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The Wizards FC was a team of former schoolfriends who - with the help of a few star ringers - slogged their way through mud, skinheads and Staffordshire bull terriers to win the Edmonton Sunday League. Team captain Ewan Flynn brings alive a world of young men giving it their all on sloping pitches a...

Coaching a team at this level also means facing daily difficulties, confronting others, produce ideas, take decisions on many fronts, dictate rules and ensure that those rules are followed. Players themselves, during the season, will acknowledge that compliance with the rules and discipline represent...

Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the new global football superstar, already acclaimed as ‘the next Pelé’. He is the player everyone wants to watch in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, his home country. With Santos, the team where Pelé played, he has reached three national Championships and has twice...

England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its primary sporting purpose, the World Cup in England is examined within the complexity of the cultural, social and...

Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane--to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?'--this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game. In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers,...

Harry Green and Luke Linden grew up in the same small Lancashire town but their paths only really crossed when they were thrown together by a violent incident at university. The two became lifelong friends and after years apart building separate careers, they both meet again in the town of their birth....

L’OUVRAGE - Autobiographie Ses 85 millions d’euros de commissions cette année ont fait le tour du monde. Comme le transfert cet été le plus cher du foot français, Anthony Martial de Monaco à Manchester United 80 millions d’Euros. Le Portugais gère les carrières de Cristiano Ronaldo,...

Davanti a noi, ora, non ci sono più due schizofrenici, uno psicotico, tre depressi, un ansioso eccetera. C’è un gruppo di giocatori, di amici, che si prepara a un Mondiale. Sono finiti, trascorsi, i mucchi di giorni incolori, le settimane scomparse, sacrificate al nulla. Al loro posto, adesso,...

The story of Portsmouth Football Club has never been dull. Between 1970 and 2005 Pompey had been threatened with bankruptcy three times, reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup, dropped from Second to Fourth Divisions and climbed all the way back to the old First Division they left in 1959. Under Chairman...

Half a century on from his Wembley hat-trick, England World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst risks controversy as he narrows down football’s finest to a select 50. Which of his 1966 teammates have earned their place among the all-time greats? Would he have had Franz Beckenbauer in his XI ahead...

This is the tale of two cities divided by football and united by tragedy. The story begins in enmity when United's Busby Babes face Santiago Bernebeu's Galacticos in the 1957 European Cup semi-final. United were a team made up of hand-reared British and Irish youngsters who had conquered British football...

Lionel Messi is universally recognised as one of the greatest footballers of all time. From his childhood days kicking a ball on the streets of Rosario, Argentina, through his rise at the Barcelona academy, Messi has dribbled, dazzled and fired his way into the footballing elite. In this innovative...

En quelques matches, au coeur de l'été 2011, JAVIER PASTORE, recrue en or massif (42 millions d'euros, record français) du Paris Saint-Germain, a séduit les inconditionnels du beau football. Cet élégant joueur, longiligne et créatif, enflamme tous les stades où il se produit. Depuis...

Cristiano Ronaldo Antoine Grynbaum et Marco Martins Jeune prodige, joueur du Sporting de Lisbonne, de Manchester United puis du Real Madrid, Triple détenteur du ballon d'or FIFA (2008, 2013 et 2014), Cristiano Ronaldo impressionne par son investissement de tous les instants dans le travail...