1901 - The Tricolore to the Devils - part ^

Abstract

The fourth championship football team history does not record big changes, teams are always five, so absent will be the Football Club Torinese, who meet again in subsequent years, and will make his appearance in the final stages of the tournament, the U. S. Mediolanum second team of Milan contenderà access to subsequent phases of the Milan Kilpin, which will definitively in history for having broken the hegemony of Grifone.

La Belle Epoque

We are still far from the social Foot-ball is in England. In earth British football is basically sport of the people, classes of medium to low contend that all'Upper Class spheres of national interest. In Italy, football is still the noble sport, a sport for a few both for those who practice that for fans intent to follow the first match agonistici. Moreover, as shown by chronicles of the time, the football players could afford to enter the field with clothes used also for the exits all day, could sgualcirli, strapparseli off, sporcarli mud without having the slightest problem to obtain others. Second, there were the difficulties of the working class who could barely afford one dressed as a bear wearing every day not just to show their nakedness. It was not unusual to see lots of foot-ball where viewers flocked clothes with high fashion: the ladies in long dress and ostrich feathers, the Lords in bombetta and papillon, as required la Belle Epoque's early twentieth century. Football in Italy, despite the absence of rules, of training and sponsors, was surrounded by this type of interest but the time is not tarderanno to change soon also involving classes medium-low. On the other hand there were the athletes who do not disdegnavano clothes purposes even for the harsh battles that were meeting during tournaments foot-ball. He used to see them with his hat on his head, neck sbottonata shirt, long trousers until knee brace coupled with whom there is not even disdegnava tie, to make their beautiful presence.

The Participants

As already said this year saw the championship against five teams: the Piedmont area Juventus met veterans of Gymnastics Turin, while the Lombard area saw the clash between Milan and neo-participants of Mediolanum. For the Genoa, the third consecutive time holder of the title, had to wait a team name that would encounter in Finalissima Ponte Carrega, given the opportunity to play one match as the previous year, as samples office. The championship was held from April 14 to May 5 and for the first time was introduced the concept of contemporaneity of a sporting event. In fact, in the eliminatory phase, the clash Gymnastics Turin-Juventus and the match between Milan and Mediolanum, but played in different fields, were played on the same day that coincided with the opening of the games: April 14. The chronicles of tend not to give prominence to this situation, probably because it was a case and not deliberately chose to proceed in this direction or the choice was not determined by a matter of regularity in the conduct of matches, but for pure comfort . The two matches were played, respectively, in the usual field of Piazza arms in Turin for the Piedmont area and Trotter (Civic Arena), Piazza Doria in Milan, Lombardy for the area. The final, which would have seen the holder of the title clash with the winner of a semifinal, which disputò in Turin on April 28, was held in the mythical Camp Ponte Carrega, Ligurian on earth, just on May 5 that corrispose with the end of tournament. The main innovation thus resided in the presence of this batch of half (the semifinal) before the final which was to see against the winners (area of Piedmont and Lombardy) eliminatory phase.