Volata

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Volata ( flying ball ) is a ball game that was promoted by Augusto Turati as a team sport during the time of Italian fascism . As an invented tradition , it was supposed to tie in with ancient Roman ball games ( harpastum ). Turati was both the General Secretary of the Fascist Party and the President of the National Olympic Committee ( CONI ). He also made sure that Mussolini could always be present at the final of the Italian championship to present the trophy.

Volata is related to field handball and rugby . It is played on a pitch that must be at least 40 by 60 meters and a maximum of the size of a football pitch . There are two teams with eight players each. The ball (400 g, circumference 68 to 71 cm) can be kicked, thrown and carried. A player may carry the ball up to 10 meters (but not longer than 3 seconds) or shoot it. The goal is as high as a football goal (2.44 m), but only 5.00 m wide. Around the goal there is a semicircle like field handball (8 m), which can only be entered by the goalkeeper and not by the opposing team. When the ball kicks off, the ball is in the middle of the field and the players sprint from the baseline to the ball, which they then have to pick up - and are not allowed to kick. The game lasts 3 times 20 minutes with a 5–10 minute break.

Volata quickly ousted rugby in Italy, but in the long term could not outperform football , which was considered un-Italian as an English game . When Italy won the FIFA World Cup in their own country in 1934 , Volata lost importance again.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich: Ramba: Determination of the formative traits in the sport of Greco-Roman antiquity, Diss. Göttingen 2014; http://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/handle/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5EFD-8
  2. ↑ http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antichi-giochi-italiani_%28Enciclopedia-dello-Sport%29/
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : The Influence of the Fascist Sports Model of Italy on National Socialist Sports. In: Morgen A. Olsen (Ed.): Sport and Politics. 1918-1939 / 40. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1986, pp. 226-232; Arnd Krüger : Sport in Fascist Italy (1922-1933). In: G. Spitzer, D. Schmidt (Ed.): Sport between independence and external determination. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Hajo Bernett . P. Wegener, Bonn 1986, pp. 213-226.