Nicola “Niki” wants to tidy Natale with a myth: “Many combine Boccia with a canteen sport. They have the picture in their heads: there are lanes, a few older people who play, and there is a bottle of wine at the table next to it.” In the past, Boccia was not too far away in Italy. But the times are over if they have ever existed. “The game we play is very different.”