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10:01October 20, 2015
In post-war Italy, football became the battleground for an ideological struggle between religion and communism. Fabien Archambault (University of Limoges) explains how the Catholic Church promoted the game to increase its own influence in Italian society and out-maneuver the Italian Communist Party.
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