Long before Sindelar, Meisl and Austria’s brilliant Wunderteam, Josef Uridil was a hero for the masses, a man whose goals united an ailing nation
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In the history of Bayer Leverkusen, no man has done more, seen more or won more at the club than former goalkeeper and all-round hero, Rüdiger Vollborn
Mourinho reinvented Chelsea and the Premier League: astute analysis, unconventional formations, below-the-belt mind games, and a new tactical blueprint
In 2010, Mesut Özil was untouchable for Werder and Germany. He was elegant, audacious and daring. He was, and always will be, unapologetically, Özil
It’s been a unique and difficult rise to the top of the women’s game for Chioma Ubogagu, now set to star for Real Madrid. She explained all in an open chat
It has taken over a century, but in Papu Gómez and Josip Iličić, Atalanta’s goddess has some players befitting of her beauty
Featuring a goat that’s named after one of the club’s greatest managers, the 1. FC Köln logo is one of German football’s most interesting and recognisable
When George Raynor retired, he knighted in Sweden but barely remembered in England. But why? After all, he’s the first Englishman to reach a World Cup final
An Everton fan for over five decades, Paul Mc Parlan recalls the day an FA Cup tie at Notts County in 1984 changed so much for the despondent Blues
A young Neymar with everything to prove against the wily Ronaldinho who’d seen it all – when Santos met Flamengo in 2011, it was a match for the ages
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
Once Italy’s undisputed kings, Pro Vercelli still have more league titles than Lazio, Roma and Napoli – but their decline has been long
Led by the enigmatic Emilio Mondonico, Torino would overcome all obstacles to reach the 1992 UEFA Cup final – where their curse continued
Lomana Trésor LuaLua might not have fulfilled the potential that he possessed at the beginning of his career, but he always got the fans off their seats
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
France 98 had the drama, controversy and excitement which makes the World Cup so special, with more than a fair dose of scandal thrown in for good measure
Something as simple as a bat on a football badge may seem so trivial at first but, in the city of Valencia’s case, it represents so much more
At his best one of the world’s top striker, yet still criminally under-appreciated, Enrico Chiesa was as good as any Italian striker of the 1990s