The insert in the Sport Italia newspaper of February 1947 was created to help football fans who wanted to try their hand at the betting slip.
The term "Totocalcio" was used in public for the first time to identify the game in the booklet which contained data and statistics on the first half of the championship and on the football tote.
Despite the name "Totocalcio" on the 1946/47 season slips, the game was still called "Sport Italia - Predictions Competition" or "Sport Italia - Football Tote".
In common jargon the game was "the betting slip game" or the "Sisal game", a definition that inspired the famous phrases "playing Sisal" and "winning at Sisal".
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