Amen Grassroots Football in Africa - Brossura

Jessica Hilltout

9780620466677: Amen Grassroots Football in Africa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0620466677 ISBN 13: 9780620466677

Casa editrice: Exhibitions Int, 2010

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This book pays homage to Africa. It is a tribute to the forgotten,to the majority. All the people who live and will remain in the shadow of the World Cup deserve to have a light shone on them, not just for their passion for the game, but more so for the fundamental energy and enthusiasm that shines through the way they live. Africa is a world like no other. The people have simple needs and huge hearts. They accept their lot in life with a supreme calmness. Yet underneath this there lies a passion for the festival, a reason to rejoice. These moments are centred around music and football. Often the two go hand in hand. Football is the one activity that costs nothing. Balls are made by hand. A piece of relatively flat land is always nearby; wood provides the goalposts. Africa is a land where the superfluous and superficial seem stripped away, a place where the fundamentals shine through. What makes it so special is that this vast continent accepts its fate with elegance and grace, head held high. Here, I was constantly amazed at the strength of humankind. Here, nothing is a problem, despite money always being one. Yes, Africans may be poor, but poverty does not bring misery. A state of mind alone can bring happiness.
In Africa, football is not a religion. But it is everything a religion should be. Every village in Africa has one open-air temple with goal posts at opposite ends and devoted followers in the middle. Football breathes happiness into sun-baked days and rain-soaked evenings. On a continent where not even the basics are taken for-granted, football is precious. And like everything that's truly precious, it's a necessity, like bread and water. Amen. So be it (Ian Brower)

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