Football in Sun and Shadow

by Eduardo Galeano

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Penguin Modern Classics

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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