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The Football Fiorentino

Il Calcio Storico in Santa Croce
La finale si svolge sempre
il 24 giugno- Patrono di Firenze
San Giovanni

Secondo antiche testimonianze "il gioco del calcio" è nato sulla riva dell'arno e, soltanto dopo secoli, è trasmigrato su quella del Tamigi, dove mutato il nome in Foot - ball , gioco della palla a piede, ed affinate le regole, ha conseguito la fama , oggi, universalmente recognized.
Football Fiorentino was not just one of many ways to entertain the youth. The competition had harsh and manly character: brawls, fights tight and continuous combat for the possession of the ball the spirit and temper developed the physique of the players. The football was played in Florence in a daily tank. playing football young people, the adults during a business trip or at local parties, and even the nobles contested matches organized.
Every year in June for St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of the city, organize a revival the game was born in Florence and closely linked with the history and culture of the city.
The parade consists of 550 multi-colored set, with the livery of kicking, the sixteenth uniforms of the Florentine nobles, chosen from among the descendants of historic towns, and infantry, with arms and flags of the time, brings us back as if by magic, the atmosphere of the Renaissance .

Everything is as it was then. costumes, weapons, armor, banners, music and commands. When the game starts, immediately turned on the 54 kicking of team spirit, intertwined threads of dense passages, he took the ball flying, fights, blatant tackles and scrums, creating live close to a game.

Each "hunt" (goal) scored, the shot of culverins establishes the point and only then, the field is reversed. The players of the team that defined, advancing with a smile and the flag of his district explained to the wind, the vanquished with a straight face and teaches low and wrapped up for auction.

Finally, after fifty minutes, the winner receives training in a premium white calf, withdrawal from kicking. No prize money is paid to the kicking. There is nothing mercenary in these battles just to win the color of their neighborhood.

only payment is the calf, or better, a quantity of "steak" ad essa equivalente.

Dopo la consegna dell'ambito premio, il corteo ricompone lo schieramento iniziale: gli squilli di tromba ed il rullare dei tamburi si dissolvono cadenzando il rutilante gioco dei vessilli, magistralmente giostrati dai Bandierai degli Uffizi.

Questo è il Calcio Storico Fiorentino che vive e si svolge nell'agonismo di quartiere e con fiorentinissimo spirito.