Football In Sun And Shadow: An Emotional History Of World Cup Football

Football In Sun And Shadow: An Emotional History Of World Cup Football by Eduardo Galeano


ISBN
9780007162918
Published
Released
01 / 07 / 2003
Binding
Paperback
Pages
256
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 14mm

Eduardo Galeano's acclaimed classic of "the beautiful game" has been fully updated to include the 1998 and 2002 World Cups.

To the pure football fan even winning and losing is of secondary importance to those moments when a glimpse is afforded of footballing perfection, made more perfect still by the long and unpredictable hours spent waiting for it, and often the parade of tragicomic errors preceding it. Such instances of exultation and despair are brilliantly recounted in Football in Sun and Shadow, a parade of all shades of international football.

Beckenbaur, Yashin and Zico are here with their balletic dazzle. Here too are the tragic Escobar, guilty of an own goal for Colombia and gunned down in the streets of Medellin as a consequence; the English captain Neille who led a World War One charge on a trench by kicking a football across no man's land; and the Dynamo Kiev team which, although warned not to win a game against the Nazis, could not resist the temptation on the football pitch to overrun their oppressors: all 11 were shot in their Kiev shirts after the "game".

It is also a story of muses and spells: of the Argentinian manager who wouldn't feed his team chicken because it would bring bad luck; of the Russian goalkeeper who prepared his mind and his nerves with a cigarette and a dash of spirits before each game. This is the glory of football in all its vivid international hues, with its multilingual cries of despair, victory and sheer passion.

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