In order to have a better understanding of the New York Red Bulls’ new Venezuelan signing Wikelman Carmona, we contacted Jordan Florit, who’s author of the book, Red, Wine & Arepas: How Football is Becoming Venezuela’s Religion and runs the Twitter account, @FUTVEEnglish, alongside Dominic Bisogno. Florit’s observations helped draw out a better picture of Carmona, who will turn 18 later this month.
“The first time I heard of him was at the Under-17 South American Championship in 2019. It was the year that I started writing the book, the year that I was doing a lot of research, so I came across him in that tournament, a very talented generation,” said Florit.