In every field of human activity and inquiry, there are certain special reference points — human creations that stand out as exceptional within their broader…
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Football is art, a beautiful popular art, an art of the masses. Just as the squares once filled for the commedia dell’arte, so too do the crowds flock to the football theatres in the centuries that followed. And the Dottor emerged from those stories to tell his new stories of football.
Football is full of clichés which, although they make sense, never truly reflect their full depth when spoken aloud. One of them is that “a…
The history of football is lost in the depths of humanity’s historical existence, with the search for the reasons why our species became involved with…
The years after 2020 were not like the ones before—everything had changed, and so had we. We were no longer the small and wronged; we…
In 1944, Greece was liberated from the Nazi yoke by the EAM and its armed wing, ELAS. On the 12th of October 1944, the last…
In the 1950s, the world—and therefore football—was rediscovering the state it had left behind before the war. Economies were booming, but the evolution of all…
Greek football may not boast either grandiose moments that one cannot find in the footballing history of the rest of the world, nor such vast…
Football is, at its core, an athletic phenomenon, but by extension, also a social one. This dual nature often makes it difficult—or even ethically ambiguous—for…
On the 3rd of November 1903, the Anglo-American Commercial College of Rosario founded its football club, thus breathing life into the dream of its founder,…
On the 1st of November 1897, Belgium was under the rule of King Leopold II, one of the most brutal colonizers ever to walk the…