"A lifetime of trophies, titles, losses, encounters, betrayals, and loneliness. Men’s lives lived according to the succession of games, weekend games, championships, the World Cup, driving the kids to practice sessions, a bedroom plastered with posters of famous players‒football is the meeting between the most humble and the most pretentious.
It is a sport with a ball that can be played anywhere, even barefoot. It is a billion‒euro industry that can make fortunes but also, like all businesses, is rife with corruption. It is insults but also a new kind of brotherhood. It is everything and its opposite, the best and the worst. It's my life. The past is synonymous with history, and history must be written."