Matthias Sindelar, the Mozart of soccer

Le Regard Libre N° 34 - Nicolas Jutzet

Great heroes can sometimes be found on a simple green rectangle. Sindelar, precise in front of goal and courageous elsewhere, is certainly one of them. His story is that of a man who knew how to fight against the obvious, by assuming the importance of his status.

Soccer, the world's most popular sport. The people's sport par excellence. Played everywhere, all the time. Soccer is full of stories and anecdotes suggesting that, contrary to most of the condescending booing reserved for it by a section of the population who think they're elevating themselves by criticizing without understanding, it's about much more than the twenty-two puppets chasing a ball. We are dealing with a real social fact.

Some, like Georges Haldas, a silky-smooth passer of emotions, have written his legend. Albert Camus wrote: «Ce q