A young Neymar with everything to prove against the wily Ronaldinho who’d seen it all – when Santos met Flamengo in 2011, it was a match for the ages
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Blessed with two of the greatest front threes in the history of football, which was better at Barcelona: Stoichkov-Laudrup-Romário or Messi-Neymar-Suárez?
Having already clinched FIFA Player of the Year award ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah, Luka Modrić also took home the 2018 Ballon d’Or following his exploits with both club and…
When I was 12 years old, I made a discovery that changed my trajectory as a player: the website Youtube. Suddenly I had access to a world of football outside of the…
THE RECENT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN Flamengo, Real Madrid, 16-year-old whizzkid Vinícius Júnior and his agency Traffic were lengthy, eventually concluded by a €45 million sale that will see the Brazil under-17 star officially…
FOOTBALL IS A FICKLE WORLD. When a club is doing well, all seems plain sailing, with everyone over the moon. But when the club starts to sink towards the precipice of decline,…
In the footballing dictionary, ‘world-class’ is often defined by a player’s ability to prove decisive in a match of high-importance. While other members of the team may take a step back, those…
THE SIGHT OF A BRAZIL TEAM in full samba flow invokes something in football supporters that can’t be replicated by any other team. People marvel over Spain’s fluid passing and Germany’s ruthless dynamism…
This feature is part of The Academy Way WHEN THE TITANIC HIT AN ICEBERG AND BEGAN ITS DESCENT into the punishingly icy waters off Newfoundland on 14 April, 1912, the world’s most…
WHEN JOHAN CRUYFF DESCRIBED the basis of Total Football, he really described team football in two sentences: “Simple football is the most beautiful. But playing simple football is the hardest thing.” With a…