- Marco Impiglia is an Italian sports historian, journalist and writer, which is sensitive and wrote of every kind of s... moreMarco Impiglia is an Italian sports historian, journalist and writer, which is sensitive and wrote of every kind of sport: soccer, rugby, cycling, volleyball, basketball, baseball, cricket, curling, gymnastics, rowing, weightlifting, shooting, sailing, water-polo, boxing, wrestling, horse-racing, equestrian, fencing, bowling, swimming, skiing, korfball, netball, ancient folk Roman games too. He is member of the editorial board of the magazine Lancillotto e Nausica. Critica e storia dello sportedit
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The World Cup tournaments are one of the most eagerly awaited events in the contemporary society. In this survey, the anecdotes, oddities and curious facts are grouped by theme and do not follow a chronological order. The result is a... more
The World Cup tournaments are one of the most eagerly awaited events in the contemporary society. In this survey, the anecdotes, oddities and curious facts are grouped by theme and do not follow a chronological order. The result is a football puzzle that I hope will be a travel companion for you.
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The genesis of the “romanista ” soccer fan (1927-1943) In the capital of Italy, a town of almost four million inhabitants, soccer is one of the subjects most discussed on a daily basis. For us it is the most important topic, followed not... more
The genesis of the “romanista ” soccer fan (1927-1943) In the capital of Italy, a town of almost four million inhabitants, soccer is one of the subjects most discussed on a daily basis. For us it is the most important topic, followed not particularly closely by political matters and by complaints about the economic crisis brought on by the arrival of the euro. Soccer has been an obsession of the adult part of the masculine population since the nineteen-thirties, the most beloved subject of chats in the workplace, on street corners, or at the bar (and in newspapers, on the radio, on television, and on the internet, depending on what decade you are talking about). It became the most important topic in 1927, when the Associazione Sportiva Roma was born. It’s important to remember that soccer arrived in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century. It acquired popularity before the First World War, and was well-established by the Twenties. Soccer had been played in Rome for about thirty y...
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The unbelievable story of the capturing and killing of Mussolini while he was escaping from Italy, on 27-28 April, 1945. New evidence about the man who identified him, so changing the future of Italian people.
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Mike Collins was borne in Rome on October 1930. After his conquest of the moon, he returned to the Eternal City to celebrate and visit the house where he lived. A truly story filled with anecdotes and surprises.
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Escono dalle pagine una Italia e un calcio “bambini”, forse immaturi ma sicuramente affascinanti, e il merito di Impiglia è quello di saperci restituire il sapore della scoperta, dell’avventura e della libertà. Saremo degli inguaribili... more
Escono dalle pagine una Italia e un calcio “bambini”, forse immaturi ma sicuramente affascinanti, e il merito di Impiglia è quello di saperci restituire il sapore della scoperta, dell’avventura e della libertà. Saremo degli inguaribili romantici, ma come non avere un sussulto nell’apprendere, ad esempio, che la prima sede legale della Lazio era in vicolo degli Osti presso la casa di Luigi Bigiarelli solo perché lui era uno dei due maggiorenni del gruppo dei nove fondatori. Incredibile. La più antica società calcistica romana fondata da un gruppo di ragazzetti. Sarebbe possibile oggi? Di notevole interesse, nel volume, oltre ad un ampio corredo di foto d’epoca, la parte finale che va sotto il titolo di “statistiche”. Essa contiene una serie di schede riassuntive di tutte le squadre, i risultati, le classifiche dal 1895 al 1927. ("CAPITOLIUM", 2003)
Notes on some of the protagonists of football in Rome in the years 1943,1944 and 1945.
I nomi dei personaggi e l'ammontare dei guadagni che sortirono dalle operazioni di riordino urbano conseguenti ai Giochi Olimpici di Roma 1960.
Tratto dal mio libro: L'Olimpiade dal volto umano (2010)
Tratto dal mio libro: L'Olimpiade dal volto umano (2010)
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What will the FIFA World Cup be like at the end of this century? A sci-fi story that explains all the mechanisms and background of the World Cup as they will develop over the next seventy years. An incredible technology applied to sport,... more
What will the FIFA World Cup be like at the end of this century? A sci-fi story that explains all the mechanisms and background of the World Cup as they will develop over the next seventy years. An incredible technology applied to sport, but always with the contribution of man's astuteness.
The evolution of volleyball in Italy from WIi to the end of the fascist regime. The rebirth of the Italian Volley Federation in 1946 as a branch of the Italian Olympic Commeettee.
Benito Mussolini portrayed himself as a valiant sportsman, able to perform an astounding number of disciplines: equestrian, fencing, swimming, skiing, tennis,boxing, walking, rifle shooting. Mussolini's enthusiasm for being seen and... more
Benito Mussolini portrayed himself as a valiant sportsman, able to perform an astounding number of disciplines: equestrian, fencing, swimming, skiing, tennis,boxing, walking, rifle shooting. Mussolini's enthusiasm for being seen and photographed in athletic pose demonstrated to the world his virility, plus that the regime and the race. Introducing a new style of politics that John Hoberman terms 'political athleticism'. Our essay offers a complete panorama of “Mussolini as a Sportsman”, including 141 photographs and documents.
Benito Mussolini portrayed himself as a valiant sportsman, able to perform an astounding number of disciplines: equestrian, fencing, swimming, skiing, tennis,boxing, walking, rifle shooting. Mussolini's enthusiasm for being seen and... more
Benito Mussolini portrayed himself as a valiant sportsman, able to perform an astounding number of disciplines: equestrian, fencing, swimming, skiing, tennis,boxing, walking, rifle shooting. Mussolini's enthusiasm for being seen and photographed in athletic pose demonstrated to the world his virility, plus that the regime and the race. Introducing a new style of politics that John Hoberman terms 'political athleticism'. Our essay offers a complete panorama of “Mussolini as a Sportsman”, including 141 photographs and documents.
The research papers dealing with the starting of football in Italy at the turn of the XIX century indicate three main lines of ethnical and geographical impulse: 1) the British one with regard to seaports and the big industrial towns of... more
The research papers dealing with the starting of football in Italy at the turn of the XIX century indicate three main lines of ethnical and geographical impulse: 1) the British one with regard to seaports and the big industrial towns of Turin, Milan and Genoa; 2) the Swiss one with regard to many northern towns; 3) the Austrian and German line concerning the territories of the northeastern borders. To these three lines we have to add a forth one, relating to the national gym movement. It was the most important of the lot, if we consider the process of codification of the game. Gym teachers wrote down the first technical manuals, translating into Italian the English regulations. Such texts were the only published for a long time, at least till the end of the I World War. In the following some arguments are to be given in order to illustrate these original textbooks, with special reference to the first one, published in 1895 1. Generally speaking, the Italian Gymnastic Federation tried to insert football in a " citizen-soldier building " project; so that it left football a marginal space, charging it of ideological and martial duties. On the other side, football used the well structured and numerous gym associations to expand itself and, in a second time, claim a whole technical and ruling independence.
Sixty years of the most bizarre and tough of the Cycling races in Italy: The "Rome-Naples-Rome".
An Italian Cyclist, count Angelo Porciatti, took part at the first Olympics in Athens.
One hundred snapshots about Olympic carousel. The most bizarre and unbelievable ones!
Italian "Dynasties" at the Olympics are one of the reasons Italy is sixth in the ranking all-time.
Italy vs Germany, semifinal of the 1970 World Football Championships hosted in Azteca Stadium, is universally considered the Mother of all sports dramas. Here it is a memory by one of the protagonists: Italian midfielder Giancarlo De... more
Italy vs Germany, semifinal of the 1970 World Football Championships hosted in Azteca Stadium, is universally considered the Mother of all sports dramas.
Here it is a memory by one of the protagonists: Italian midfielder Giancarlo De Sisti.
Here it is a memory by one of the protagonists: Italian midfielder Giancarlo De Sisti.
From the Mandeville Stoke Games to the first official edition of the Paralympics Games in Roma 1960.
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A description of "Olympique Rome" in 1907, at the time the Eternal City missed the appointmen with De Coubertin and its Jueux Olympiques.
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Secondo numero del «Bollettino del Gruppo dei Romanisti», erede del «Bollettino dei Curatores dell’Alma Città di Roma» (1974-1994), pubblicato negli anni 1995-2001 e 2007, ora presente online nel sito www.gruppodeiromanisti.it. Il... more
Secondo numero del «Bollettino del Gruppo dei Romanisti», erede del «Bollettino dei Curatores dell’Alma Città di Roma» (1974-1994), pubblicato negli anni 1995-2001 e 2007, ora presente online nel sito www.gruppodeiromanisti.it. Il periodico, trimestrale,
contiene notizie utili per vigilare sui principali luoghi e monumenti di
Roma e per diffondere notizie riguardanti il Gruppo dei Romanisti, la sua attività e i suoi membri.
contiene notizie utili per vigilare sui principali luoghi e monumenti di
Roma e per diffondere notizie riguardanti il Gruppo dei Romanisti, la sua attività e i suoi membri.