Quotable

"To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined, it is a religion."

- Paul Gardner, The New York Sun sports columnist

Quotable

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"If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game. In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bombs, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested."

- Stanley Rous (former President of FIFA), 1952