Galeano tells of the suicide of Uruguayan player Abd n Porte, who shot himself in the center circle of the Nacional's stadium of the Argentine manager who wouldn't let his team eat chicken because it would bring bad luck and of scandal-riven Diego Maradona whose real crime, Galeano suggests, was always "the sin of being the best." yet soccer, Galeano cautions, "is a pleasure that hurts." Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified the rules that we still play by today and to Latin America, where the "crazy English" spread the game only to find it creolized by the locals.Īll the greats-Pel, Di St fano, Cruyff, Eus bio, Pusk s, Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer- have joyous cameos in this book. In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. One of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game Galeano concludes that soccer is a pleasure that hurts, and the music of a victory that gets the dead dancing is akin to the clamorous silence of an empty stadium, where one defeated fan, unable to move, sits in the middle of the immense stands, alone.” Review In this new edition, which encompasses Galeano's reflections on the 2010 World Cup, tragedy spins a continuous thread through these pages remember Andres Escobar, the Colombian defender, whose own goal lost his country a game in the 1994 World Cup and was subsequently gunned down in Medellin? but where there is shadow there is also the bright sunlight of joy and beauty, of the Italian striker whose shorts in the run up to a penalty kick in the 1938 World Cup fell down around his knees he pulled them back up, and with the goalkeeper and stadium in pleats of laughter, scored the goal that saw Italy to the final.
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.'" And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it." Readers all over the world have been drawn to the hundreds of magical stories that Galeano conjures and to his confession, Years have gone by and I've finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer.
Eduardo Galeano's Soccer in Sun and Shadow has established itself over the last decade as one of the most celebrated books on the world's greatest and most popular game.
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