With Romanian football experiencing some of its darkest times in recent years, Bucharest’s traditional giants find themselves in the lower leagues
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When Gheorghe Hagi peaked at USA 94, he did so by wowing world football to his and Eastern European talent. It was his fantasy moment in the sun
This feature is part of Virtuoso It was Andy Warhol who conceived the concept of 15 minutes of fame. According to the art icon, everyone at some point would have theirs. The…
THERE IS SOMETHING about Brescia Calcio. Founded in 1911 in the quaint but industrial city that is situated in the Lombardy region of Italy, they are oft described as a yo-yo team, yet…
THIS SEASON the Champions League has thrilled fans, with the traditional big boys strutting their stuff bolstered by a litany of world-class stars. Teams from Eastern Europe have again fallen by the…
Illustration by Federico Manasse The Maradona of the Carpathians, Gheorghe Hagi is a complex character. There is a dividing line between the hero of the masses he undoubtedly was in Romania, and…
RECENT YEARS HAVE seen the last nails knocked into the coffin of Romanian football. It seems that Gheorghe Hagi’s famous words that Romanian football was a ticking time bomb, waiting to implode…
In an exclusive interview, we talk to the first man to have won the European Cup twice with separate clubs, Miodrag Belodedici
It was the first match since being comprehensively beaten 4-0 by Fabio Capello’s Milan side in the Champions League final. A star-studded Barcelona showed up at Oosterpark Stadion in Groningen to face the…
WHEN FIFA WAS FORMED IN 1904 its membership was comprised of only seven teams, all from Europe. Over the next two decades more and more national sides joined FIFA, and the 1924 Olympic…