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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quyB8PMTD3o If the boys wanna fight you better let 'em! Spread the word around- Calcio Storico season is here and all four teams are back this year! Last year the semis started with the Reds playing and winning a "friendly" game against a combined Green and White team as the Blues were suspended last year for assaulting officials in 2017 (quick reminder "After the Azzurri took a shocking early lead poo poo hit the fan after a series of "controversial" reffing expulsions. The blues felt hard done by these decisions against them and logically proceeded to assault multiple officials causing the police to storm the field and end the game. The game was suspended, the blues were kicked out of the tournament and the whites were moved on into the final."The game ended 18 minutes in with blue leading white 2.5 - 0.)  Afterwards the Verdi cruised to an convincing win against the Bianchi to face the Reds in the final. Unfortunately many of the key Green players were decimated early on in the final and the Reds handed the Greens a huge defeat (final score 10.5 to 4). What will happen this year? Will the Whites regain their dominance, will the Greens finally win it for the first time since I've been watching this contest (no), will the Reds be unrepentant scumbags (yes), Will the Blues be on their best behavior? I don't know what will happen but what I do know is that I can't wait to watch these roided up Italian men punch each other in a sandy piazza What is Calcio Storico? Basically this     More Precisely Calcio fiorentino (also known as calcio storico "historic football") is an early form of football that originated in 16th century Italy. Once widely played, the sport is thought to have originated in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. Interest in Calcio waned in the early 17th century. However in 1930 it was reorganized as a game in Kingdom of Italy. Today, three matches are played each year in Piazza Santa Croce in Florence in the 3rd week of June. A team from each quartiere of the city is represented:  Santa Croce / Azzurri (Blues) Unathletic out of shape wastemen who are terrible at offense but through their sheer determination and willingness to sacrfice their bodies are able to give any team a struggle. Oh and whiners and spoil sports. A disgrace  Santa Maria Novella / Rossi (Reds) Roided up cheaters. They are slightly better at scoring than the azzurri but they prefer to toss people out of the arena and waste the clock. They gas 1/3rd the way through every match. Last year's champions  (pic from Lone Goat's trip) Santo Spirito / Bianchi (Whites) A dynasty momentarily derailed. A complete team with some of the best offensive players in the game. Top down leadership and success in their veins.  San Giovanni / Verdi (Greens) An all around solid team with offensive flair and long range sharpshooters. They are not afraid to get physical. They are a team with illustrious history and a deep respect for the Calcio tradition.  After playing each other in two opening games, the two winners go onto the final which occurs each year on June 24th. Rules The modern version of calcio allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking but sucker punches and kicks to the head are banned. The game is played on a field of sand with a narrow slit constituting the goal, running the width of each end. Each teams comprises 27 players who are allowed to use both feet and hands to pass and control the ball. Goals (or cacce) are scored by throwing the ball over into the netting at the end of the field. There is a main referee, six linesmen and a field master. Each match is played out for 50 minutes with the winner being the team with the most goals scored. What essentially happens is the two teams line up and beat on each other. The team with the ball tries to preoccupy the other team by beating them down or taking them down to the point where a gap is created and the ball runner can go on a run towards goal. The goal is narrow and missing a shot on goal gives the opponents .5 points. Scoring a goal nets the shooting team 1 pt. Because of the penalty for missing, players try to get fairly close before shooting. When it comes to tackling a ball carrier anything goes including kicking his legs out from under him. That's basically the rules but in actuality what happens is a big clusterfuck wherein a bunch of referees and assistants dressed like renaissance clowns run around calling things as they see fit.  (Respect this man's authority) Players will break rules if they feel like they can get away with it and justice is arbitrarily dished out. However, players can and frequently do, get ejected for breaking the rules. This usually occurs after the most ferocious of hand gesturing. There seems to be a gentleman's agreement not to kick eachother's asses too bad, but I honestly have no real idea and people do get their rear end kicked. The winners get a year of bragging rights. When to watch Semi-final Rossi vs Verdi - 6/15/ 12:30 pm est Semi-final Bianchi vs Azurri - 6/16/ 12:30 pm est Final TBA 6/24 12:30 pm est Where to watch The local Florentine channel that airs the games has a convenient HD web broadcast. http://www.rtv38.com/wordpress/ (official website is working again this year) be wary of when you click on this because they air ads for strip clubs at night Why you should watch Italian amateur striking  Italian amateur grappling  More importantly- It's legitimately crazy, bizarre and entertaining. Check this poo poo out of you want A semi final from 2015. Probably the best game that year. End to end stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EioSnjSjq00 2017's amazing final https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSQ9KXh4NXw A short/decent primer piece by Vice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPWcLmWvD0 A short documentary focusing on the lead up to the game. Not the greatest, but interesting none the less. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XctCNiDICXo
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Past yearly threads. 2018 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3859506 2017 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3822901 2016 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3779401 2015 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3725616 Highlights Offense      Defense   Tackling    Grappling   Striking   Expulsions  Friendship  Seltzer fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jun 12, 2019 |
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Dr. Abysmal posted:I feel like I usually see them leading a cow around during the pre-game portion where there's two thousand dudes wandering the field with a drum beat in the background. The cow is only symbolic now.
