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Football academy teaches morals

Albert Camus, the existentialist philosopher and goalkeeper, said that everything he knew about life, he owed to football. In that spirit, a football academy has been set up in France to give young goalkeepers from around the world moral guidance as well as football coaching. Former footballer Pat Nevin and Musa Okwonga, author of A Cultured Left Foot: The Eleven Elements of Footballing Greatness, discuss how in an age where footballers have become associated with greed and bad behaviour, the game can offer young people a moral philosophy.

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