Eduardo Galeano Quotes About Soccer

Quotes about: Soccer

• In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Team, Party

• I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Games, Balls

  "Social poet captures the beautiful game". Interview with Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. October 9, 2013.

• The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sports, Running

• His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Player

  Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.194, Verso

• The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sleep, Grandchildren

• And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Football, Kissing

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.5, Nation Books

• I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Country, Team

  Eduardo Galeano (2013). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.1, Nation Books

• Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Eye, Play

  Eduardo Galeano (1998). “Soccer in Sun and Shadow”, p.208, Verso

• Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Real, War

  "The World Turns Around a Spinning Ball" by Eduardo Galeano, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2014.

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