Andrew Downie

Andrew Downie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved Latin America in the 1990s and spent the decade as a foreign correspondent living in Mexico and Haiti. He moved to Brazil in 1999 and spent 20 years there.

He now mostly writes about sports but his work on all sorts of topics has appeared in publications that include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Scotland on Sunday, The Economist, the Financial Times, GQ, Esquire and Condé Nast Traveller. He translated the biography of Garrincha from Portuguese to English and then wrote 'Doctor Socrates: Footballer, Philosopher, Legend' and then 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Inside Story of the Legendary 1970 World Cup. His biography of Pele has already been hailed as the most compete work on the greatest footballer of all time.

Twitter: @adowniebrazil