Football Roots

Assouline - EAN : 9781649806857

ROBLES SAM

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EAN : 9781649806857

Paru le : 24 avr. 2026

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Détails

EAN13 : 9781649806857
Collection : CLASSICS
Editeur : Assouline
Date Parution : 24 avr. 2026
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 308
Format : H:330 mm L:250 mm E:50 mm
Poids : 2.898kg
Interdit de retour : Retour interdit

Résumé

Résumé : This is a story of childhood, a story of play and dreams and freedom and community and escape. This is the story of football. Football isn’t born in a massive stadium or under bright lights. It is born on the streets, in parking lots, on mud and dirt. It is learned without bias of gender or race. It is practiced without shoes or goals.

For Football Roots: The Spirit of the Game, photographer Sam Robles embarked on a ten-year journey, documenting local children at play, across eighteen countries, including Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Portugal, Ghana, Turkey, Egypt, Georgia, England, Qatar, France, Chile, Nepal, and Morocco, to capture the essence of football and the purest love of the game. The process required Robles to gain access to hidden, sometimes dangerous neighborhoods, often without speaking the language or knowing where he was headed, and then build a rapport with the native children to earn their trust. However, the universal language of football prevailed. He would show images of famous players he had photographed, from Pelé to Cristiano Ronaldo, and more. Robles would then show the kids pictures of themselves playing the sport, and this connection would capture their attention. Despite the hardships many of the kids face, the game is a unifying experience, o!ering respite from everyday struggles—a chance to just be a kid.

With contributions from Antony, Endrick, Adriano Imperador, Giovanna Waksman, and Kauan Basile, the global nature of these formative years has proven to shape greatness and helped mold many icons of the sport. Brazilian football legend Marta shared her personal experience with the subject matter in the book’s foreword. Some of the kids Robles met may become professional soccer players, but that is not why they play. They are not driven by fame or money. They simply love o jogo bonito, le beau jeu, das schöne Spiel, el hermoso juego, the beautiful game.
Biographie : Sam Robles grew up in São Paulo, where the streets were loud and football was constant. Playing the game himself, he learned early how a body moves through space—how a player shifts weight, and how a moment opens and closes. Long before he picked up a camera, he understood the rhythm of the game from the inside. For more than twenty years, that instinct has shaped the way he sees the world. Whether working on large-scale productions or photographing solo around the world, Sam’s approach remains the same: Find the light, strip away the noise, and wait for the real moment—whether his subject is a professional athlete, a model, or a stranger met along the way. For the last decade, he has followed a mission around the globe: to photograph football at its roots. From improvised dirt fields to crowded alleys, he seeks out the open ground where the game is still played for the pure love of it. Sam Robles’s work can be found at www.samrobles.com