dimanche 20 novembre 2022

Fourty years ago: The 1982 WORLD CUP under the siege of Beirut

Time passed slowly and painfully in the early summer of 1982, the year of the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the occupation of Beirut.

The smell of death hung over the city, and daily life, between funeral processions, was more like a ruse against fear, against weariness and scarcity, waiting for the unknown or for the World Cup matches.