Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeanowas an 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"...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth3 September 1940
CityMontevideo, Uruguay
CountryUruguay
soccer games balls
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
soccer country team
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.
soccer real war
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
soccer eye play
Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it
soccer football feet
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.
soccer sports running
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
soccer sleep grandchildren
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.
soccer team party
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.
above america condemned intimate latin obsessed
I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
owners
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
against competition difficult perfect says
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
country thinking people
The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!
respect believe charity
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
latin years america
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.