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Philippe Costantini
1996 - 52 min - Vidéo - Couleur - France
From January 1995, to September 1996, a French man, Arsène Wenger, 47 years old, who found fame at Monaco, coached the Japanese football team "Grampus Eight" of Nagoya.
For him, it was the discovery of another culture and of another psychology. A tremendous wager also : to succeed in a society which discovered professional football barely three years ago. The infatuation for this new form of competition would reveal, according to the sociologists, a new state of the Japanese spirit. As opposed to sumo, a thousand-year old traditional sport, and as opposed to baseball, the sport of the American conquerors and which arrived after the war, football would announce a second modernization of the country, the birth of a Japan which is open and, very simply, unrestricted.
Author-Director : Philippe Costantini
Delegate Producer : Carmin films
Broadcasting Co-producer : France 3 Alsace
Broadcasting Sale : ARTE GEIE