7/6/2023 0 Comments Soccer in the sun and shadow![]() ![]() ![]() It is, at heart, a history book, one that takes as its subject the whole broad sweep of the game, from the "time of the Pharoahs the Egyptians used a ball made of straw or the husks of seeds, wrapped in colourful cloths" to, in the 2003 re-printing, the World Cup in Japan and Korea, when: Even if you don't enjoy it, there's nothing else like it. Published 20 years ago, Soccer in Sun and Shadow - whose author, the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, died Monday at the age of 74 - stands among those few, and even those who might quibble with such status would have to agree that there really isn't anything to argue about. There are many good books about football there are few that have claims to greatness. ![]()
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