Dimensions
303 x 255 x 22mm
Wherever you are on earth, it's only a matter of time before you will come across children playing football. Across every continent, football is a common language and a culture shared: a joy, a passion, an escape and an affirmation of identity understood and celebrated. For this unique collaborative project, football writer Tom Watt talked to over forty of the world's top footballers about growing up and falling in love with the game: Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Gilberto Silva; England's David James and Australia's Mark Schwarzer; Italy's Fabio Cannavaro; France's Franck Ribery; Japan's Shunsuke Nakamura and the world's most famous player, David Beckham, to name just a few. A BEAUTIFUL GAME tells their stories, in the players' own words; stories of boys who would grow up to be heroes for a new generation of young players and fans. They look back to their childhoods: to their family homes, to their schoolrooms, to the friends they grew up with and to the places where they first played the game that has made them stars.
