Friday 12th November at 4.45 pm – Fondazione Riccardo Catella – first floor
Calcio / Soccer
Gral Film / T-Film
CROATIA 2019, 52 min
Director/Regista: Tomislav Zaja
Editing/Montaggio: Vanja Sirucek
Photos/Foto: Jasenko Rasol
Soundtrack/Colonna Sonora: Vjeran Salamon
Producer/Produttore: Tomislav Zaja
Ivan Gudelj is the youngest captain in the history of Yugoslavia national football team, the best young player of Europe in 1979, and one of the ideal 11 at the 1982 World Cup in Spain whose career suddenly stopped because of the Hepatitis B virus that ruined him. It is a story of an exceptional man who lost everything because of the illness, but eventually won his life’s game. How can you continue your life when the whole world collapses around you like a house of cards? How do you flip the score in a game that’s already lost? Is there life after football?