1898 - Once upon a time football - I ^ part

Abstract

So we start heading "ran the year ...." Given the amount of topics we have preferred to divide each event into two parts, so below is received by the early part of 1898.

Born football in Italy

One could not not start with what is the first official football league in Italy recorded in the annals of the history of the sport. Benpensanti I could believe that everything began to pump magna but it would be a gross error. In fact no one from there first had to believe that you were to mark an entire era, all on tiptoe. In the spring of 1898, was in May, in Turin that a handful of guys with a football under your arm so much enthusiasm and carelessness met on the outskirts, in a clay soil in exchange for "four kicks" between friends. No one, as said earlier, could even remotely imagine that was about to start the first ever football championship played in Italy. And how could it be otherwise? Besides the sport in the "beautiful country" was completely unknown, had it not been for the British immigrants who worked in the industries of our country or you simply pull in more ports for purely commercial purposes. Indeed, the modern football was born in England, around the second half of the nineteenth century, despite readings from historians have reports of rudimentary sports, like football, since ancient times.

The sport of the people

Football in Italy was an anonymous sport. Our country in those years devoted pages of most major newspapers only the fencing and gymnastics regarded as noble sport temprano the body and mind. So it is the most noble and important associations of gymnastics to make room for this sport "novice", integrating company dedicated to the practice within their books. Everything is then in the hands of the British; rest of the only two regions where there are football events are the Liguria and Piedmont, as if only the two regions, in order'800, the British influence. It is precisely at the British base in an evening of the distant September 1892 (Thursday, 7 to be precise), the first club "Italian" football team in history had known: the Genoa Cricket and Football Club, whose father was the founder Consul Charles Alfred Payton. Initially the main concern was to find a field where play. It optò, not without difficulty, for the plain of Ponte Carrega. We agree with the biggest club British, German and Swiss combination of the practice of football as the most "noble" Cricket. In fact, the newest location found with difficulty because the British were seen as a sport "of the people" and the sport in England were charged solely by the noble class.

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In the second part: cronostoria, numbers and curiosity of the first Italian football championship.