THE NAME Carlos Queiroz provokes disparate sentiments in the minds of supporters of the clubs…
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STEPPING OFF THE PLATFORM at the Abando train station and into its main corridor, you…
As featured on Guardian Sport IN A WORLD OF IDENTIKIT PREFABRICATED STADIA, where a club’s…
When Brazilians think of Belo Horizonte, a depressing image and scoreline crosses their mind, especially…
BORN IN THE TOWN of Castellammare di Stabia, beneath the brooding Mount Vesuvius, Fabio Quagliarella…
ANÍBAL RUIZ COULD sense something special within the Paraguay camp. Days before the 2006 World…
At the very last second, the ball whipped inside the whitewashed wooden stanchion, pinging across…
BEFORE WE START, two things need to be made clear. Football is the greatest sport…
Becoming a professional footballer aged 22, Ian Wright had to contend with numerous challenges before he went on to become a legend at Palace and Arsenal
FOOTBALL IS A GAME forever in a state of flux. Methods are under constant scrutiny…
IN THE IMMEDIATE aftermath of a whirlwind 90 minutes at the King Power stadium, few…
Reaching the final of Euro 88 and re-forming again in 1992 after the Union’s collapse, the Soviet national team enjoyed fleeting highs in their final days
In the 50s, Argentina boasted one of the great attacks. The chief supplier was was Orestes Corbatta, a flawed genius in the mould of Garrincha
IN MAY 1986 at the Stade de Gerland in Lyon, Atlético Madrid and Dynamo Kyiv…
FALSE NINE, REGISTA, LIBERO; these are all terms that will undoubtedly be familiar to the…
THE DATE IS 14 SEPTEMBER 2010 and Manchester United are squaring off against Scottish champions…
In the footballing dictionary, ‘world-class’ is often defined by a player’s ability to prove decisive…
When many speak of Osvaldo Zubeldía, the obvious answer is to look at him with…