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Football, the most popular sport in the world, is truly a global culture today with its own rules, ethics, and logic. It combines passion, love, joy, sorrow, violence, strategy, conflict, and technique. It is a spectacle with broad social participation, unlike anything else.
Intellectuals, such as the French academic Jean d'Ormesson, have described it as 'the new opiate of the people'. The author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán in an interview with Evenement du Jeudi said: 'football today is a religion'. A religion with a clear ritual, without dogma, capable of uniting diverse individuals, beyond class stereotypes and cultural beliefs, while at the same time dividing speakers of the same language and compatriots, with the 'round goddess' as the apple of discord.
The call to the male population every four years with the institution of the Mundial, as it has come to be known, is one of the most significant events in modern times with political, cultural, and social implications. Football encapsulates the role of the male gender in the human species, as it has been defined in all cultural traditions and historical periods as hunter, warrior, merchant, knight, and poet. It can also combine almost all forms of art.
The French footballer Cantona famously said that Brazil's second goal in the final of the 1970 Mundial resembles a line from Rimbaud.
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- Authors
- Giorgos Skampardonis, Ilias Lagios, Vasilis Kalamaras, THanasis CHeimonas, Alexis Stamatis, Alexandros M. Asonitis, Stefanos Dandolos, Xenofon Mprountzakis, Minas Vintiadis, Dimitris Varvarigos, Michalis Spegos, Giannis Triantis
- Publisher
- Mpartzoulianos I. Ilias
- Publishers
- Bartzoulianos I. Ilias
- Type
- Prose
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 137
- Release Date
- 6/2010
- Publication Date
- 2010
- Dimensions
- 17x22 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789606817359
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