El Fútbol a Sol Y Sombra (Paperback)

from TomMcGreevy

I like Eduardo Galeano as a writer. I think he tried to do something interesting here and failed. Simply the book was weighed down with to much other stuff. Not only was it a paean to soccer but it tried to be a typical Galeano effort as well - a study of the North & South, a work of world histor...

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

Being literary reflections on football by a Uruguayan novelist. The pieces are short and easily-digestable, but they are also more than a little arid, and you spend a lot of time reading about personages the author assumes that you know, and you probably don't.

from Ruecking

This slim volume delivered the cultural history and excitement of soccer (the world's most popular sport) to a boy raised in an immersion of baseball. Akin to the stories I know of Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Sandy Cofax, etc. To instill the anticipation, I reread this with the advent of...

from jiles2

Perhaps the best part of reading this book is taking the literary thought, and placing it in the realm of soccer. In my euro-centric view of soccer, it was nice to be reminded that some of the most beautiful soccer can be witnessed in my own hemisphere.

from kakadoo202

Short chapters about random soccer facts