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title: "Soccer in Sun and Shadow Paperback – August 6, 2013"
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price: "600 DH"
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# Soccer in Sun and Shadow Paperback – August 6, 2013

**Brand:** eduardo galeano
**Price:** 600 DH
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- **What is this?** Soccer in Sun and Shadow Paperback – August 6, 2013 by eduardo galeano
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    excellent view of football from famous Uruguayan writer
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014*

Eduardo Galeano is a renowned author in Uruguay and across South America is well known. He is also a life-long football fan. This little volume does not pose as an encyclopedic history of soccer (for that, see the outstanding history of football, 'The Ball is Round'), so do not expect such. If you just begin reading, without pre-existing assumptions, I think you will be entertained, enlightened, and find something to enjoy on almost ever page. Written in the form of a collection of very short essays, running from half a page to two or three pages each, this volume covers a range of topics and moments in football that have significance to  the author. Not every side or famous figure or aspect of the world's favorite sport is presented, but every essay presents something interesting. I have had previous editions and re-read it before every world cup, having read it perhaps five or six times now. And I still enjoy it each time.Some of his wriitng is exaggerated--the author is, after all, a poet--but his pure passion for the sport and its magic moments, and greatest players, shines through in every essay. I think any reader can enjoy this book, even someone with little former exporsure ot football.However, some individuals, whose political ideas lean to the right, may be turned off by the author's obvious leftist slant on world affairs. My advice: get over it! Put it aside! This is one man's passionate, poetic history of the game he loves more than any other, and is well worth reading despite of, or perhaps even more so, because of the way he involves his own passions in the pages here.Highly recommended.Jeff Tucker.

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    Series of vignettes on historic (South American) soccer
  

*by M***D on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2019*

A copy of my Goodreads review:A series of roughly one page vignettes on the history of soccer by your crazy, Uruguayan uncle, Eduardo Galeano. The emphasis is heavily on South America and the World Cup with some commentary on Europe (and occasionally Africa) when they are relevant to the World Cup or social commentary.In some ways this is more a chronicle of the change in the game as a reflection and result of the changing political, social, and economic landscape around the world. While I generally found the social commentary to be on point, when the author delved into more specific political areas I thought he was a bit naive. Perhaps that is just my Western bias and those beliefs are wide-spread in South America.Regardless, I would not call this a true history. It is much more an emotional portrait and commentary on the game as experienced by a fan. In this case the fan is moved to emotion by beautiful performances and to write by politics and social change. If you have a burning desire to experience the fandom and performance of a forgotten age before corporations owned the sport than this may be the book for you. If you want a fan's view of old world cups or South American soccer, this also may be for you. If you are interested in a more rigorous or broad history you may want to look into something like The Ball is Round instead.I really disliked the style at first but it kind of grew on me. Not for everyone, but it has a unique charm and value all of its own.

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    rhythmic, lyrical prose reflecting on the beautiful game, filled with politics, sold at an outrageous price.
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2015*

The cover reads "[a] beautiful ode to the beautiful game" by Grant Wahl from Sports Illustrated. It is lyrical and it has a cadence that is both filled with love and spewing venom at the state of things. Galeano uses this rhythm to touch on some heavy topics- Latin America and its state of neb-colonization, the effects of gloabalization, but not just on the affairs of people, things, finance, and ideas, but more pointedly on the Beautiful Game. All the while well informed sources in Miami were announcing the imminent fall of Fidel Castro, it was only a matter of hours according to Galeano.The two things that I was really disappointed about with this book was 1) the price; and 2) the amount of pages. The book has 297 pages when it could be printed in 150 pages maximum. It contains pages that have one paragraph with a image from Word 97 pasted randomly on its margins or center. This makes the book fairly childish, I had this guilty feel that i was in middle school and sneaking into my bed with a headlight to read it late into the night. Also, because of the wasted pages and the font size, charging 10 bucks or more for this book is unconscionable.

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