00:00My name is Alex, I'm 16 years old and I study in Amethyst Sixth Form.
00:05I'm Justin, I'm 51 and I'm a performance manager for a local company.
00:12Civito is simply football mixed with chess.
00:17It's a tabletop game where you have 11 little figures
00:24and you flick them at the ball and try and score against your opponent.
00:28Alex is right in the fact that he says that it's very much like chess.
00:32I don't think many people realise how mentally challenging the game is.
00:37It might look like you're just flicking figures around the pitch
00:40but it is actually much more challenging than that
00:42because you've got to think very, very quickly
00:44and that's where the chess element of it comes in.
00:47You can make one mistake at a high level and you can be punished for it.
00:58Oh no!
01:08Oh!
01:18Oh!
01:21Oh man!
01:22What is that clip?
01:25I reckon if I can hit him a little bit.
01:27Yeah, go for it.
01:32Nice.
01:38If the ball hits your player?
01:39It changes to him.
01:40Okay.
01:44That's alright.
01:49Okay, that's a change.
01:51That's a change.
01:52Jesus, you're kind of through now.
01:55Oh, what are you doing?
02:01Your ball.
02:04Oh, God's sake!
02:07This is it, man. This is it.
02:10Don't say that.
02:12Oh no!
02:13Good goal.
02:22Oh!
02:23What?
02:24What is this game?
02:29Oh!
02:32Oh, that was in.
02:33Finally!
02:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:35My passion for Civutti started really when I was about 13,
02:41something like that, and I started going to a club and played a few games
02:49and actually found I was quite good at it and developed as a player
02:54and eventually went to a few national events and found it was really exciting
02:59and really enjoyed it and it's just grown from there, really.
03:02First memory I have of playing Civutti was at the first event my dad held
03:08at the library, the local library, and I was set up on a five-a-side pitch
03:16and no one played with me that day, but I was there
03:20and then I just started going to our local weekly night at the pointings
03:25and I just started playing from there.
03:28Yeah, I think from our point of view that we both kind of got interested in the game.
03:35Alex has kind of developed his interest and he's gradually got better
03:39and really started to become competitive and because we've built a team,
03:46we've got multiple players, we've got 15, 16 players in a squad for Wolverhampton,
03:51Alex has been able to play more events and really develop along the way as well
03:55and I think just the enjoyment there for us, really.
03:59And then as we started to grow, we started to go to more tournaments,
04:03both locally and across the country, and then we started going to international tournaments
04:08and that slowly led to the World Cup.
04:11Yeah, we played in Gibraltar and also in Rome for the country,
04:17so played for England at those events and that's just fantastic to get to that level
04:23and we're fortunate that Alex has managed to be picked for the England squad again
04:27for the forthcoming World Cup in a week's time, so really excited for that as well.
04:33My favourite achievement was when we went to play in the Redhill national team event
04:40and I played for the Wolves B team and we were playing against a very strong side
04:46and I had been subbed on in the second half to play their strongest player
04:52and we had delayed a couple of minutes late because one of us had to change teams
04:59and I had to defend and stop the other player from scoring to secure my team the win
05:06and because of us being delayed, everyone was watching us
05:11and everyone was crowding around the table to come and watch
05:14and I managed to keep them out and as the buzzer went, my teammate jumped from behind me
05:23and grabbed me and gave me a hug as we won and we all celebrated.
05:27I think probably my favourite moment of all is winning the National League Championship
05:35which is called the Wobbly League.
05:38Really, I suppose from my perspective, the real thing for us is the bond that we've got
05:47that has developed over playing these events and travelling to different events
05:52and meeting different people together.
05:54I think the one thing that I will mention is that the Sub-UTO group of all the players that go
06:01generally are fantastic and really welcoming and really supportive
06:06and I think everybody's got to know Alex well and really built him up as well and developed him
06:12so it's just such a great thing for us to be able to spend time together
06:17and really to watch Alex grow from my point of view.
06:21Some younger people of Alex's kind of age probably aren't quite as confident
06:28and he thinks he's not confident but trust me, he's doing really, really well.
06:33It's the greatest thing I could have asked for.
06:35It's the reason I keep playing and it's just the greatest thing ever
06:39to have someone like my dad to play with.
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