Sicily: Soccer Semi Final Victory! Balestrate v. ?

This past week we'd seen posters up around town telling us that the hometown favourites (Balestrate) were fighting for their spot in the finals against who? Well, some lesser team as it turned out. Balestrate was victorious, although due to our late arrival we didn't see the game winning goal. The teams seemed pretty evenly matched - and yes, they were adults, not children (as I had thought from the posters).

We both really appreciated the sportsman like conduct of all the players. Even though there were a few penalties called, by and large the players weren't taking obious dives (which we both hate), and they were willing to allow their opponents to help them up off the field.

At the very end there was a bit of hooliganism for no reason (as is usual), but it didn't escalate into anything...

Finish the day off with wood fired oven PIZZA and ALCAMO white wine!