POOLS 'He has staked a lottery and did very badly! because it could be one of the 225 multimillionaires to which Totocalcio distributed in these last 3 weeks Half a Billion awards'. The public competition with prizes combined with the predictions of the Italian football championship; designed by Massimo Della Pergola; Fabio Jegher and Geo Molo and launched in 1946 by the company SISAL; since 1948 is managed by the Autonomous Administration of State Monopolies (AAMS); and its revenues contribute to the financing of CONI. Advertising exit to the Italian press in 1948