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
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Plenty was at stake when the Netherlands and the Czech Republic met at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro on 19 June 2004. Dick Advocaat’s Oranje had…
With a goalscoring record that compares to any of the great Argentine strikers, Carlos Bianchi remains one of the nation’s finest talents
A hero to many of the game’s greats, a player who struck fear into Paolo Maldini, Cha Bum-kun came to Europe and conquered as it’s first great Asian import
In 2010, Mesut Özil was untouchable for Werder and Germany. He was elegant, audacious and daring. He was, and always will be, unapologetically, Özil
A move prompted by the purchase of a lightbulb, when Kevin Keegan moved to Southampton in 1980, it represented one of the greatest shocks in football
The two years of challenges and setbacks that Italy threw Guardiola’s way undoubtedly shaped him into one of the greatest managers to have graced the game
One of the game’s greatest defenders, in 1993/94, as Barcelona reached the Champions League final, Ronald Koeman would finish as top scorer
While Santi Cazorla is still blissfully leaving defenders in his wake, we shouldn’t take the third chapter of this extraordinary love story for granted
Taking Ingolstadt from second-tier depths to the Bundesliga, Ralph Hasenhüttl would establish himself as one of Germany’s most exciting managers
He’s been a mainstay in Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, solid and consistent, but Aymeric Laporte remains one of the game’s most underrated stars
Coming into a divided and troubled club, Maurizio Sarri would guide Empoli to new heights and forge his unique Sarri-ball philosophy
They arrived as little-known gambles but Grafite and Edin Džeko would fire Wolfsburg to the title, becoming one of the Bundesliga’s greatest strike-forces
They were aggressive and attacking, a team in Mauricio Pochettino’s image, and his Southampton side of 2013/14 would put him on the map