2024-04-03 21:03:20
On Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30, 2024, at the “angry Portrait” in Ioannina, there will be a presentation of the book by “Dioptra” publications written by the Ioannina scientist Vassilis Kostakis entitled: “Changing the world with a ball”.
In the introductory note, Makis Papasimakopoulos states: “It is a book that if you love football you should read it. Because it might give you something very rare these days. An unexpectedly strong and clearly insane hope. That the match is not over until we hear the final whistle. And that until that moment everything is played out. Even if you are behind in the score, even if you play with fewer players, even if everything is against you”.
On the website of the publishing house “Dioptra” it is mentioned about the book: Can football become a force of liberation or is it ultimately the “opium of the people”, which, usually, puts you to sleep and moreover, not infrequently, acquires you? This book unravels the thread of an alternative football, and not only, philosophy. It shows how we can create the football (and world) we want, within the football (and world) we want to overcome. Because it’s time to strike back. For the big twist.
Questions not answered in this book:
How did football start and what is its symbolism?
Was football more innocent and spectacular in the past?
Which tactics lead to more impressive goals?
Questions answered in this book:
Why do some athletes make millions while educators and scientists do not?
How does football affect global inequalities and the climate crisis?
How will our children learn, through football, that the game concerns them and not the victory? Should school be about knowledge and not grades? In their lives, relationships with their fellow human beings and nature and not money should concern them?
When you lose 4-0 and it’s 89′, it turns… the football game, but also the fight for a better tomorrow and a sustainable future?
Albert Camus declared: “What I know about ethics I learned on football fields and theater stages.” Millions of people believe that soccer is not just a game where you chase a ball. This book goes one step further and dreams of a better football, which can even change the world. Because, as Bob Marley used to say, “football is freedom”.
The author Vassilis Kostakis, born in Gianniotis, is a professor at the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia, a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Harvard University in Boston.