ALMOST 550 APPEARANCES, 15 trophies and 25 years of loyal service; José María Gutiérrez Hernández, or ‘Guti’…
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It was a wet December night at Stadio San Nicola in 1999 as FC Bari played…
Illustration by Soccer Patterns. View more here Just seven short seasons ago, Palermo were the…
I remember sitting in my British literature class at the clueless age of 16 and reading…
The famous author and journalist Eduardo Galeano once said of Garrincha: “In the entire history of football, no one made more people happy.” That summed up the man who many Brazilians consider as good as Pelé.
IN FRONT OF A CROWD OF 1,821 PEOPLE, history was made. At Victoria Stadium, sitting beneath…
If there’s one word that describes Carlos Valderrama – apart from “hair” – it’s toque. Spanish…
A WAGON WITH A PORTRAIT OF VLADIMIR LENIN on the front and a huge, white statue…
JORDAN HENDERSON JUST CAN’T WIN OVER THE MAJORITY IT SEEMS. To some, he can’t pass, can’t…
In 1911, Mohun Bagan, an all-Indian team from Kolkata, captured the hearts of the nation when…
On 30 April 1988, one of the most remarkable El Clásico encounters to ever take place…
Denis Bergamini found a dead owl at the training camp the morning of 18 November 1989.…
Reggiolo is a rural cheese farming town in the heartlands of Italy’s north. Famous not only…
THE DATE WAS 3 JUNE 2007 and Ivory Coast had just defeated Madagascar 5-0 to…
It has been four years since I started These Football Times and the landscape of football…
ALTHOUGH THE EACT ORIGINS OF FOOTBALL ARE STILL unclear, the Chinese game of Cuju (or…
FREDDY ADU: rarely has the name of a player with caps for such clubs as Portuguese…
Advertising boardings emblazoned in gaudy print with Sega, Gardner Computers and Lucozade laced the edges of the pitch,…