[Minorcompositions] Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer

[Minor Compositions]

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*Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an 
Accidental Footballer *
Paolo Sollier
Preface by Sandro Mezzadra

/Kicks, Spits, and Headers/ documents two years of football by a 
self-proclaimed accidental footballer. Coming of age during the student 
and worker revolt of the 1960s-1970s, the Italian ‘hot autumn,’ Paolo 
Sollier brought these countercultural energies and Marxist politics on 
to the football pitch, inadvertently becoming an icon along the way. 
Here he describes, in lucid and humorous prose, the challenges of trying 
make sense of and balance the tensions and contradictions between being 
a professional footballer and a political militant.

“A classic of radical football literature, finally available in English. 
This is a real treat that must not be missed. – Gabriel Kuhn, author of 
/Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics/

“Reading Kicks, Spits, and Headers today allows readers to explore from 
a specific viewpoint the landscape of politics and football in the 
turbulent 1970s in Italy. It also delivers us the fragmentary contours 
of a project that deserves to be translated onto the conditions of our 
present.” – Sandro Mezzadra, from the Preface

Bio: Paolo Sollier was a professional footballer in the 1970s, then 
manager in the amateur leagues. He is author of the bestseller /Calci, 
Sputi e Colpi di Testa/, first published in 1976 and here translated 
into English for the first time.

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