"The Game Without Limits" can be read by both knowledgeable and inexperienced readers as a wonderful introduction to a global history of football. Christos Sotirakopoulos, a cultured and critical sports journalist, categorizes his stories as a kind of "memories from the past," presenting a specific timeline as a narrative milestone in each story. Thus, the reader realizes with pleasure that this popular sport has a rich historical background, a beginning that is lost in time, and a continuous flow.

At the same time, this exciting reading takes the reader to the major events of recent history. Indeed, there is no football history in "The Game Without Limits" that is not indirectly or directly involved with "great" history: all class conflicts, every religious, ideological, political, and economic dispute is reflected on the field, not in miniature, as one might hastily argue, but rather in all the intensity of the passions fostered by each specific circumstance. The author's stories vividly and dramatically capture this social/cultural element.

The book has - it could not not have - immense significance for the football enthusiast, the fan who loves not only their team but the sport itself. And this is primarily because the book showcases, in slow play back, the best moments of world football. However, the real importance of these narratives lies in the fact that the most significant figures in football are captured by the skillful sportscaster at the most famous moment of their careers: that magical moment when a goal, a play, an incident on the field or in the stands becomes a legend, or simply becomes permanently and irrevocably part of history.

And indeed, how many fans know that, for example, the Celtic-Rangers rivalry stems from the fierce religious conflict that has been going on for centuries in Scotland? How many know the historical relationship that connects English football with the Basque Country? How many know that until 1952, the Indian national team played in international football tournaments barefoot and that the Indian federation decided to make the use of shoes mandatory when, at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, most players suffered frostbite? Finally, who knows that the goal scored by the center forward of the East German national team, Jürgen Sparwasser, in the match against the West German team in the 1974 World Cup, saved his life when six years later he attempted to escape as a political refugee to West Germany?

In the end, the enjoyable book by the award-winning sports journalist and author Christos Sotirakopoulos proves a great truth, the reality on which the most popular sport in the world is based: that football is not just 22 people chasing a ball. Compared to any other sport, football excels in massiveness and participation because it involves, in one way or another, the entire society, the entire era, history itself. That is why in the captivating "Game Without Limits," the ultimate protagonist is the anonymous fan, the very person who in the everyday life of existence is the subject of history.