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
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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
Blessed with the likes of Arshavin, Pogrebnyak and Akinfeev at their best, and led by Guus Hiddink, how far should Russia’s 2008 side have gone?
These Football Times’ podcast team go visual and take a look at the Euro 88 final, featuring the talents of Gullit, Van Basten, Belanov and Protasov
With a goalscoring record that compares to any of the great Argentine strikers, Carlos Bianchi remains one of the nation’s finest talents
Through the history of football, some kits are associated with disaster. From inadvertent swastikas to one-off disasters, this is the story of eight