Football scout working in USLC. International Relations at Andrade Sports Group. Author: 'Red Wine & Arepas: How Football is Becoming Venezuela’s Religion'.
Sep 23, 2024 • 26 tweets • 11 min read
Using the CIES Demographic Atlas to Analyse Liga FUTVE 2024 🔎📊
@CIES_Football have a number of tools and studies that can be used to get an overview of Venezuela’s top flight.
I’ll add context to it, from ‘Club-Trained’ prowess to squad building instability.
🧵A Thread:
Let’s start with looking at teams’ attitude towards ‘Club-Trained’ players, defined by CIES as the “% of minutes by players who have been in the employer club for at least three seasons between the ages of 15-21.”
The average in Liga FUTVE is 17.4%, ranking it 16th out of 51.
Mar 28, 2020 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
[Thread] If you saw my thread earlier in the week, the US Department of Justice has put a $15m reward out for the capture and conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, indicting him for the promotion of narcoterrorism.....(1/X)
[Thread]...and accusing him of being the leader of The Cartel of Suns, who, the DoJ state have been using cocaine as a ‘weapon’ to ‘undermine the health and wellbeing’ of the US. They allege the Cartel have worked with 2,500 dissidents to smuggle cocaine from Colombia...(2/X)
Mar 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🤦🏽♂️Why can’t anything in Venezuela stay still while I finish my book!
The US Department of Justice has put a $15 million reward out for the capture and conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, indicting him on charges of the promotion of narcoterrorism.
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The US Department of Justice claim 250 metric tons of cocaine is trafficked from Venezuela annually, and state that President Maduro intentionally used cocaine as a “weapon” to “undermine the health and well-being” the US.