Soccer in sun and shadow
1999; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 36; Issue: 05 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.36-2813
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Digital Games and Media
ResumoIn this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for styles of play, players, and goals that express unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified rules that we still play by today and to Latin America, where crazy English spread game only to find it creolized by locals. All greats--Pele, Di Stefano, Cruyff, Eusebio, Puskas, Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer-- have joyous cameos in this book. yet soccer, Galeano cautions, a pleasure that hurts. Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. Galeano tells of suicide of Uruguayan player Abdon Porte, who shot himself in center circle of Nacional's stadium; of Argentine manager who wouldn't let his team eat chicken because it would bring bad luck; and of scandal-riven Diego Maradona whose real crime, Galeano suggests, was always the sin of being best. Soccer is a game that bureaucrats try to dull and powerful try to manipulate, but it retains its magic because it remains a bewitching game--a feast for eyes ...and a joy for body that plays it--exquisitely rendered in magical stories of Soccer in Sun and Shadow.
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