Few people know that one of the progenitors of football, Rugby and American football was a game of Calcio, an Italian Florentine, which is now called historic football. Annually, this game takes place in June at the central square of Florence. In the Calcio started playing back in the late Middle Ages, and up to now the rules have remained virtually unchanged. Play with the ball, take away that can be almost any means, which is why the French King Henry III in 1574 year said "it is still not a war, but not the game.
Players are divided into 2 teams of 27 people in each. They wear pants on the fashion of the XVI century and played bare-chested. The game allowed almost any power techniques, and you can attack all players, not just the one that runs with the ball. The aim of the game is for 50 minutes to score as many goals. After each team scored change gate. The only modern innovation was the medical team assisting the victims directly on field.
