Soccer in Sun and Shadow
by Eduardo Galeano
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports, Sports, and History.
In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, awardwinning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designe...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports, Sports, and History.
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Ramachandra Guha
“Let me urge upon you the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano’s Soccer in Sun and Shadow – aka Football in Sun and Shadow – a delightfully idiosyncratic work that blends history, memory, fact, and fiction, in telling the story of the evolution of modern football.”
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