When football meets sociology, it gives L'amour du maillot, a season in Ligue 2. This comic, based on a professional club study, should delight football fans from all walks of life.
It is the Sociorama collection that offers us this comic strip for the least unusual. Far from literal adaptations and tedious studies, L'amour du maillot, une saison en Ligue 2 offers us various "fictional" stories, strongly rooted in the reality of the field.
Tourval is a league 2 football club on a tight budget. Preparing for his new season of the France championship, the coach (already in office the previous season) will have to juggle between the ambitious young recruits and the old briscards of the club.
Written by Frédéric Rasera (sociologist who has worked a lot on football) and illustrated by Hélène Georges (cartoonist) L'amour du maillot, a season in Ligue 2, offers us an interesting experience. Indeed, the reader embodies in turn the coach, the players or even the supporters.
In addition to life on the pitch, all the daily topics of a club are discussed. Wages, uprooting, family life, lifestyle, injuries, blitzes… Everything goes there! The love of the shirt, a season in Ligue 2 offers us a more nuanced vision of the one that the general public can have of football.
Although this kind of work is primarily aimed at football fans, this comic could well appeal to the most curious among you. Then? Will you be tempted by this comic?
