Tim Vickery

Based in Rio de Janeiro since 1994, Tim Vickery writes and broadcasts on South American football for the BBC, World Soccer magazine, Talksport, sambafoot.com, World Football Daily and Sports Illustrated in the US, SBS in Australia, Newstalk in Ireland and a host of Jamaican radio stations who have somehow discovered his phone number. He also makes frequent appearances on a number of Brazilian TV shows.

In his spare hours he has been known to say “What spare hours?”