Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeanowas an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left"...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth3 September 1940
CityMontevideo, Uruguay
CountryUruguay
space world nostalgia
A unipolar world - one with only one power - makes sure that this space almost disappears. In a multipolar world this space multiplies. Therefore, there is nostalgia for a multipolar world.
way world upside-down
If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?
powerful world wealth
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion.
war world culture
The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
crazy military world
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?
football secret world
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.
people world poverty
Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.
people world small-places
Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world.
From 8 A.M. until noon, I am pessimistic. Then from 1 P.M. until 4, I feel optimistic.
disasters nature
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
realities
I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.
believe business game legs less party soccer though watch
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.
convinced leftists people proof
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.
beings deserves human scientists
Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.