Torino disbanded right after that promotion, Balzaretti was released in a free transfer, and was signed by city arch-rivals Juventus. In 2005–06 he was part of the first team for the bianconeri, often playing as regular under orders of coach Fabio Capello, and finally winning the Serie A league.

His first ever senior goal game on 17 February 2007, in Serie B, as Juventus beat Crotone 5–0. He was sold to Fiorentina on July 2007, but failed to adjust with the viola as he made only six appearances in the first half of the Serie A 2007-08, and was subsequently signed by Palermo in a permanent move during the January transfer market. At Palermo, he took the #42 jersey as a homage to his father, who was born in 1942; in his tenure with the Sicilian side, he immediately established himself as a mainstay, playing regularly for the rosanero also in the following seasons and establishing as one of the most praised Italian left backs.