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In the 70s' Rome was experiencing a strong housing crisis. A bunch of enlighted architects designed a residential building made of 1200 living modules. A block of concrete, 1000 meters long. The building, far from the city and with no connections, was supposed to be autonomous and independent. The inhabitants should have found everything they needed inside it. The utopia of the project took life in a maze of corridors, balconies and septa of concretes, today known as "serpentone", the big snake. During a long time services has never been completed, connections were missing and maintenance never carried out. Corviale became an avoided and forgotten neighborhood. A concentrate of social disease where the political failure emphasized the vulnerability of the very inhabitants. In this context a new idea started to blossom: the "serpentone" was not a monster to shoot down, but a potentiality made of its 8000 inhabitants. Campo-dei-Miracoli (fields of miracles) was born in 2009. The game of football is reinvented and now based on social inclusion, fair play and legality. It is called Calciosociale (social football). The experiment succeeded, involving 10 teams and a hundred of participants of any gender, age, ability and origin. During the day players crowd the field, while at night volunteers work at the microphones of RadioImpegno. From midnight to 8 am the radio broadcast from Corviale, assuring the continuative presence in the neighborhood. This is the football revolution.