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Outside the laws of life

Even more than being the king of sports, football is the king of games. All the great games involve a ball, whether it is tennis or billiards. In life the ball is what is outside the laws of life … Football owes its universality to how it has been able to maximise the effect of the ball. As well as its main principle, that of development and independence, a team provides the ball with an engine of 11 mischief-makers and 11 imaginations.

Philippe Villemus, La Gloire du football (The Glory of Football) (Ed. Eyrolles 2006)

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