Calcio e martello. Storie e uomini del calcio socialista

«Socialism, imagined, imaginary, real and the game of football. With its successful losers and champions, perhaps drowned in their weaknesses or in the inevitability of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The poverty of the means and the undeniable splendor of the ends. The Warsaw Pact and its offshoots linked to Comecon gave the Cold War generation violent emotions and stories to pass on, between regime naivety and infinite talent. Puskas’ Hungary, Lato’s Poland, Lev Yashin’s USSR, but also Sparwasser, Sollier and the Corinthian Democracy, because internationalism reigned supreme where you least expected it. Fabio Belli and Marco Piccinelli in these pages tell us about proletarian emancipations that have only been touched upon, but which for decades have made millions of people dream, both east and west of the Iron Curtain.»