Tears at La Bombonera is author Christopher Hylland's six-year journey living, working and travelling through South America - where football is a way of life.From Buenos Aires to Colombia's Caribbean coast, and back again, Hylland experiences the history and fanaticism at some of South America's football clubs along the way.Football is a global language, and he shares the stories and experiences from the terraces.It's a place where what happens on the pitch can rank low in terms of quality, but means so much off of it; where everything else, most notably the culture of the game, is unrivalled.Hundreds of thousands of football-mad visitors flock to South America every season.To the iconic stadia such as La Bombonera and Maracana; to lower division teams in the shadows of some of the world's poorest slums and favelas.Tears at La Bombonera is a book rich in human interest, including the author's own personal experience of adapting to a new continent and way of life.