American Dream


  • Photographer
    Roberta Cappelli
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2011

Willpower of the american football players in Rome. American Football in Italy is not as organized and popular as in U.S.A. Facilities for practice of this sport are, in most cases, improbable and very uncomfortable, but perhaps, precisely because this reason, American Football in Italy is still made of passion, willingness, determination, and the Italian players are very headstrong and proud to play this sport. A team of the Roman coasts, the Black Hammers, have its training session on a makeshift field, and the situation, expecially during the winter, with the wind coming from the nearby sea and under heavy rains, tests the real tenacity of the guys, willing to do anything to play the sport that for them is a lifestyle. Rain, mud, puddles, low lights, old balls, sometimes a bit deflated, against the backdrop of the nearby public housing, show the loneliness of a sport not well known in Italy. But sometimes, a couple of dogs reach the field for a run along with the athletes ....

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