| Italian director delves into deeper side of soccer - "I love the idea of soccer as a team sport...." |
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| on 01 Dec 2008 | |
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By Paul Virgo ROME (Reuters) - Like most of his compatriots, Oscar-winning Italian director Gabriele Salvatores loves soccer. He can often be seen at the San Siro stadium watching his beloved team Inter Milan while the football-match-in-the-desert scene is one of the most celebrated parts of his 1989 breakthrough movie Marrakech Express. But Salvatores, who won the 1991 best foreign film Academy Award with Mediterraneo -- the story of a motley group of Italian soldiers stranded on a Greek island at the end of World War II -- believes soccer can be much more than just a game.
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