When Italy Was Dreaming with the "1X2": the Totocalcio Schedule Is 80 Years Old
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The first schedule of the Totocalcio was played on May 5, 1946, eighty years ago. My first job was to check out the schedules. The mechanism was simple, mechanical and hypnotic together. The sequence was memorized as a poem, and the 12 and 13 were searched for. The sequence continued to turn in the head even after, returning home, in sleep.
On May 5, 1946 the first contest. Beginning not easy, but then it was a multiplication of stories, starting from the million-dollar payout of the Sardinian miner who changed his life with that money
Rome, May 5, 2026 "On May 5, 1946 Italy was not only a country to be rebuilt, but an economy to be rebuilt. On that Monday of eighty years ago, the debut of the Sisal schedule (later become Totocalcio) not only represented the birth of a pastime, but the activation of an unprecedented financial flywheel. Designed by journalists Massimo Della Pergola, Fabio Jegher and Geo Molo, the prediction contest was for half a century the main "sovereign fun…
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