To talk about street football is to talk about the beautiful game at its core. It has connotations of getting back to basics, of the sort football fans, and...
"Maradona would have been shit if he was from the North Pole.” Alongside genetics, the surrounding environment plays a pivotal role in the development of a ...
The concept of aggregation by marginal gains was first championed by British cycling performance director Sir David Brailsford. In an interview with the BBC...
Will West Ham ever return to the days where local lads played beautiful football among their peers, with many born close to the stadium itself? It’s highly unli...
The principle of Occam's Razor states that “entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” and is popularly interpreted as suggesting that among competing hyp...
When Sheikh Mansour sanctioned the purchase of Manchester City back in September 2008, many neutral supporters believed that the Arabian Deputy Prime Minister w...
FC Barcelona's La Masia academy has been amongst the most efficient of youth systems over the past 25 years. Following Johan Cruyff’s reconstruction that dates ...
CALI IS OFTEN BILLED AS THE SALSA CITY OF THE WORLD and portrayed as a city beating to the rhythm of the dance clubs and music bars of La Sexta. Perhaps, though...
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IN THE AFTERMATH OF ARSENAL'S first Emirates Cup win since 2010, following a 1-0 win against VfL Wolfsburg, the spotlig...
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IN THE 14TH MINUTE of Barcelona’s game against Levante on November 25, 2012, Martin Montoya replaced Dani Alves completing a sign...
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IN A WORLD FULL OF UNITEDS AND CITYS, there is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur is a club with a long and illustrious h...
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In the build-up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil there was a feverish excitement bubbling around Marc Wilmots' Belgium s...
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Invading the pristine St Mary's pitch in their thousands, Southampton fans swarmed with a feverish energy towards the v...
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On the northern edge of Buenos Aires, on the banks of the Rio de la Plata, resides a giant of Argentine club football: ...
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Few academies in world football that can boast a history brimming with illustrious names quite like Sporting CP's. The ...
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WHAT DEFINES A GOLDEN GENERATION? It ought to be the glorious manifestation of the very peak of youth development; not ...
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MANCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB HAVE MANY REASONS TO BE BOASTFUL. They are the reigning Premier League champions, have as...
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Qatar don't do things by half. Ever since its first offshore oil field was discovered in 1960, the tiny Gulf state's st...