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Everyone remember to take off work on the 24th its a monday this year unfortunately.
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Highlight section has been updated. Hopefully I'll be able to .gif a bit this year after missing last year.
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CommonShore posted:From what I'm seeing here I'm getting serious cricket vibes in which there are only like 5 rules in the actual game but then there's a gigantic laundry list of things that are technically not against the rules but which the sport's internal decorum has like 40 pages of poo poo which will cause a riot. CommonShore posted:So... in that gif above buddy is tapping to a strangle... what happens then? Is he eliminated? Does his opponent even need to let him go? This sums up the fighting part the best imo quote:there seems to be a gentleman's agreement not to kick eachother's asses too bad, but I honestly have no real idea and people do get their rear end kicked. Seltzer fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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I've got some bad news for fellow Verdi fans. I was leafing through the gameday program from the final from last year that lonegoat graciously sent me along with a Rossi bracelet and Verdi t shirt and saw a troubling trend.  Verdi has only won the official tournament once in it's history ffs (once in the unofficial time period as well). That is despite being, by my count, in 11 finals...... The 96 victory was probably during the peak Lapi years which makes sense. quote:19 - Azzurri di Santa Croce I'm pretty sure I saw this list years ago but forgot about it. Never gonna give up hope though. Forza Verdi
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Verdi Fan Zone As a life long Verdi fan I welcome all well intentioned newcomers to our tent. Did you know the Greens won the first game of the modern reintroduction of Calcio Storico played in 1930? That's right they did. The Greens are a proud team with a storied history. They have fought to keep the Calcio tradition as pure as possible, protesting occasional attempts to soften the game. They are moral champions that embody the spirit of the sport. Let's take a look at some golden age footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb4ENoLLLj8 Let the feelings of nostalgia wash over you. (very good video ^) Let's also pay respect to past great Verdi great Gianluca Lapi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLbPy-cgGa0 Verdi coach pre game speech https://streamable.com/v2u9m Tomorrow's match preview with interviews, any snippets of translation are welcome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaiE5SqR52c
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The traditional 45 mins of bad interviews and long shots of people smoking on their balconies/people slowly filing in has begun e- 
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rare Magic card l00k posted:where can i watch this, the greatest of sporting events http://www.rtv38.com/wordpress/
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The FB feed is ahead yea. Scroll reader has appeared
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Almost time, everybody waiting desperately for the scroll reader to gently caress off.
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first 15 mins are always slow, Tall beard green guy looking like a key player
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Verdi's manager needs to be canned. He let the guys down. I'm in full meltdown mode. I hope Bianchi creams these red clowns.
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RTV site is a little slow today, the facebook link always works good as back up https://www.facebook.com/pg/rtv38/videos/?ref=page_internal
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Scroll reader is out we're starting soon.
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Stretcher out in under 5 minutes
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canepazzo posted:Bianchi already down to 25 Blue had 1 stretchered tho
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Blue guy getting sucker punched before getting expelled lol
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3 white expelled 1 blue expelled one injury
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Some seriously good pressure on the shooter there lol
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23 v 24 now, cmon bianchi
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Bianchi is still whipping rear end and its 23 23 now. CMON
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Azzurri took their year off to do roids They have a lot of fat guys on the front line
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Holy poo poo that run was insane. Credit to blue wow
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This is the tie game reset i think?
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