Luckily, on the field you can still see, even if only once in a long while, some insolent rascal who sets aside the script and commits the blunder of dribbling past the entire opposing side, the referee, and the crowd in the stands, all for the carnal delight of embracing the forbidden adventure of freedom. The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength, a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy, and outlaws daring. And that spectacle has become one of the most profitable businesses in the world, organized not to facilitate play but to impede it. Play has become spectacle, with few protagonists and many spectators, soccer for watching. Nobody earns a thing from the crazy feeling that for a moment turns a man into a child playing with a balloon, a cat toying with a ball of yarn, a ballet dancer flying through the air with a ball as light as a balloon or a ball of yarn, playing without even knowing he’s playing, with no purpose or clock or referee. In this fin de siècle world, professional soccer condemns all that is useless, and useless means not profitable. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots. El Futbol a Sol y Sombra, del escritor uruguayo Eduardo Galeano, es uno de los libros sobre futbol más elogiados en la actualidad.Más que hacer una exposición de los detalles técnicos del juego (forzando al lector a repasar listas de interminables de nombres, fechas y estadísticas), Galeano nos presenta 150 relatos cortos sobre el futbol. The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. The sketch is a part of the book written by Eduardo Galeano called “Football in Sun and Shadow” Football In the season of FIFA world cup, a small sketch by Eduardo Galeano on football is published here for the readers.

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