and a joy for the body that plays it-exquisitely rendered in the magical stories of Soccer in Sun and Shadow. The author’s longtime translator, Fried, ably conveys the lyricism and poetry of Galeano’s prose. Soccer is a game that bureaucrats try to dull and the powerful try to manipulate, but it retains its magic because it remains a bewitching game-a feast for the eyes. Galeano does not endeavor to provide a complete history of the game but rather, set pieces exploring great players, moments and themes in the development of the game he deeply loves but does not spare from criticism. Galeano tells of the suicide of Uruguayan player AbdÃ3orte, 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. Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. yet soccer, Galeano cautions, is a pleasure that hurts. Soccer in Sun and Shadow - Kindle edition by Galeano, Eduardo, Smith, Rory. All the greats-PelÃ(c)Di StÃ(c)no, Cruyff, EusÃ(c)o, Puskà Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer- have joyous cameos in this book. 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. One of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game 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.

Soccer in the sun and shadow