Janette Hynes
Health | From schizophrenia to social anxiety, ‘football addresses it all’
As similar programs in Italy have discovered (see 12 Jan 07), a London-based football league presents “regular, constant, holistic treatment” for those afflicted with mental health problems ranging from schizophrenia to social anxiety (Angus Watson, “More Than a Game,” Financial Times, Mar 22). (Mar 25)
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Football is a public game of two groups of young men, on foot and unarmed, who pleasingly compete to move a medium-sized inflated ball from one end of the piazza to the other, for the sake of honor. (Giovanni Maria de' Bardi, Discourse on the Game of Florentine Football, 1580)
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