<nettime> Kicks, Spits, and Headers. The Autobiographical Reflections of an Accidental Footballer

[Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen@autonomedia.org>]

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

Now available for ordering and/or free download…

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.

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1093

Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions site.

Sollier’s book is discussed in episode 2 of the Minor Compositions 
podcast, which is a conversation with Gabriel Kuhn (author of Soccer vs. 
the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics) about the 
relationship between radical politics and sport: 
https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.


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