The son of a single mother and migrant from Guadeloupe, Thuram was raised in Paris and became Les Bleus’ record cap holder and a legend in calcio
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Each a legend in his own right, when Marcello Lippi and Roberto Baggio came together at Inter in 1999, it would spark a monumental season of hate
Few men have changed calcio like Gianni Brera. The journalist was a controversial figure but a genius who invented the modern lexicon of Italian football
It is perhaps disrespectful to the career of Giuseppe Colucci to deem his most important moment being running onto the pitch as a substitute. A reliable central midfielder, he played a total…
From These Football Times magazines comes an exclusive feature looking at the life and times of Argentina and Inter legend, Javier Zanetti
This feature is part of The Football Italia Years Modern football is so often a race to the bottom. The league table is a final, inescapable judgement, what it presents is indisputable:…
Among the many changes brought along by the advent of the Premier League, the gradual increase of Italian players and managers in England has been among the most evident. From Gianfranco Zola,…
Mauro Camoranesi remains something of an enigma. Shielded away from the appreciation he deserves, almost like a frustrated winger trying to obtain the ball from the protective possession of a determined full-back,…
This feature is part of Virtuoso He burst onto the scene with the sort of gusto that only the greats have ever been capable of. He was quick, intelligent, two-footed and oh-so…
This feature is part of The Football Italia Years The history of Italy can be traced through that of its cities. Each has carved out its own social, cultural and political identity,…
The first stanza of the Argentine national anthem had barely concluded on a balmy summer night in Rome when the camera panned to Diego Maradona. “Hijos de puta,” Argentina’s captain uttered in…
In the summer of 2002, Asian football was thrust into the global spotlight thanks to a highly successful World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The entire planet sat back and revelled in…
As the next instalment of one of Italian football’s fiercest rivalries, this Sunday’s clash between AC Milan and Juventus is hardly in need of a talking point or two to grab the…
“They don’t make players like him anymore’ is the sort of quip that generally coaxes eye-rolls from the super cynical among us. But in Dejan Savićević’s case, that couldn’t be more accurate.…
Inheriting perhaps the most complete team on the planet, Rafa Benitez, haunted by the ghost of José Mourinho, got things all wrong at Inter
The path was clear for Antoine Griezmann. Bayern Munich’s defence had opened up before him and, courtesy of a nicely weighted through ball from Fernando Torres, he was clean through on goal.…
It’s a tournament forgotten to time, sandwiched between France’s epic glories in 1998 and 2000, and just three years before Brazil won the 2002 World Cup, but the 1999 Copa América was…
He woke up groggily, still half-asleep, and looked around. He recognised the room but was less sure about who the two women each side of him were. Sitting up in the ruffled sheets,…