Fibis President, Andrea Mancino: "We are the Brazilians of billiards" E 'typical game from the bar, always surrounded by a halo of the left spectacular but also charm and seduction. Recently taken to the rank of sport with the organization of international tournaments and World Championships for discipline, the pool was created in France about six centuries ago, when it begins to spread a kind of table suitable for a game like that called 'cannon'. Immediate dissemination continental Europe and especially in Italy, where he soon develops a version of the game called 'the Italian 5 pins', practiced especially in aristocratic courts, most notably that of the Bourbons, but in the twentieth century is that, thanks to the spread in America, the pool develops all its virtuosity and all its variants (the main ones are about a dozen), all of which referred to a table with holes. The game takes place in fact in a rectangular field surrounded by banks and whose surface is covered with the characteristic soft green; where they are made to move (through the use of an auction called the Tube) bowls of these spherical balls. Despite belonging to the collective common, the pool is still little known activity in both technical and organizational characteristics. Several clubs distributed throughout Italy and many fans, as he explains the President of the National Federation Andrea Mancino: "a thousand circles which are counted along the peninsula, which include over 20,000 members, who carry out activities during the year the provincial, regional and national. There are four main specialties of the pool which is divided between the lovers: the 'pool', an activity typically American to play with colored balls numbered, and the 'carom', spread purely European, practiced on a table without pockets and with three balls, the 'bottle', which is played without the use of the cue, the '5 skittles ', typically Italian specialties. Our country - says proudly Mancino - is among the protagonists of all these specialties and is rated as the reference point in Europe. In bowling '5 'are the strongest in the world and in the' pool 'are regarded as the Brazilians in football. " But coming from the 'carom' last international success: on 19 October to Wendel in Germany Marco Zanetti has indeed graduated for the second time World Champion in the specialty three sides, repeating the title already won in 2002, when he was also named "Player of the Year."
A specialty that is usually not counted in the category 'sport' and that instead it belongs to all intents and purposes. "First of all - Andrea Mancino continues - even if the pool is not part of the Olympic program, is recognized by the IOC, the International Committee, so it is in effect an Olympic sport. Moreover, contrary to what one might expect, also requires a physical condition. A race can indeed take hours or even a day whole, and mental ability and concentration is closely linked to nervous tension. To bear this burden must be prepared physically, it is less easy than it looks. " Although it is an activity that requires a comprehensive training, billiards is far from the practice of doping, "for us would be counterproductive. - Says the president Fibis - The use of drugs would lead to a drop in performance for our athletes must remain constant for several hours. During the competitions there are always checks and has never expressed any circumstances. "
President of the Italian Federation billiards Sports from February 2005, Andrea Mancino is now totally focused on the next event that will involve all the professionals: "From November 15 to 30 at the Casino of Saint Vincent in Valle d'Aosta will take place on the Grand Prix of Gorizia, a event that counts at the starting approximately eighteen hundred competitors from National, the first, second and third category. A real show of bowling '9 ', which each year involved in the qualifying rounds will also be different cues DOC Wide participation of women, which is growing significantly in recent years. The pool is seen as the quintessential sport for men but in recent years, with the development of the 'pool', specialties extremely young, the women are catching up. "
Despite the growing participation and presence in the regions, but the pool does not enjoy special subsidies from the cones, "Every year - continues Mancino - we receive a contribution of about Euro 100,000.00 in the associated discipline. This category of sport receives from the State 2 and a half million euro of subsidy, to be divided for 17 specialties. If you think that the smallest of the national sports, what is the table tennis receives 2 million, you can understand how there can be difference in treatment between the categories. My goal, like that of the entire federation, that's what to have more attention from the national committee to be able to grow even more this spectacular activity. " Giulia
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