Arqueros, ilusionistas y goleadores

Through these soccer pages, Osvaldo Soriano reinvents his childhood and adolescence, portrays emblematic players, places his characters at the crossroads of glory or failure, and narrates amazing matches played in Patagonia, or in Second World War Europe. World War, or in the Congo with Perón as referee. This edition brings together all of Soriano's texts on soccer, including the Memoirs of Mister Peregrino Fernández, the latest stories he wrote for Página/12. Epic and humor, so fundamental in his style, are two constants in these narratives, in which Soriano displays all the dimensions of neighborhood soccer on the flat screen of paper and turns them into universal ones; he gives football theory lessons only within the reach of the best writers, but also, based on the fantasies evoked by the game, he explores the ambitions, courage and miseries of the human being. As Ángel Berlanga says in the prologue, "a soccer field is, for him, a propitious setting to focus on man; talent and clumsiness, justice and corruption, the excessive and the conservative fit in a game and its surroundings , the real and the fictional, the weak and the powerful".