In two weeks Matti’s starting whistle for football with 12 teams
To S. Benedetto del Tronto, with people with mental discomfort, doctors, nurses, operators. T. Pesce, A.Baldi, S. Ricciatti, D. Ficcadenti speak
Parma, 11 September 2025 – Matti for football, the XVII National Review of the Mental Health Departments organized by UISP, will return to the field in San Benedetto del Tronto (AP) from 25 to 27 September. The Giulio Merlini stadium, in which the Sambenedettese usually trains, will host 12 Mixed teams made up of people with mental discomfort, doctors, nurses, sports and family operators. Players and players will come from the ASLs throughout Italy, from voluntary organizations and social cooperatives.
A total of 30 football games will take place, one after the other, over three days. The start whistle is set at 4 pm on Thursday 25 September. The finals will be held on the morning of Saturday 27 September.
On the green lawn of the Giulio Merlini stadium, two seven fields will be traced, which will welcome the meetings with two times of 20 minutes each. The participating teams will be: Asd third half (Turin/Piedmont); Total Madness (Milan/Lombardy); Get next SCS Onlus (Milan/Lombardy); Colle del Pionta Arezzo APS (Arezzo/Tuscany); Arkadia Onlus (Arezzo/Tuscany); Coop. La Rondine (Turin/Piedmont); ASD Global Sport Lario (Lariano/Lombardy); Pieve di Campo & Fuorigioco (Perugia-Trasimeno/Umbria); Ass. Va thought (Parma/Emilia-Romagna);
Matti’s press conference for football 2025 It will be held on Thursday 18 September in the council chamber of the Municipality of San Benedetto del Tronto (AP), in via A. De Gasperi 124. They will participate: Antonio Spazzafumo, mayor of San Benedetto del Tronto; Cinzia Campanelli, councilor for sport of the Municipality of San Benedetto del Tronto; Vittorio Massi, president of Sambenedettese Calcio; Alessandro Baldi, national football coordinator Uisp; Simone Ricciatti, regional president Uisp Marche; Daniel Ficcadenti, Uisp President Ascoli Piceno.
This year it will also be present Italo Dosio, a pioneer psychiatrist of Matti for football in Turin in the 90s, who will be among the participants in the round table “Offside prejudices: sport and integration against discrimination “organized by UISP, together with UNAR and Serie A League, as part of the project”Sic! Sport Integration Cohesion “. Appointment Thursday 25 September at 11 am in the press room of the Riviera delle Palme stadium.
Since 1995, as part of the Matti for football project, many territorial initiatives were born and structured, thanks to some pilot experiences that the Uisp, in collaboration with various ASL, has promoted to Turin, Rome, Parma, Bologna, Genoa and other cities. Since 2006 these local initiatives have become a completely free national event for participants: Matti for Football is a national review of sporting and social promotion that intervenes on the ground of cultural models.
Matti for football is a cultural challenge before sporty, which represents a simple way to put together problem and care: sport, the game of football in particular, as individual and group therapy to overcome more or less acute forms of mental disorder but also to bring closer to sociality, respect for the rules and the assumption of responsibility, building opportunities for social inclusion.
Matti for Uisp football is inserted in the European Sports Week/European Week of Sport (Ewos) 2025which will be held from 23 to 30 September 2025, within the tenth edition of the #beactive campaign of the European Commission, promoted in Italy by Minister for Sport and young peopletogether with Department for Sport and Sport and Health.
“Matti for football interprets the social value of sport in a concrete and direct way, in the sign of Franco Basaglia and the psychiatrists who have built this formula – he says Tiziano Pesce, national president of UISP – that is: to overcome the crystallized roles of hospital life and relate people with mental discomfort, medical staff, operators and family members. In this way, sport creates spaces of inclusion and contributes to overcoming mental discomfort and prejudices, promoting health and psychophysical well -being “.
“The teams are mixed: men and women, boys of 18 years of age alongside sixty -year -olds, take the field. Matti for football play the doctor, the patient and the operator and it is nice that it is just like that: the discomfort and prejudice are all overcome together”, he says Alessandro Baldi, national football coordinator Uisp.
“We are extremely happy to start this collaboration with Sambenedettese – he declares Daniel Claudio Ficcadentipresident of the Uisp Committee of Ascoli Piceno – a company that shares our values and our passion for sport and social. We are convinced that this partnership will enrich our territory and offer new opportunities to the community. I sincerely thank President Vittorio Massi for his availability and commitment in this project “.
Simone ricciattipresident Uisp Marche: “Matti for football has been one of the most beautiful and significant experiences of our movement for years. It is an event that puts in the field The idea of sport as a right, an opportunity to meet and the possibility of breaking down prejudices and barriers. Seeing together users of the mental health departments, operators, family members and volunteers reminds us that sport can really be a tool of health, inclusion and active citizenship. Bringing this review to the Marche is a source of pride and responsibility for us: we want it to become an opportunity for growth for the whole territory “.
(Source: Press Office & National Uisp Communication)
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