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Compared to today's professional for seemingly so little can be
sports, where it seems overpaid contradictory to many who have long
players and coaches are on a constant left behind active participation in
merry-go-round of teams and cities, sporting activity. It is in
from one season to the next this understanding the underpinnings of
seems strange. Instead, the players of this game, and the sacrifice of the
calcio storico are proud to represent individuals, that allows the onlooker
their teams, their section of the city, to be drawn a little closer to
willing to risk grave injury, for no comprehend this game's visceral
compensation. Such is the attachment nature. Not that my wife would let
to the sport, its history, and their me play it, but at least, she should be
city, that compensation is moot. glad that I would not be allowed to
play calcio storico because it is only
Watching the story on a recent
played in Florence, and one can only
Netflix special, really brought to the
play if they are born in one of the
fore the notion uttered by my mate.
four neighbourhoods. So here is to
For the outsider, it is nigh impossible
the warriors of the sporting world.
to register this sort of deviance. This
To all the weekend warriors that
preoccupation of sports as an integral
continue to
part of anyone's life in today's world
