The Beautiful Game

The Beautiful Game

The phrase "The Beautiful Game" as a synonym for football was first coined by Didi, a Brazilian superstar footballer. The Brazilian Portuguese expression "Joga Bonito" (to "play beautifully") parallels this phrase. In 1977 Pelé, one of football's greatest superstars, named his autobiography "My Life and the Beautiful Game". The book's dedication read "I dedicate this book to all the people who have made this great game the Beautiful Game".

The phrase has now entered the language as a colourful description for association football and as such was used as part of the title for the 13-part series charting the history of the game: "History of Football: The Beautiful Game".

The term echoes J.C. Thring's description of the rules he helped develop for football in the middle of the 19th century, as The Simplest Game, which lead to the development of the rules of association football.

ee also

*"The Beautiful Game (1999 film)", known in the United States as "The Match"
*"The Beautiful Game (musical)"
*"The Beautiful Game (album)"
*"The Beautiful Game (podcast)"
*Beautiful Game Studios
*" [http://stillbeautiful.wordpress.com/ The Beautiful Game (Football Blog)]
*" [http://www.beautifulgame.com The Beautiful Game Search Engine] "


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