Football Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

“The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty.”

— Eduardo Galeano

I like Messi because he doesn't think he is Messi.

— Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

— Eduardo Galeano

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

— Eduardo Galeano

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms…

— Eduardo Galeano

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

— Eduardo Galeano

A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a…

— Eduardo Galeano

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party…

— Eduardo Galeano

His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away…

— Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy,…

— Eduardo Galeano

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead, 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And…

— Eduardo Galeano

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big…

— Eduardo Galeano

The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud…

— Eduardo Galeano

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And…

— Eduardo Galeano

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss…

— Eduardo Galeano

The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the…

— Eduardo Galeano

“As a fan I also left a lot to be desired. Juan Alberto Schiaffino and Julio César Abbadie played for Peñarol, the…

— Eduardo Galeano

“The Stadium Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is…

— Eduardo Galeano