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Sam France

13/03/2019

An ode to 2006/07 Kaká: the wholesome hero modern football craves

Since 2007, Messi and Ronaldo have monopolised the Ballon d’Or. So it’s worth remembering the infectious brilliance of the champions before them, Kaká

Sam France 13/03/2019
07/07/2017

Sparta and Xerxes: an ancient conflict that lies dormant in Rotterdam

When the monstrous army of Persia trampled over the slaughtered remains of a patchwork Greek force of a few thousand at the mountain pass of Thermopylae in 480BC, it could have been…

Sam France 07/07/2017
23/05/2017

Yasuhiko Okudera: Japanese football’s first overseas pioneer

THERE IS A JAPANESE PHRASE which translates roughly to “the frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean”. A general interpretation is that those who do not experience the world…

Sam France 23/05/2017
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