Talk:Volata

Dubious

Mussolini did not hate football, this is bullshit. Read "Football and Fascism: The National Game Under Mussolini"[1] if anything he pushed the game and wanted Italian supremcy in the sport, also there is a very famous picture of him standing over an A.S. Roma flag. - The Daddy 20:34, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

And Franco didn't love football. He loved bullfighting, but not football. There are countless ocassions of him being bored to death when having to attend Cup finals. There is no substance on that comment other than the fact that he tried to capitalise on the European achievements of Real Madrid, and that most members of his goverments did love football and Real Madrid. Jorge P (talk) 22:02, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

I've changed the text accordingly, but further research and citation is necessary! Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits)^{Join WikiProject Athletics!} 16:25, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

A lot of males don't actually like football, contrary to the stereotypes.--MacRusgail (talk) 17:29, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Rules

I found it impossible to find any details on the rules of volata on the Internet. But surely more is known about the game then "Volata (flow) was played by eight-man sides to rules that were a hybrid of football and handball". It cannot be that this is all that humanity knows about it? As I said, it is absolutely impossible to find anything more, but surely someone knows something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zhelja (talk • contribs) 00:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

an essay about the "giuoco della volata" As far as I know, volata has been the subject of some researches in Italy. See Marco Impiglia, "The volata game. When Fascism forbade Italians to play football", in (Arnd Kruger & Angela Teja (eds) Atti del primo seminario europeo di storia dello sport, Roma 29 november 1 december 1996. - Here it is the true story. In the summer of 1928 Augusto Turati, president of the National Olympic Commettee and n. 2 in Italy of the Fascist Party, invented the volata game. It was a mixing of football, rugby, handball, calcio fiorentino and basketball. Two teams, composed by 8 players each, confronted on a football playground, restricted and modified. Game lasted one hour, divided into three times of 20 minutes each. Basic principle was that the ball could be played by using hands and feet, but for not more than three seconds. Turati launched the volata as the main sport of the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro, the national loisir organism of the workers. The first official match was contested in the Fascist Party Stadium of Rome on 6 January 1929. It was advertised by roaring propaganda. In a short time there were created more than 1000 volata teams. In 1930 a Federation of Giuoco della Volata (FIGV) was established and started a national championship. Benito Mussolini attended the final played in Rome and won by Richard Ginori Milan. But the new sport did not meet with the favour of Italian sports public, which preferred the fascinating soccer to the bizarre volata. In 1933 there were just 444 teams. In 1935 only 100. Along the season 1936-37 the volata game ("sport fascistissimo) was banished from the range of sports of OND. Volata was easy forgotten and completely effaced by the sports history of the country. The main reason of the failure of the volata game is strictly connected to the reasons of its birth. In 1928 football in Italy had been the target of severe censure. Its enemies remarked that the "British game" was not convenient to afterworkers because it developed legs only. Volata had been studied to counteract such a limit. However, after 1930 the Azzurri began to win trophies everywhere and critics on soccer were rapidly buried in oblivion. Calcio became the glory and strenght of Fascist Italy. At that point, it had no sense to prevent afterworkers from practising the national sport of the country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.43.213.203 (talk) 08:33, 10 November 2009 (UTC)