Sport and geopolitical conflict have been linked throughout history. Examples abound. The 1936 Olympic Games, for instance, are a striking example of how sports allowed participants to challenge the political certainties of their time.
On many occasions, football has symbolically gone beyond the green rectangle of the pitch, where 22 players compete. In 1986, for example, one of modern footballer’s greatest players, Diego Maradona, “single-handedly” beat Gary Lineker’s England team, as many commentators described it.
Football has been around throughout the last two World Wars, not only as a means of reconciliation and entertainment, but also as an instrument of propaganda. Whatever the period, the round ball played a...
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