There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart