Fernando Mahía Vilas

The most atypical Vuelta a España was that of this 2020: masks, snow, rain, no public. Here is a story with photos for Euronews on the first stage of this Covd19-times tour.

Text and photos in Revista Líbero story about Detroit FC, a soccer team from this American city whose fans resemble those left-wing hoolingans of European clubs as Rayo Vallecano or St. Pauli.

Text and photos for Euronews on how Covid-19 has affected diffently on the different tiers of Spanish football. As it has happened with the rest of the society, on the football fields the least favoured have been the ones who have lost the most.

Story for 7K on Trintxerpe's history, a neighborhood of Galician fishermen in the Basque Country, and his fight against Francoist coup d'etat in 1936. A man named Josetxo Fariña, son of one of theses fishermen, kept their memory alive in small notebooks.

Coverage through text and photos on the changes of East Harlem -the Puerto Rican neighborhood of NYC, AKA as 'El Barrio'- through the life of George Zavala, the last bohemian of the 'nuyoricans'. Published in Basque weekly magazine 7K.

Story for El Salto about the Aita Mari and the people who worked, selflessly, in refurbishing this old fishing boat into a salvage ship. The boat later sailed to the Mediterranean Sea to work in the refugee crisis.

Last story in a serial of seven about Galician inmigrants in the US, for Luzes. I travelled different locations in the US looking for these people, searching their stories -some of the about 100 years old, some others much more recent- and writing them.

The first of some collaborations with football and culture magazine Líbero after a trip to Belfast, depicting George Best's heritage in both Catholics and Protestant's imaginary.