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So Foot 80’s
Football champagne and evenings glitter
(2013)
190 pages
Solar Editions
(340x250x22)mm
Weight: 1kg420

The 80s are the transition from a classy football inherited from the utopias of 68 (Tele Santana's Brazil) to a football that wallows in the vulgarity of Berlusconi, money and glitter and personal success. In the background: "politics" (end of the Soviet bloc and big Eastern teams like Steaua Bucharest, Dinamo kyiv...), violence (rise of hooliganism with Heysel, skinhead culture...), media (all-powerful TV, it's the era of Téléfoot, the creation of Canal+, Berlusconi in Italy and in France with the late Cinq...), and cock-a-doodle-doo: Platini's Blues are the first big French team to start winning (France 82, 84, 86) Examples of topics covered: the Berlusconi legend, joint interview Zavarov/Dassaev, Kop of Boulogne story, the Socrates Legend, the "Quinta del Buitre" legend: Michel, Butragueno, Martin Vasquez, Sanchis, Pardeza (Real Madrid), Rumenigge 82 and terrifying Germany... But also: rivalry