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Monday, June 12. 2017

Get your tickets now!

Calcio Storico is June 24th, in Florence.


A friend reports that it is essentially a brawl. Craziest sport I've ever seen. 500 year tradition. Apparently popes used to participate in 1600s. Ended with riot police taking the field and suspending the game after ejected players refused to leave. The crowd was just as tattooed and menacing as the players.

Posted by Gwynnie at 16:54 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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For those interested to know, calcio storico translates as "historic football/soccer".
#1 JJM on 2017-06-12 17:08 (Reply)
Also, as befits a proper Italian event, 24 June was not picked out of a hat: it's the Feast of St John The Baptist.

(Ah, the link explains more - should have read it first).
#2 JJM on 2017-06-12 17:11 (Reply)
I had tickets in 1997. It is truly the origin of modern football, and far better, perhaps because of the mayhem instead of the boring maybe few yards of NFL, and the event is preceded by a grand parade of the clubs in medieval clothing. The crowd is also quite the show, Not to be missed. If TV carried it here, NFL would be over, just as mixed martial arts boxing has eclipsed old-fashioned boxing.
#3 Bruce Kesler on 2017-06-12 23:02 (Reply)

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