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Football nostalgia, heroics and Belgian surrealism in a delightfully recognizable photography book.

For years, photographer Jurgen Vantomme photographed the most unusual football fields in Belgium. He regularly focuses his camera on the football players on the field, but is far more often interested in the environment in which the players play the game. From three old men cheering from an almost empty stand to an Anton Pieck-like football match in the snow.

As a passionate groundhopper he visited the most nostalgic and photogenic stadiums where he watched hundreds of football games, from the Bosuil in Antwerp to the lowest divisions of amateur football. For years, he published in popular football magazines, such as Sport/Voetbalmagazine, 11 Freunde, So Foot, La Gazetta Dello Sport, FourFourTwo...