THIS IS A BOOK about the conscience of a man.
However, sport plays a part in these pages. The sport dealt with is the game that Europeans call football. When played in the United States, it is association football, or soccer. Since my story is set abroad, I have used the term “football” throughout.
Unlike American football, which is half football and half basketball and neither the one nor the other, the European sport is based upon kicking and passing along the ground. No player save the goalkeeper may touch the ball with his hands. The game is played by eleven men on each side. No substitutions are permitted. There are two halves of forty-five minutes each, and the ball used is round, not oval as in American football. It is a game enormously popular with the young, and draws immense crowds all over the world.
J.R.T.