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Eduardo Galeano Quotes about Soccer

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In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Team, Party

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.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Country, Team
Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.1, Nation Books

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Real, War
"The World Turns Around a Spinning Ball" by Eduardo Galeano, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2014.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Games, Balls
"Social poet captures the beautiful game". Interview with Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. October 9, 2013.

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.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Sleep, Grandchildren

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Football, Kissing
Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

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.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Football, Player
Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.194, Verso

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Eye, Play
Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.208, Verso

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.

Eduardo Galeano
Soccer, Sports, Running

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