Viva il parroco! Il calcio d'oratorio per l'educazione giovanile nella Milano del boom economico

[Autom. eng. transl.] As the football historiography itself documents, the oratories were the first environments in which, in the immediate post-war period, football began to spread among the youth masses of our country, and especially in the northern regions. The Milanese reality, which the contribution deals with, represents a case of singular importance for the widespread presence of oratories in its territory and for the effects of the economic boom on the lifestyles of the inhabitants of the Lombard capital. Using archival and printed sources, the essay intends to analyze the ways in which football found space in the educational project of the Ambrosian oratories between the mid-forties and the late sixties, a period in which the processes of secularization of society became more evident and there were more and more profound changes in the consumerist sense of the sport most loved by Italians.