What’s important is to play: the values of sport

One of the greatest champions in the history of Italian football, an anthropologist specialising in football and a TV sports presenter discuss the values, emotions and feelings generated by sport. Sport, especially football, presents an extraordinary opportunity for education, fraternity and knowledge. Sport can be a training ground for humility and beauty, an exercise in humanity and cultural growth. However, sport can arouse a strange self-destructive instinct, revealing the worst side of our natures: violence, racism and dodgy business dealings.

Through the story and experience of a champion we discover that football speaks about us all, it knows how to channel and elicit emotions and can enrich our culture. It offers a chance for social betterment; it combines drama, legend, the joy of an entire country and continual disappointment. Above all, it is an extraordinary tool for awareness and the formation of an identity, both on an individual level as well as for nations too.