Rome is ready to become the European capital of walking football thanks to the 1st International Tournament “City of Rome”, organized by the National Walking Football League in collaboration with Asc, which will be held between Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 March with over 30 teams from all over the continent. “The Rome tournament is only the first step, the various regional championships will start soon. This is a dream for us. In our country just under 1,000 people practice it, abroad professional clubs like Newcastle, Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City have their own team and we decided that it was time for Italy to also make up for it”, admits Andrea Ceccarelli, president of the National Walking Football League, during the press conference presenting the tournament. While Cristiano Pasero, vice president of the League, sets the goal of “bringing as many people as possible to play a new football”. A discipline, that of walking football, born in 2011 in the United Kingdom and in which it is forbidden to run, contacts are prohibited and where there is no header; an evolution of traditional football that arouses curiosity even in former footballers like Giuseppe Incocciati, for whom it represents “a further possibility. I’m curious to participate, long live the sports that can be done at any age”. A sport, moreover, that has “as its objective that of inclusion. Sport is good for every person and every age, it is a help for the body and mind, as well as for interpersonal relationships”, the words of Maria Spena, member of the Cda of Sport and Health. While Antonello Aurigemma, president of the Lazio Regional Council, emphasizes how this is a “sport of inclusion that sees its members grow, it is essential that institutions, on important issues such as sport, are united in support”. (ANSA).