Eduardo Galeano Quotes


I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle, and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.


Citations

Galeano, Eduardo. Soccer in Sun and Shadow. Translated by Mark Fried, Verso, 1998, p. 2.

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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
  • Born: September 3, 1940
  • Died: April 13, 2015
  • Nationality: Uruguayan
  • Profession: Writer, Journalist

Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".