books on football

The poet laureate of football, Uruguay’s Eduardo Galeano, put up this sign on his door every four years: ‘Closed for Soccer’. He then spent a month watching the World Cup and writing about…

Like all Uruguayan children, Galeano wanted to be a footballer, he said. And he played quite well, “when I was asleep”. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Amid a war and myriad crises, for the…