Girls replace ball boys for 1st time in Serie A game

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NAPLES, Italy - No ball boys were chosen for Napoli's game against Torino on Sunday. Instead, for the first time in Serie A history, all the ball gatherers were female.

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NAPLES, Italy – No ball boys were chosen for Napoli’s game against Torino on Sunday. Instead, for the first time in Serie A history, all the ball gatherers were female.

While this has never happened before in Italy’s top flight, a soccer match in the Italian third division had only ball girls earlier this season.

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