From the first billion lire to the first million euros: in tomorrow's competition, the number 7 of the year, the jackpot of the new Totocalcio will break through the wall of one million euros, considering that the last prize pool has reached 896 thousand euros.
An almost 45-year journey that always has as its protagonist the best known and oldest betting competition on Italian football.
In almost 5 decades the world has changed, football has changed but the famous Thirteen has always remained in the heart and collective memory of the country;
the success of the new formula launched on 4 January is the clearest demonstration of this.
Now, overcoming the million euro wall, the new Totocalcio crosses the significant milestone of the round figure.
The same thing happened 45 years ago in competition number 19 on December 31, 1977 when, for the first time in the history of the game, the winnings exceeded one billion lire.
On the 13th he gave the lucky winner a billion and 185 thousand lire.
The ticket at the time included eight Serie A matches, three of Serie B and the last two of Serie C.
The results that made that ticket billionaire were essentially two and involved the two Milanese formations: Inter was blocked at home by Pescara who had collected the misery of 6 points in 11 days while the leaders Milan of Liedholm and Rivera were resumed, at six minutes from the end of Atalanta, a distant relative of Gasperini's terrible boys.
In short, Milan gave a shrewd football player a billionaire smile.
But fate has decided that next Sunday, when the first 13 millionaire of the game could be hit, there will be neither Milan nor Inter in the schedule.
Twenty matches scheduled, 8 fixed and the remaining 5 to be chosen, between Serie A, Serie B, Premier League, Liga, Bundesliga and Ligue 1: the best of Italian and European football for the seventh competition of the year that promises still numbers growing.
If in the first ticket of 2022 160 thousand columns were played, in the last one they exceeded 447 thousand.
Data that show how the Totocalcio, thanks to the new formulas, the possibility of playing both in bookshops and online on the sisal.it site, and a different jackpot for each type of game, has once again impressed the Italians.
