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Football in Sun and Shadow

by Eduardo Galeano

Book Details

Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0241355354
ISBN-13 9780241355350
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date May 3rd, 2018
Print length 272 Pages
Weight 204 grams
Dimensions 19.70 x 13.10 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification: Social & cultural history History of sport Football (Soccer, Association football)
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'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic. 'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker

''Football is a pleasure that hurts''

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a ''great pagan mass''. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.

''The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins'' Guardian

''Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia'' When Saturday Comes

''Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers'' New Yorker

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