The story that filmmaker Ryan Scott Warren is telling begins as Matthews was traveling to an exhibition tour in Johannesburg. “He was driving from the airport, and he saw little boys playing soccer with a ball made out of a plastic bags. They were doing his signature move. So when he stopped the car to get out, these little boys in Soweto knew immediately who he was,” says Supervising Producer Mitch Horn. “He had no idea how far his fame had reached, and was really taken.”
The triumph culminated in 1975 prior to the Soweto riots. “He put together a team called Stan’s Men to go to Brazil and train with their national team,” says Horn.
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