René Burri - Football, Rio de Janeiro, Ipanema Beach, 1958
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Nick Hedges, Boys playing football near the power station, Bradford, 1969
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John Sturrock, Boys playing football, Sighthill Cemetery, Glasgow, 1976
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Supporters at a football match between Belgium and the Netherlands, Antwerp, 1913
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Augusto Cabrita, Football Ballet, Portugal, 1960
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My people, as in I'm a Lebanese Druze:
"Druze man in Lebanon plays football" by Samer Mohdad
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In the London Zoo in 1939, boy plays soccer with baby giant panda
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And probably my favorite in this set:
Jecko Vassilev, Winter Soccer, Bulgaria, 1971
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Beautiful!
Have you ever seen Abderrahmane Sissako’s film Timbuktu? It includes the most memorable football sequence, and your thread reminds me of it. Here’s a clip, though it really needs to be watched in context m.youtube.com/watch?v=AveLBh
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Oh no, I haven't. Looks wonderful. I've played on fields like that. I've played on better fields but grass was always a luxury!
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Watching that clip again, I wonder if Sissako had seen that Vassilev image. The donkey feels like a citation!
I think grass has also been the exception rather than the norm for me. Lots of US "turf" (it's not turf) recently, and before that mud in the UK, dust in Malawi
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I think Sissako probably did as well. It's too good of a tribute!
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