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FIFA WC Qatar 22 - a look at Uruguay journalist Eduardo Galeano’s football masterpiece, Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Like all Uruguayan children, Galeano wanted to be a footballer, he said. Amid a war and myriad crises, for the next few weeks, the world’s attention will be on Qatar for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. “Normally we Uruguayans belong to Nacional or Penarol from the day we are born. For the fanatic, pleasure comes not from your own club’s victory but from the other’s defeat.”