A blast from the past with the Is Bixinaus football tournament that starts today in Settimo San Pietro with competitions scheduled until tomorrow at the municipal synthetic grass pitch. For today the matches Bi'e Casteddu-Bacch'e Mara at 19.30 and Villaggio Sa Gruxi Santa-S'arri'e sa pira at 20.45 are scheduled. Saturday from 5 pm the two finals between today's winners. The award ceremony will follow. “Is Bixinaus (the neighborhoods) - as we read in a note from the organization - for those who are already of a certain age it is the neighborhood in which they were born remains a physical place but also an indelible concept in the memory. In other times, one's bixinau had a strong social connotation and within each neighborhood everyone had very clear what were the boundaries that somehow separated one from the other. In the past, the rhythms of the days were much less affected by the rush and frenzy of today, there was no internet and the exchange of a chat in bixinau was a practically mandatory and daily custom that brought people together, contributing decisively to shape the spirit of belonging to each community ".
Thus were born also the challenges with the ball on improvised fields and with many spectators around the playing area. "This more traditional way of living within a community was obviously also reflected in the habits and games of the children for which, in a time when football schools existed perhaps only in large cities, young people often practiced sport as self-taught. , on the street or in some uncultivated land (s'axrolla) where we worked with hoes and rakes to create the playground with stones to delimit the doors. "In the memory of many young people, now adults, the football matches between the bixinau in via Verdi and the newborn village at the end of the 70s / early 80s have remained epic. And then other memories not to be forgotten.