THE CITYGAME

by Giuseppe Di Vaio

Documentaries
Production year 2024
Length 63’ min.
Genre Documentary

Synopsis

In the summer in Naples, after the sunset, the city comes alive with dozens of street football tournaments. Amateur players of all ages, followed by thousands of fiery fans, racing around on their scooters from one outskirt to the other to play and attend as many matches as possible each night. A frenzy, a fever seems to take over the city. These street champions are the heroes of a marginal world, acclaimed by working-class neighborhoods e contended by crime families that try to contaminate even this popular passion with unbelievable betting schemes. Antonio known as the Cobra, forty-year old player with frail ligaments and a big heart, and Francesco, known as the Ninja, twenty years of energy in a body ready to explode with vitality, will introduce us to street football, an incredibly pure passion that in Naples can truly save lives.