Football between the sun and the shade

A sad journey from pleasure to duty, so every time this sport turned into an industry, the field that arises from the pleasure of playing just for fun was excluded, and at the end of this century, professional football denounces what is not useful, and what is not useful in its regard is everything that does not bring profit, play has turned into a spectacle with a few heroes and many viewers, it is a football for looking at, and this spectacle has turned into one of the most profitable businesses in the world. In this book, the author "Eduardo Galeano" reviews the memory and reality of football by highlighting the history of this sport and the most influential elements surrounding it such as the goalkeeper, the player, the fan, the fanatic, the goal, the referee, the coach, the stage, and the most important World Cup matches from 1938 to 1994 trying through his narration to talk about the most important goals scored in these matches and the most prominent players of that era who were called the masters of the game such as Pelé, Maradona, Ylattini, Goyet, Velton, Charlton... As Galeano says, football is a mirror of the world, and it presents a thousand stories, each important, containing glory, independence, love, and misery, which the author tries to narrate in these pages.