Photo of the Day: The Sacred Game?

By: Laurie | February 7th, 2008

I can’t remember the original source of this photo, but I fell in love with it the first time I saw it and saved it. It was even my computer wallpaper for awhile. There’s just something about the way it juxtaposes the everyday and the sacred that I find interesting.

It was part of photo collection, somewhere, that looked at the role of soccer/football around the world. If you know where it came from, leave the info in the comments and I’ll amend the post. Otherwise, just enjoy.





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  • Gianfranco |  February 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm

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    Great stuff Laurie, definetly a wall hanging worthy.

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  • fabio |  February 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am

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    yahhh great shot
    the one that u mentioned that you used as your wallpaper, was it the size of the one available on ur site or is there a bigger one??
    if so can u post the URL please

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  • Ehsan |  February 9th, 2008 at 8:22 am

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    I’d really like a bigger version of this…

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  • Laurie |  February 9th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

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    Ehsan, I was so curious about where I found this that I went searching. I remembered that one of the others in the collection was monks watching a game, so I did a search for “monks watching football” and came up with this site, which did also have the above picture. Many, many, many other fascinating footy pictures as well.

    You’d probably have to pay for the high-res version. How much I have no idea. But here’s the link to the site. http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=Mod_ViewBoxInsertion.ViewBoxInsertion_VPage&R=2TYRYDO4MVRP&RP=Mod_ViewBox.ViewBoxThumb_VPage&CT=Album

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  • Ehsan |  February 9th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

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    Laurie, thank you so much! That gallery is exactly what I was looking for to start my wall art collection. A framed copy of that would look beautiful in the TV room. Now if I could only figure out how to buy something from their website.

    Posted from United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates

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