Eduardo Galeano Quotes


The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.


Citations

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

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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".