Sport
Rovigo is home of Rugby Rovigo, the city rugby team Super 10 competition who won 11 national championships in his category. Among the international players who played in the team remembers the South African Naas Botha.
Other practiced sports include football, swimming, handball, Baseball and roller hockey. The "Rosso Blu" as the Baseball team is known is at the level of Serie "A" competition. Notable American players who have played for Rovigo Baseball include: Nathan Cardella (Fresno, Ca.) and Mark Peracchi (San Francisco, Ca).
Rovigo is the first Italian city to have a team of Gaelic football. Rovigo Gaelic Football Gaa was founded June 2, 2011. The team colors are red and blue.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)