A.S.D. Maccarese Calcio Giada Maccarese in 2002. According to the club, Giada was in fact means Gia. Da., the initials of the Chairman Dante Papili and his brother Giancarlo Papili. Prefix "dilettantistica" (stands for amateur) and suffix "calcio" (stands for football) were added to the denomination some times later, as A.S.D. Giada Maccarese Calcio. The club played in Eccellenza Lazio from 2000–01 season to . In the last season the club relegated. In 2012, the club also renamed to A.S.D. Maccarese Calcio. In the single season as A.S.D. Maccarese Calcio, the club finished as the 15th in the group A of 2012–13 Promozione
Rugby union in Italy first official rules of "calcio fiorentino" were recorded in 1580, although the game had been developing around Florence for some time before that date. The game involved teams of 27 kicking and carrying a ball in a giant sandpit set up in the Piazza Santa Croce in the centre of Florence, both teams aiming for their designated point on the perimeter of the sandpit. British communities brought rugby to Genoa between 1890 and 1895, with other games in Italy around 1909. The society that organised the first games dissolved soon after them. Italian rugby's traditional heartland consists of the small