Facce da Calcio contains an extraordinary series of 30 portraits of international football players of the World Cup 2006. Each picture is accompanied by the signature and a short quote from the footballer. We were actually always aware that it would be nearly impossible to portray the thirty best football players. Nonetheless, in a café in New York in November 2004 we decided to try anyhow. Two months later we set up our little studio and our plate camera for the first time in a stadium (...) A short time later, FIFA agreed to support the idea of our project. With that, a journey could begin that would take usthroughout Europe... Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer football players: Emmanuel Adebayor, Adriano, Asamoah, Michael Ballack, David Beckham, Gianluigi Buffon, Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, Luis Figo, Gennaro Gattuso, Alberto Gilardino, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Frank Lampard, Shunsuke Nakamura, Ruud van Nistelrooij, Pavel Nedved, Ji-sung Park, Lukas Podolski, Carles Puyol, Juan Roman Riquelme, Arjen Robben, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Andriy Shevchenko, Lilian Thuram, Fernando Torres, Zinedine Zidane.