The exhilaration of those improvised steps, back heels, feints, step overs, bicycle kicks – in all their impulsive, if well rehearsed, tricks and turns and tumbles.Įarly on Galeano declares his disillusionment with the modern game: it has been destroyed, he believes, by the evils of commercialism, It’s a profitable spectacle: “a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.” This is all in keeping with his Latin American left-wing credentials, of course. The daring and sheer beauty of a player who knows his relationship with the ball (that “crazy feeling”), who loves and dares it to do better, who turns on it and sends it far away, watching it take flight.
It sounds dry, and there is nothing dry about football. Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano He shares my deep love for the Beautiful Game. Since the English Premier League is well under way, I thought I would share this review I wrote a couple of years ago of a delightful book by a great Uruguayan writer and left-wing intellectual, Eduardo Galeano. Some of you may have missed my book reviews.
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