The world is a sphere. From Sunday this ball will have a circumference of 69 to a maximum of 70 centimeters and will not even weigh half a kilo. If this ball is then kicked, stopped, tormented, stroked, forked, decapitated, it begins to tell its stories. Without exception, they are always about the nitty-gritty. About the nitty gritty of every human being: about the dreams, the hopes, the fears, the plans, the victories, the defeats; about failure, success, emerging, doing, going under; about the grandiose, but also about the inferior. Hardly any other form of theater affects those who are sensitive to it as directly as football does.
