Oltrestazione Calcio: the lightness of Italian football suburb
A journey through the Milan's Football Communities
Sports
October 25th, 2019
October 25th, 2019
Football in Milan is a matter of Inter and Milan, two different philosophies before two clubs, which for two games a year face and remembering each other the Triplete and the seven Champions League title. The women's football this year has given two more derbies to the city, a road parallel to the daily story of a historic rivalry that remains under the Rossoneri and Nerazzurri colors.
Football in Milan and its province, however, is also made up of minor clubs like Oltrestazione, the name of the team and a district of Legnano (a city between Milan and Varese), but also "an inevitable attitude, that of overcoming opponents, obstacles and definitions".
Oltrestazione plays in Sunday league, in rude pitch where the grass is a negligible detail as well as good manners. "In the province, there are quite a few beautiful fields and others less so, the worst place is in Arconate, unplayable".
A photographic project has grown around the team, which tries to tell the lightness of football. As some of the club's player told to nss sports, the photos
"are a way to have a memory of what we are doing and of the family we are becoming, it was fun to define a definite identity for the project by simulating and even copying the big clubs. We try not to fall victim to stereotypes and try to experiment”.
Football communities in Milan and the suburbs in recent times are telling the story of football in the city with a different focus, in which not only photography but also graphics and fashion can be a sign of identity. However, Oltrestazione is not just a photographic project, but a club that defends rivalry like the one with Oltresempione Legnano born “for a name too similar to our; hating everything that falls within the boundaries of Busto Arsizio is instead a moral obligation".
The color of the jersey is yellow, "like the line that delimits the platform at the station and makes the opponents move backward", while the spirit is the same as when wearing loose shirts and black shoes.
