A Top Flight Football Coach Who Wrote a Mystery Novel
Spanish top flight football club Real Betis coach Pepe Mel sounds like one of those rare breeds who is well-endowed to be guiding one of the best teams in the La Liga; fighting it out with the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid for honors, as well as being resilient enough to withstand the rigors of a highly demanding job even as he likes to keep the creative juice flowing from his mind. But that’s Pepe for you whose way of relaxing is presumably unusual when he is not busy with handling the La Liga side because writing mystery novels is what he does.
According to the 48-year old, the process of preparing for writing is what he loves the most about this very art, and writing helps him relax even though, he might take to thinking of ways to stop Real forward Cristiano Ronaldo between pages. As a matter of fact, Mel had never thought he could write a book; something he does in the free time that football allows him.
The Real Betis boss has just announced his first book “The Liar” which tells the adventures of a millionaire antiques collector who ends up being at loggerheads with the Vatican while hunting for stolen manuscripts. The mystery novel is slated for October 19 release-date, and it had taken Mel four or five years to complete his atypical-of-a-football-coach offering. As well, he is currently working on another book based on the 17th century Spanish painter Velazquez.
At the end, the Real Betis coach only asks of readers being able to have fun out of reading his book as much as he had writing it.
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