Here are Nobel Laureates reimagined as soccer players with generalized positions and pseudo rankings based on the very scientific study that is me deciding what I feel and putting it in.
Click on a picture to read about the laureate and the rationale.
Matching Great Writers with Soccer Styles
Class of 2023: Bjornsterne Bjornson, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Giorgios Seferikis, William Golding, JM Coetzee (1st non European) and Jon Fosse
And into the beyond..
Class of 2024: Frederic Mistral, Jose Echegarry, Wladyslaw Reymont, Johannes Jennsen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jaroslav Siefert, Elfriede Jelinek, and Han Kang.
As we add more and more from the deep stacks of your library…
Class of 2025: Henryk Sienkewicz (1905), Bertha Von Sutter (Peace Nobel 1905), George Bernard Shaw (1925), Gabriela Mistral (1945), Mikhail Sholokov (1965), Claude Simon (1985) Harold Pinter (2005), Sully Prudhomme (1901) and Laszlo Krasznahorkai (2025).
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