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 Read Quote
What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It’s not there. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy? Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
A lot of leftists think it is soccer’s fault that people don’t think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil – this is clear. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That’s their way. Eduardo Galeano Read Quote
