The poet Sarhan guards the goal...a reading of the den and formation tactics

In his two synonymous essays, “The Goalkeeper” and “The Lineup,” the Moroccan poet Saad Sarhan opens up unusual cognitive horizons that fall within his amusing series, “Doctor Football.” The writer does not deal with football as a mere public entertainment that ends with the referee’s whistle, but rather deconstructs its structure as a sociological and philosophical phenomenon worthy of study and criticism, giving the game symbolic and intellectual dimensions that elevate it to the ranks of scientific theses.