American Football, Guelfi Firenze triumph in the championship final: victory and marriage proposal

Toledo (Ohio-USA), June 29, 2025 – It's a big celebration for Florence: the Guelfi are champions of Italy of American football for the second time in their history, three years after the triumph of 2022. A clear, overwhelming victory, which forcefully erases the bitterness of the last two finals lost against the Panthers Parma, including the one in 2023, also played in Toledo, Ohio . This time, however, the land of American football smiled on the Viola, who – in front of an extraordinary crowd at the Glass Bowl – wrote the word "end" on a perfect season: 12 games, 12 victories . In the XLIV Italian Bowl, the Guelfi Firenze annihilated the Dolphins Ancona with a sensational 49 to 14, closing a year in which no one even managed to come close to the level of play expressed by the men in purple. A superiority evident in every phase of the match, both in attack and defense, with a team that worked perfectly and an absolute leader, Andrea Fimiani, who signed an MVP season. The purple quarterback crowned his extraordinary journey with three personal scores and an endless series of perfect throws , deservedly winning the award for best player of the final. Immediately after the kick-off, the first protagonist for the purple team was Eystin Salum: the "Swiss army knife" of the Guelfi once again demonstrated that he can be decisive in every phase of the game, signing an interception that immediately directed the inertia of the game. After a brief study phase, it was Fimiani who took the stage: first the first touchdown of the challenge on a personal run, then a perfect TD pass for Mibelli. After closing the first quarter on 14-0, the Guelfi accelerated in the second: touchdowns by Bartoccioni and Fimiani again on a run, with conversion kicks by Camilli to capitalize on every action. The Dolphins, stunned, were unable to react, blocked by a Florentine defense in bunker version. At halftime, the score was already a heavy 28-0 .

In the second half, the script did not change. The Guelfi continued to dominate, scoring again with Casati, Stola and a third time with Fimiani, widening the gap to 42-0. Only in the last quarter did the Dolphins Ancona have a surge of pride, finding two touchdowns signed by Dazzani and Nocera, which changed the score but not the substance of a game that was never really in question, ending with the final result of 49-14. A result that gives Florence a championship that had been missing since the last success of the Guelfi, who can now celebrate their second title. A victory that in addition to the sporting value, has a strong symbolic meaning. It is the expected, desired revenge, it is the joy built after the finals lost with the Parma Panthers. Florence is now a stable power in the panorama of Italian football and with such a competitive group the Guelfi can look to the future with ambition. The present, however, is all to celebrate, also because for some Guelfi the joy is double. Andrea Nadalini, a player from Bologna, recently won 30 thousand euros by participating in the program Affari Tuoi before celebrating the title of Italian champion. Special emotions also for Lorenzo Chiusi, who at the end of the match asked for the hand of his partner Martina: double ring for him, between sporting triumph and marriage proposal.