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Brunilde Amodeo, May 1933 (Photo: Private collection, Francesco Bacigalupo).

Brunilde Amodeo

Captain of a pioneering Italian football team in 1933.

Armand Swartenbroeks, captain of Belgium, 1928 (Photo: Dutch National Archive).

Armand Swartenbroeks

Playing football to help and cure other people.

Otto Fritz ‘Tull’ Harder

Player who commanded Hannover-Ahlem, a Nazi concentration camp.

Ruud Gullit; Dutch national team 1988 (Photo: Dutch National Archive).

Ruud Gullit

Rising above humble origins to become an outspoken multicultural star.

Dutch goalkeeper Leo Halle.

Leo Halle

Dutch national goalkeeper who stayed away from playing Germany in 1934.

Hughie Gallacher, 1926 (Photo: Queen of the South).

Hughie Gallacher

From mining to a goal scoring, but ending in misery and suicide.

Gabriel Hanot in 1919 (Photo: National Library of France / Public Domain).

Gabriel Hanot

Player who set out a path for the development of football.

Private album of Lotte Specht (Photo: Beves Welt / Axel Hoffmann).

Lotte Specht

Pioneering women’s football in Germany in 1930.

Portrait circa 1905, National Portrait Gallery (Photo: Alexander Bassano, 1829–1913).

Arthur, Lord Kinnaird

Arthur, Lord Kinnaird was a footballing Pioneer.

Italian footballer and partisan Bruno Neri (Source: Almanacco Resistente).

Bruno Neri

Football player in resistance to fascism.

Vikash Dhorasoo demonstrating pension reform in Paris, January 9, 2020 (Photo: Manuel Menal).

Vikash Dhorasoo

An advocate for equality and social issues.

Alex Villaplane.

Alex Villaplane

He captained France in the 1930 World Cup, but was executed in 1944 as a war criminal.

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