The Ball With El-Salama

Football never leaves the spectator calm, either sad or happy. Behind every simple picture that causes sadness or joy, there is always a bigger and deeper story. This program tries to reveal the hidden part of the picture and the real causes of feelings .. Why do we rejoice and why do we grieve .. Really!

The 1994 World Cup was linked to the famous murder of Colombian national team defender Andreas Escobar. In this episode, Dr. Bashir tells the story of Colombian football in a world ruled by Pablo Escobar!

Dider Drogba … The episode tells the story of the most important player in the history of Côte d'Ivoire, who grew up in France away from his country, which was suffering from difficult circumstances that developed into a civil war. Dr. Bashir tells us the story of Drogba, and how Côte d’Ivoire’s rise to the 2006 World Cup played a pivotal role in stopping the civil war there.

In 1966, North Korea qualified for the World Cup in England for the first time in its history, and fell into the death squad with two-time champion Italy, the bronze holder of the previous edition and the fearsome Soviet Union team. How can the English public help the submerged North Korean team qualify from that group?

At the 1986 World Cup, Argentina faced England in the famous match in which Maradona scored two famous goals; the hand of God, which he scored with his hand, and the most beautiful goal in the history of the World Cup when he elusived all the opponent's players and scored. Who is the real Maradona: the deceiver who deceived everyone or the magician who dazzled everyone?

This is an episode about the Senegal national team, which defeated France in the opening match of the 2002 World Cup... But this does not matter; The important thing is Bruno Metsu, the white-skinned man with African heart, who was behind this victory.

The last episode... Zinedine Zidane says that his career has 14 red cards, of which 12 were because one of the opponent's players succeeded in getting him out of his calm. Zizou at ten years old in 1961