{"product_id":"soccer-in-sun-and-shadow-paperback","title":"Soccer in Sun and Shadow - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEduardo Galeano\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRory Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In \u003ci\u003eSoccer in Sun and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified the rules that we still play by today and to Latin America, where the \"crazy English\" spread the game only to find it creolized by the locals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll the greats--Pelé, Di Stéfano, Cruyff, Eusébio, Puskás, Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer-- have joyous cameos in this book. yet soccer, Galeano cautions, \"is a pleasure that hurts.\" Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. Galeano tells of the suicide of Uruguayan player Abdón Porte, who shot himself in the center circle of the Nacional's stadium; of the 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 the best.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoccer is a game that bureaucrats try to dull and the powerful try to manipulate, but it retains its magic because it remains a bewitching game--\"a feast for the eyes ... and a joy for the body that plays it\"--exquisitely rendered in the magical stories of \u003ci\u003eSoccer in Sun and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Galeano\u003c\/b\u003e (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, a literary giant of the Latin American left and global soccer's preeminent man of letters. He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, \u003ci\u003eOpen Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVoices in Time\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. Galeano once described himself as a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia. Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called \u003ci\u003eOpen Veins of Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.22 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765758656800,"sku":"9781645030379","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/39cd0120d24dc15d319172692b11de5b.webp?v=1780279014","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/soccer-in-sun-and-shadow-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}