Eduardo Galeano Quotes


The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.


Citations

Galeano, Eduardo. Soccer in Sun and Shadow. Translated by Mark Fried, Verso, 1998, p. 12.

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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".