Calcio Fiorentino, is an early form of football from the 16th century that originated from the ancient roman ‘harpastum’, and is played in teams of 27, using both feet and hands and allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking, but forbids sucker-punching and kicks to the head. Goals can be scored by throwing the ball over a goal running the width of each end of the sand covered field
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