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
owners
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
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.
soccer games balls
I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.
believe people answers
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
moving god-love
A pretty move, for the love of God.
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.
heart joy torture
This work is a torture on the rump but a joy to the heart.
latin known
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
winning division-of-labor losing
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.
prehistoric
I am quite prehistoric, absolutely prehistoric.
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.