TO SOME, HE'S ONE OF THE BEST MANAGERS OF THE PAST TWO DECADES, willing to sacrifice style for substance and flair for formality. To others, he’s an unnerving...
STEPPING OFF THE U6 LINE and out from within the Fröttmaning U-Bahn station, a short escalator ride deposits you at a pedestrian bridge. Suspended high above ...
Illustration by Federico Manasse
President, manager, local organising committee chairman, captain, ambassador; when it comes to summing up Franz Beckenbauer’s ...
PERSISTENCE HAS BEEN THE KEY to success for many top-level footballers, but few does it apply to quite so comprehensively than the unassuming and grounded B...
On Zé Roberto’s 43rd birthday, Gabriel Jesus took to social media in order to thank “a man who helped no end in arrival as a professional”. His “biggest r...
With creative attacking footballers there tends to be stand-out, pivotal moments in their careers; wonderful flashes of genius or spectacular goals that are fon...
As Edison Flores sprinted down the left flank, he had three options. He could either cut inside and shoot, lay it off in the middle and make a run, or pick ...
False 9, Regista, Libero; these are all terms that will undoubtedly be familiar to the typical football enthusiast. As indeed will the players associated wi...
Join host Jim Hart and co-host and senior writer for TFT Jon Townsend for a unique interview with former Bayern Munich and Germany under-21 midfielder Frank Ger...
There are very few modern-day managers who you'd argue have success ingrained into their genetic makeup. Even the most partisan of Pep Guardiola followers, ...
Reporting for preseason training in the summer of 1971, not many at Bayern Munich recognised Gerd Müller. To those even remotely familiar with the career of Der...
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Imagine being billed as the next superstar of German football. Imagine the sheer immensity of the pressure, the...
Werder Bremen were in trouble. Viktor Skrypnyk’s side was only one point above the relegation zone entering the winter break during the 2015-16 Bundesliga seaso...
André Schürrle embarked on a powerful, driving run down the left wing, and lifted a hopeful ball towards the six-yard box, picking out the awaiting Mario Götze....
German sporting dominance was often viewed with an air of suspicion on the British Isles, thanks to World War sentimentality, relative economic strength, and hi...
The tenure of Pep Guardiola at German giants Bayern Munich will be remembered for a number of things: the dominance on the ball, the switches in emphasis from c...
Born to a World Cup-winning father in Mazinho, Thiago and Rafinha Alcántara have been surrounded by football and its culture for as long as they can remember, i...
BAD TIMING WAS IN PEPE REIN'S BLOOD. His father, Miguel, while in goal for Atlético Madrid in the 1974 European Cup final, was guilty of perhaps the most ill-fa...
