THE back seat of a 1991 Nissan Sentra speeding through New Jersey is no place to be getting in touch with your ethnic identity.

If you really want to get to grips with his authorial identity, Dyer himself suggests, you are better off thinking of each book as a small part of a larger whole that comprises the unity of the Dyer experience than as separate entities in themselves.

The question was how could he get physical experience and excitement, with his net identity?

Pekerman, then, should be able to help Colombian football get in touch with its lost identity.