Cross and delight of the Italic people, football has been more than just a passion for over a century. It is unconditional love that leads us to make extreme gestures. Things like following your favorite team to Russia, thus giving up that weekend planned with our girlfriend's relatives. Such a pity. Then there are parallel activities that have developed around the world of football: Sunday blasphemy at the bar, free belching in front of the game (Fantozzi doc) or fantasy football.
Fantasy football: how much are you willing to spend?
Invented by the Italian Riccardo Albini, fantasy football is one fantasy sports (of those who do not let you pick up) which consists in setting up and guiding our hypothetical football team. It works like this: around June-July, friends and acquaintances begin to pray for them to participate. Once the number of participants has been reached (from 4 to 10, but there are also extreme variants with entire popular neighborhoods) we plan the auction. This phase focuses on the purchase of the players who will make up ours fantasy team. Each player has a certain amount of ghosts (term used to indicate the currency of the game) that will have to spend for 25 players. Simple you will say. With cabbage I answer. The problem is that maybe more people will pour their interests on the same player, thus unleashing furious raises (not only of fantamillioni, but also of objects) only to win the Pellissier on duty. And many greetings to our ten-year friendship.
Ready go! Now it gets serious
After the auction and the composition of the calendar, the survivors can start their championship. Before each round of Serie A i fantasy coaches (a title that has no influence on the girls) deploy their own formation. The goal is only one: to hope that your players score, assist, save a penalty or get at least 6 on the report card. But above all that they do not break. Because when the front crusader of our best striker starts, everyone is in pain.
At the end of the championship day, the points are summarized by consulting the report cards of the main sports newspapers. If the total sum of all values (votes, bonuses, malus, insults) is higher than that of our opponent, then it will be 3 points and a nice week. If, on the other hand, it is lower, we will have one more reason to hate Mondays. Ah there is also a tie, so there will be two swearing.
I only do it for the money
Like all the good things in life, fantasy football also involves the use of vile money. In addition to the glory, in fact, the participants aim to finish first for the final loot. But what figures are we talking about? During the preparation phase it is established a contribution that each player must pay every week. It starts from the simple symbolic euro, up to the exchange of the personal car. So imagine the scenario: 10 individuals who pay 2 euros each round of the championship, all 38 times. Without you taking the calculator, I tell you it does 760 €. In short, a nice nest egg. Hence the first place (but also the second and third, depending on the rules decided) becomes the number one goal. Obviously this involves a lot of stress, and there are departments in the clinics in Italy dedicated to fantasy coaches who lose everything on the last day, including the family car given in trade-in.
