My god, I'd play this every day if I could. I am not competitive or aggressively violent, but the physical and competitive nature of this appeals to me in the most carnal way. Love it.

I bet you the after game drinking party that goes on has them all as good friends.

One clip in there has someone who obviously just finished wailing on someone else, sitting on their chest, offering them a drink of water.

Carnal quite strongly implies that it's a sexual desire.....

Anal?

This is a sport for the stupid, you 3rd worlds can have it.

Unfortunately it is only interesting when condensed into a video of this length. The usual matches seem to consist of 50 minutes of people engaging in poser brawls - then somebody remembers that he can actually run over to the other team's goal.
The lack of athletic competitiveness means that neither the fights nor the ballplay end up particularily engaging :-(

Thats what it looks like, for something being coined "voilent" these guys look pretty clean, minus the dirt.

Surprising lack of blood and/or bruises for so many punches being thrown. The ones that do land don't seem to be doing much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA9lRIWgNf8

I fail to see much difference!

The first rule of Calcio Storico is . . .

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