The day the best football player in the world played in the mud of a village for the sake of a child, the man whom football saved from a genocide, a child who sees with the eyes of the soul, the first female star of football who "could do everything men can do," a dog that became the symbol of a team... These and many more well-known and, mostly, unknown stories about the planet's favorite game, which, despite what you may have heard, is not just 22 lads chasing a ball on some grass.
Stories from 20 different countries take us on a journey through the magic of football and illustrate how it touches the lives of millions of people. Argentina in 1978 was combined with a dictatorship and an event filled with many gray areas, unfair to an outstanding national team with players like Kempes, Luque, Pasarella, Hausmann, and Ardiles. The latter has indeed said a great phrase: "It hurt us very much when we learned that we were a means of distraction for the people while atrocities were happening."
Coach Menotti adds: "I was used. Unfortunately, the use of the sport by the powerful is as old as our world." Football is intertwined with society. It can influence it, change it, but it can also be exploited. That is why it needs people who will serve it with love.
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- Author
- El Sombrero
- Publisher
- Dioptra
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Release Date
- 2/2022
- Publication Date
- 2022
- Dimensions
- 14x20.5 cm
- Award
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9789606535901
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