TITLE = Soccer in Sun and Shadow AUTHOR = Eduardo Galeano PRICE = I forget, but certainly vicious capitalist imperialists oppressed the working class to derive it. SIZE = 240 pages YEAR = ? SOURCE = book stores, online RATING = 1 / 5 stars
What can you say about Eduardo Galeano? Basically he has rewritten the
same book Las Veinas Abiertas de America Latina over and over
again, with the usual Marxist crap.
There is no question that the man is a soccer fan, but he can't resist in
trying to make his work another story about how everybody is viciously
exploited by capitalists, who have essentially ruined soccer by supressing
the art. Oh well, Eduardo, you should have moved to East Berlin when you
had a chance. Then you could have supported BFC Dynamo Berlin, the secret
police club that cheated their way to 10 straight GDR titles, and you
could have lived in your socialist paradise to boot! Or perhaps to get
some real solidarity with the working class, why not go over to the
Millwall Firm wearing a ManU jersey and demand a seat?
On the positive side, his focus tends to be on Latin American players,
which is grossly neglected by the Eurocentrics. His little vignettes are
often poetic, and if
you can get past the politics which constantly crop up, you might like it.
Certainly intellectuals will be intrigued, but most of them wouldn't know
a soccer ball if it bopped them in the head...