Red Wine & Arepas: How Football Is Becoming Venezuela's Religion

by Jordan Florit

Overview

National team managers, league champions, club owners, despised fan groups, and even the Chavez family, Jordan Florit met with them all. Red Wine and Arepas marks a remarkable achievement by a talented and tenacious journalist. Part travelogue, part sports book, part love letter to an embattled nation, modern Venezuela is brought to life through events on and off its football pitches. Ready yourself for a crazy, adrenalin-packed account, full of chance meetings and narrow escapes, revealing interviews and vibrant observation. Florit doesn't waste a second of his travels, always at hand with his phlegmatic wit and reporter's pen to squeeze as much colour from every experience. Who would have thought a book on Venezuelan domestic football could be so rich, so entertaining, and so full of life? At long last, an uplifting story from this downtrodden - but not defeated - nation. A must-read for football and non-football fans alike.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164737146
Publisher:	Jordan Florit
Publication date:	11/20/2020
Series:	Red Wine & Arepas (multiple languages)
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Jordan Florit is an insatiable reader and writer. Books on Latin America, politics, psychology, and sociology take up the space left on his shelf once those on football have had their pride of place. These are the topics that influence his writing, where he skirts the main theme of football with culture and anthropology. Over a ten-year writing career, his work has featured in a number of publications, including acclaimed magazine These Football Times and on the award-winning website Football Paradise.