Sports history 'The most punched kick' in the world

Watching a match Calcio Storico will make you dazed and stunned to see players trying to 'assassinate' each other on the field.

Learn the history of sports "soccer punch"

When it comes to sports, one of us also promotes fair play . However, do you believe that there are still sports in the world where players can freely "punch" each other on the field without being "blew" for mistakes.

Called the 'historic football' game , the Calcio Storico is an annual activity taking place in the Italian city ​​of Florence . This sport is known for its brutality because during the match, players can freely attack each other without committing any rules.

Even King Henry III of France, after witnessing a bridge match in 1574, had to declare that 'the size of the game was too small to be called a war, but too cruel to be considered one game'.

The rules of this sport are very simple. Each team will have 27 players on a large sand court with size about 80x40m.

The members of each team are allowed to do whatever they want to do, such as kicks, objects that aim to bring the ball to the other end of the opponent's yard. Teams will not have the right to replace people in the event of an injury or being sent off.

The referee, along with 6 others, is responsible for controlling the match, intervening and helping the game go smoothly. However, this does not prevent players from going all out to fight on the sand.

Also because the number of players is too crowded, there are many cases when a scuffle occurs on the field, the referee has not come to intervene before a party collapses.

As the name suggests, this ' historical football' has been around for so long that historians cannot determine its time.

Although this game is said to be quite famous in the Roman army around the time before the city of Florence was founded in 59.

Calcio was quite popular during the fifteenth century, and was reserved exclusively for aristocracy. Even the Pope like Clement VII, Leo XI and Urban VIII also participated in this game in the city of Vantican.

The first recorded event in Florence was in 1530. The match still took place despite the city being under French control.

The modern version of the game began in 1930 with four teams from four areas of the city: the Santa Croce blue team, the red team of Santa Maria Novella, the white team from Santo Spirito and the green team from San Giovanni.

Violent acts are allowed for players to use such as punching, kicking, wrestling .

Today the game allows the use of tactics such as using elbows, punches, choking but banning kicking in the head or using sharp objects to hurt the enemy.

The players also do not have the right to attack a team member of the opposing team. Any act prohibited above violating the player will be dismissed.

Today, thousands of people come to the yard every year to watch and cheer for players to join this violent sport .