a mix between football and rugby - with a good dose of bare-knuckle boxing added to the mix -
Calcio Storico is not a game for those who flinch at the site of blood.
Players still dress in authentic period costume and parade to the Piazza through the historic centre of Florence where they are introduced to the spectators and the Seigniory -
usually an important guest of the city. It's really CUTE.. and so Haute Couture.. haha..
Then the game begins... (Pritt.. Prit...)
There are two teams each made up of 27 combatants. The playing field is a giant sand pit with a goal running the width of each end. There is a main referee, six linesmen and a field master who intervenes in the very likely event of fisticuffs. Each game is played out for 50 hard fought minutes with the winner being the team that has amassed the most points or 'cacce'.
Oh dear ... Seems to me if asked to join this game I would not have come... Really scary.
But, you can see that our culture and Italy it's very a different. :)
and this is the video:
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