[The Italian]

have you ever heard of a discipline called "Calcio fiorentino" (Florentine football) or "Calcio storico" (Historic football)?
It's an early form of football played in medieval times in Italy: the game is played on a field of sand with a narrow slit constituting the goal, running the width of each end. Each teams comprises 27 players who are allowed to use both feet and hands to pass and control the ball. Goals (or cacce) are scored by throwing the ball over into the netting at the end of the field. There is a main referee, six linesmen and a field master. Each match is played out for 50 minutes with the winner being the team with the most goals scored.
This sport it's still played in Florence (hence its name) and it's a very brutal discipline, the modern version of calcio allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking.
The only banned things are sucker punches, kicks to the head and two (or more) one one attacks.

I can imagine what you are thinking: "what this has to do with the topic of this forum"?
Well it's seems that a couple of years ago women started playing it too.

http://www.calciofiorentinofemminile.com

I think that some video producers could take some inspiration from this 

 

[Lee AB]

Thank you. I remember being at Santa Croce just before or after the Calcio as the stands and such were up in front of the church. I had seen video of an earlier event, and I remember thinking that a women's one would be awesome.

Just goes to show sometimes dreams do come true.

[The Italian]

can you rip your opponents uniform top or bottoms off ?  

Well, I think having clothes ripped off is a natural consequence of this discipline

And again, if some video producer is reading this: look at this videos and think what you can obtain if you combine the two things  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzUf_Hkjvlc
And
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Esuthi99Q

[wasteland1952]

This does look very good, indeed!

I've done a fairly good internet search, and I can't find any actual videos of women taking part in Calico Storico.  There are several "vids" out there, but they are only slide shows of still photos.  I haven't been able to locate any actual video footage of women engaging in these contests.

Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, or using the right search terms.  Has anyone found actual video footage?

Thanks!