July 3, 1974: crowds throng the Westfalenstadion in a match between two immensely talented sides. A match whose victor would face the host nation in a quest to etch their names into the…
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Jomo Sono: the man who beat death, poverty and institutional racism to become a true footballing icon
Imagine losing one of your parents as a child. Imagine being abandoned by the other shortly after, leaving you orphaned in one of the poorest places on earth. Imagine having to be…
How Pelé and the New York Cosmos changed soccer
“The New York Cosmos were the best and worst of American soccer,” Rodney Marsh once said. It’s often rare that one sentence can sum up every argument you want to make; Rodney Marsh does…