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 real war
Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.
mean warrior reality
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.
military war names
Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
war world culture
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
war civilization names
Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.
war struggle people
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
beauty became blossoms history joy sad soccer sports torn voyage
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
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.
helping others perhaps writer
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
owners
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.
defend human nature united
Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend themselves, saying, 'We have human rights?' Well, let's admit that nature also should be protected.
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.
became best doomed dreams legs number realized wake
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.
age almighty kidding obey reveal
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.