For him, football was freedom, like the one he expressed in music. In his residence in Kingston a field was built where he played with those who came to visit him
A man who says “Football is freedom” cannot help but be joyful and cannot help but recognize in football the essence of the game, in its primordial meaning, which is that – and anyone who started playing as a child knows this well – of experience freedom by kicking a ball. That man is Bob Marley. And everything in his music was joy, sharing, precisely: freedom.