ART-FOOTBALL

«More than that, Brazilians invented a flamboyant, thrilling and graceful style that has set an unattainable benchmark for the rest of the world.

Britons call it the ‘beautiful game’.

Brazilians call it ‘futebol-arte’, or art-football»

                                                                                        

 

 

 

Scene no 19: Subbuteo Table Soccer. The Jules Rimet Trophy (C 119), Standard Goal and three Continental Match Balls (C 127). Brazil Subbuteo Team, World Cup Winners (Subbuteo Sports Games Ltd). Brazil, World Cup 1982 (50, C 100, Subbuteo Sports Games Ltd), Brasile 1970 (Subbuteo la leggenda, Fabbri Editori, Licensed by Hasbro).

The phrase: Text from the Introduction of FUTEBOL The Brazilian Way of Life, by Alex Bellos.

DON QUIXOTE

«But Don Quixote, supported by his intrepid heart, leaped on Rocinante, and bracing his buckler on his arm, brought his pike to the slope, and said, “Friend Sancho, know that I by Heaven’s will have been born in this our iron age to revive in it the age of gold, or the golden as it is called; I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant deeds are reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the Round Table... »

 

 

 

 

Scene no 18: Don Quixote (Papo toys) and behind him Sancho (Papo toys), under a beech tree (Schleich toys).

The text passage: From The History of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.