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Outside Turkey, the maverick talent of Ibrahim Yattara remains a well-kept secret – but he was just as dazzling as Europe’s best
The only Ukrainian footballer to ever win the Ballon d’Or, Oleg Blokhin’s records stand him out as perhaps the greatest Eastern European footballer of all
For its size, Uruguay remain the ultimate over-achievers in football, harnessing their famed Garra Charrúa to devastating effect
My love of Colombian football was ignited by one astonishing passing move, and by Carlos Valderrama, the man whose genius had made it happen
Small and largely ignored in the German football spectrum, in 2001 Union Berlin burst onto the map thanks to an iconic DFB-Pokal run
Uruguay are cited as the biggest overachievers in international football history – and that’s before their Olympic triumphs are considered
Rising against the odds late in his career, Steve Savidan was one of Ligue 1’s best goalscorer and a France international. Then tragedy struck
Named the Gol di Turone, few moments in Italian football history have been as fiercely debated or controversial at that on in May 1981
In the history of both Argentina football and Real Madrid, few midfielders can match the complete flair, skill and class of Fernando Redondo
Though he had never donned the Cagliari shirt, when Gianfranco Zola returned to Sardinia in 2003, he was given a true hero’s homecoming
Born on the same day is just the start: the life and times of legends George Best and Howard Kendall are fit for a movie on the enigmatic duo
In the history of Espanyol, one man stands above all others – Raúl Tamudo. And one moment of his is more famous than any other in La Liga
Spending years out of the game following a premature retirement, the brilliant Marc Overmars still had one triumphant return in him
He arrived with nothing to prove, but true to character, Clarence Seedorf would approach his Botafogo years, his twilight, with the same class as always
Reliable, professional and gifted, in the pantheon of great Italian goalkeepers, Stefano Sorrentino holds his own – even if he is criminally underrated
A serial winner and goalscorer for the world’s biggest club, Karim Benzema is a modern legend – and yet he’s still not as good as Olivier Giroud for France
Coming from one of the world’s most under-developed countries, it took so much for Saido Berahino to rise – and he might just fulfil his potential yet
One of the sport’s greatest talents; a doctor; an activist; a maverick: in the history of football, no career has looked quite like Sócrates’
All it would take was victory against lowly Levante to secure the most remarkable unbeaten season in Spanish football history. But it wasn’t to be
“Andrà tutto bene, restate a casa.” It was more than just a flimsy phrase – everything in Francesco Caputo’s career is. And it inspired a nation
London? Rome? Paris? No. After becoming the world’s most expensive player in 2009. Cristiano Ronaldo would make his Real Madrid debut in … Tallaght
A European football club with Champions League aspirations that you could part own? Where’s the catch?The good news is that there isn’t one
Many thought it wasn’t possible to replace Roberto Carlos at Real Madrid. Marcelo, however, has surpassed what his legendary predecessor achieved
There’s every chance that travelling teams who have in the past have felt inferior, won’t suffer as much now that the focus is purely on the pitch
Boasting the young but brilliant talents of Zidane, Lizarazu and Dugarry, Bordeaux, languishing in Ligue 1, would end AC Milan’s greatest era
Few players in the history of Barcelona have been hated at the Bernabéu more than Gerard Piqué. But they once cheered his name
Moving from CONIFA to the FIFA-recognised OFC, Tuvalu and Kiribati are now on the football map. But does this mean for them and the OFC?
Rising up from the ashes of other failed experiments, FC Moscow once came close to establishing a new order in Russian football
When the Nazis rolled into Austria in 1938, everything would change. But the legendary Wunderteam reserved one last heroic act of greatness for them
Dubbed the “mini Torres”, Krisztián Németh had more than a little in common with the Spaniard. A Liverpool prodigy, he talks Anfield, Torres and more