Massimiliano Petragallo, a longtime calciante for the Rossi (Reds) of Santa Maria Novella who first joined their ranks in 1995, swears he wouldn’t mind if his only son were to take up Florence’s most violent game—or most violent giochino, as it’s called colloquially among its players. “I’d be calm about it. Either way I’d have an open mind. I had the chance to decide whether calcio in costume was something I wanted to do or not, so why shouldn’t he?” Massimiliano says.
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