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World Cup 2022: Why Southgate is still the one for England
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Robbie Earle: How NBC have made America fall in love with the Premier League
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Celtic v Real Madrid: Remembering the last time the two giants did battle in the European Cup
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Diego Maradona, deified in the street art of Buenos Aires
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Women’s Euro 2022: The super fan jetting in from Singapore for the finals
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Nations League: A good idea or a waste of time?
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Newcastle United: How Saudi takeover is affecting football in Yemen
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Why stadium visits mean so much more after Covid-19 closures
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AFCON 2021: How Gambia head coach Tom Saintfiet transformed the Scorpions
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Le Havre: The French club where Pogba, Payet and Mahrez honed their talents
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Titans of the Teardrop Isle: Playing football in Sri Lanka
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Hungarian football and the impact of Viktor Orban
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What it’s like to play professional football abroad
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Brexit, industry and national identity: England’s World Cup run through the eyes of an everyday English town
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Euro 2020 stadiums: Where is the next game being played?
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Trafficking footballers: The criminals profiting from players’ dreams
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The New Saints: Is this Welsh football’s most unpopular club?
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Argentina: Maradona, Messi and the hunt for La Albiceleste glory
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: When the Arsenal played at Heaton Stannington FC
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Marcos Antônio: The Shakhtar Donetsk star heading for bigger things
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When FC St. Pauli supported Hansa Rostock to raise fans’ rights
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Júnior Caiçara: Why title isn’t the end of Basaksehir full back’s European adventure
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Jamie Day: The non-league manager turned international boss
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Why coronavirus could see more South Americans playing in Europe next season
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Peter Butler: The ex-West Ham midfielder tackling global dangers
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Tajikistan’s Vysshaya Liga: The league continuing in the face of Covid-19
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Goal Click: The Women’s World Cup
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When a rampant Bayern Munich tore up the script at Cruyff’s Ajax farewell
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Louis Lancaster, Taiwan manager: ‘My dad wasn’t well when I left and I knew I might not see him again’
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Sven-Goran Eriksson: ‘You have to change a little bit, but my methods are more or less the same everywhere’
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Football’s biggest fairytale: Remembering Iraq’s unlikely triumph at the 2007 Asian Cup
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FC Kitzbühel: The Austrian club revitalised by an English touch
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Forget Martin O’Neill, the problems with Irish football run much, much deeper
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Jürgen Croy is one of Germany’s greatest ever players. So why has no one heard of him?
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Two nights, two games, one city: Attending the Copa Libertadores semi-finals in Buenos Aires
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ISL vs I-League: The battle for the soul and the future of Indian football
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The rise, fall and resurrection of Red Star Belgrade – and why European competition still means so much to them
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Jair Bolsonaro is a throwback to the dark days of Brazil’s military dictatorship. So why do so many footballers support him?
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‘I’ve met kings, sultans, presidents and prime ministers’: The Liverpool-born coach who’s worked in seven Asian countries
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Turki Al-Sheikh: The Saudi sports minister leading the exodus of Brazilian players to Egypt
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The battle for the soul of Belfast Celtic, 69 years after the club folded
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Tasmania Berlin, 1965/66: The worst top-flight team in football history?
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Danny Guthrie: ‘I’m happy in Indonesia… I have no desire to return to England’
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James Keene: The striker from Somerset who’s played in India, Norway, South Africa, Israel and Sweden
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Patrick Suffo on how off-field issues tore Cameroon’s World Cup apart in 2002
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How will hosting the World Cup change Russia’s football culture?
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‘If we had the right resources, we could change the world’ – Behind the scenes at the ConIFA World Football Cup
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In light of Paolo Guerrero’s harsh ban, is football’s drugs policy fit for purpose?
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Football for footballers: When protesting players occupied the French Football Federation
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How a fourth-tier club are leading the fight against racism in German football
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The trials and tribulations of the Afghanistan women’s national football team
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“The best player in Asia” – so why is Omar Abdulrahman still playing in the UAE?
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Mohamed Maouche and the extraordinary story of the FLN football team
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Why the Coupe de France is the greatest cup competition in the world
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How John Gregory rebuilt his reputation in the Indian Super League
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Riches to rags: The rebirth of Gold Coast United, Australia’s most ridiculed team
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Derby day Down Under: Behind the madness and mayhem in Melbourne
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Despite doubts over his attitude, Nabil Bentaleb can be Schalke’s difference maker
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From Birkenhead to Brazil: Interview with Paysandu midfielder Ryan Williams
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Nigeria manager Gernot Rohr on the Super Eagles, the World Cup and coaching Aubameyang
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Tampa Bay Rowdies boss Stuart Campbell on managing Joe Cole and the US soccer boom
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Can Peter Stöger prove himself to be more than a caretaker at Borussia Dortmund?
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The 50-Year-Old Footballer: Kazuyoshi Miura’s Remarkable Longevity
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Nigel Pearson interview: On the challenge at Belgian club OH Leuven
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Charlie I’Anson: The Englishman Seeking Another Shot at La Liga with Granada
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What Would Roy Hodgson Do? Martin Foyston On Coaching In Norway
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Freddy Rincón: Unpicking the Personal from the Product
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The Former Liverpool Goalkeeper Flying High At The Top Of The Bundesliga
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Crvena Zvezda: Remember The Name
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The Chilean plot to steal a place at the 1990 World Cup
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Flying the flag for Azerbaijan: The story of FK Qarabag
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From Nought To Sixty: The Western Sydney Wanderers Story
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Far-Flung Adventures: From Manchester United to first-team football in Luxembourg
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Chigoli: Changing The Game In Malawi
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Tackling discrimination in the highest football match ever played
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Paulinho to Barcelona could be one of the most important transfers in football history
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La Copa Mundial de Futbol de las Naciones Olvidadas
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The World Football Cup of Forgotten Nations
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St.Pauli: The punk club with commercial appeal
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The women’s team putting Amazonian football on the map
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Is the face of football fandom changing or has the mask merely slipped?
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All Quiet On The Eastern Front: Homegrown Talent At The Centre Of China’s Football Future
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“You don’t have too many real friends in football” – Matt Derbyshire interview
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Meet the English manager plotting to take down Galatasaray in the Europa League
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Will 2017 bring a Brazilian winner in the Copa Libertadores once again?
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Calcio Storico: Florence’s brutal alternative to football
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Remembering Stephane Paille, one of France’s greatest unfulfilled talents
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Remembering Ahn Jung-hwan’s Golden Goal against Italy and the strangest World Cup subplot
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The Organs of Estadio Vicente Calderón
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Trepca ‘89: The first Kosovar club in the Champions League
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Former Tottenham Coach Anthony Hudson Aims To Make Impact With New Zealand At Confederations Cup
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Marseille’s Champions Project
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The Champions League Final’s Global Expansion
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Ederson is the latest product of Portugal’s player factory
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Interview with Tim Sparv, the ‘no-stats all-star’
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Henry Onyekuru Profile: From the Aspire Academy to Arsenal?
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Exploring China’s Football Culture at The Shanghai Derby
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The Death of a Dream: Tracing the History of FC Yerazank
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