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Soccer in Sun and Shadow

One of the greatest, magical and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game?FINALLY BACK IN PRINT AND FULLY UPDATED!

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  • "Futbol"
  • "El fútbol a sol y sombra"@it
  • "El fútbol a sol y sombra"

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  • "One of the greatest, magical and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game?FINALLY BACK IN PRINT AND FULLY UPDATED!"@en
  • ""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. 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. All the greats-Pele;, Di Ste;fano, Cruyff, Euse;bio, Pusk, Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer- have joyous cameos in this book. yet soccer, Galeano cautions, "is a pleasure that hurts." Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. Galeano tells of the suicide of Uruguayan player 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." 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... and a joy for the body that plays it"-exquisitely rendered in the magical stories of Soccer in Sun and Shadow"--"
  • "In a sequence of elegiac and deliciously droll observations, the distinguished Latin American writer, Eduardo Galeano here reflects on mortality and immortality in the world's greatest game. Tragedy spins a continuous thread through these pages."
  • "One of Sports Illustrated ’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time—a history of soccer as mesmerizing as the game itself The beautiful game deserves a beautiful book, and Eduardo Galeano—one of Latin America’s most acclaimed authors—has written it. From Aztec champions sacrificed to appease the gods, to the goals that were literally scored into wooden posts in Victorian England, to Spain’s victory in the 2010 World Cup, Soccer in Sun and Shadow is a history of the sport unlike any other. Galeano portrays the irruption of South American soccer that made the game sublime: the elegant, mischievous, joyful style based on deft dribbling, close passes, and quick changes in rhythm, perfected by poor black children who had no toy but a rag ball. He describes the superstitions that vex players, the martyrdom of referees, the exquisite misery of fans, the sad denouement of stars past their prime. Striding across the pages are players born with the ball—and entire nations—at their feet: Arthur Friedenreich, the son of a German immigrant and a black washerwoman, who first brought Brazilian style from the slums into the stadiums; Brazil’s Garrincha, whose body, warped by polio, could make the ball dance; and the Dutch great Ruud Gullit, who campaigned against apartheid on and off the pitch. And, of course, Beckenbauer, Pelé, Cruyff, and Maradona, a man blessed with “the hand of God” and a left foot equally as divine. Soccer in Sun and Shadow traces the rise of the soccer industry and the concurrent voyage “from beauty to duty”: attempts to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute force, one that disdains fantasy and forfeits play for results. Eduardo Galeano, who describes himself as “a beggar for good soccer,” gives the world’s most popular sport all the poetry, passion, and politics it deserves."@en

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
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  • "Splendori e miserie del gioco del calcio"
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  • "El Fútbol a sol y sombra"
  • "Le Football, ombre et lumière : essai"
  • "El futbol : sol y sombra"
  • "Der Ball ist rund und Tore lauern überall"
  • "Der Ball ist rund"
  • "Jalkapallo valossa ja varjossa"@fi
  • "Le football, ombre et lumière"
  • "Soccer in sun and shadow"
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  • "Football in sun and shadow : an emotional history of World Cup football"
  • "Glorie en tragiek van het voetbal"
  • "El futbol a sol y sombra"@es
  • "El futbol a sol y sombra"
  • "Der Ball ist rund und die Tore lauern überall"
  • "Fodbold i sol og skygge"@da
  • "El fútbol : a sol y sombra"
  • "Fodbold i sol og skygge"
  • "Le football, ombre et lumière : essai"
  • "El fútbol a sol y sombra"
  • "El fútbol a sol y sombra"@es
  • "El fútbol a sol y sombra"@en
  • "Football in sun and shadow"@en
  • "Football in sun and shadow"
  • "El futbol : a sol y sombra"@es
  • "El futbol : a sol y sombra"

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