
World Football


Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: When the Arsenal played at Heaton Stannington FC

Marcos Antônio: The Shakhtar Donetsk star heading for bigger things

When FC St. Pauli supported Hansa Rostock to raise fans’ rights

Júnior Caiçara: Why title isn’t the end of Basaksehir full back’s European adventure

Jamie Day: The non-league manager turned international boss

Why coronavirus could see more South Americans playing in Europe next season

Peter Butler: The ex-West Ham midfielder tackling global dangers

Tajikistan’s Vysshaya Liga: The league continuing in the face of Covid-19

Goal Click: The Women’s World Cup

When a rampant Bayern Munich tore up the script at Cruyff’s Ajax farewell

Louis Lancaster, Taiwan manager: ‘My dad wasn’t well when I left and I knew I might not see him again’

Sven-Goran Eriksson: ‘You have to change a little bit, but my methods are more or less the same everywhere’

Football’s biggest fairytale: Remembering Iraq’s unlikely triumph at the 2007 Asian Cup

FC Kitzbühel: The Austrian club revitalised by an English touch

Forget Martin O’Neill, the problems with Irish football run much, much deeper

Jürgen Croy is one of Germany’s greatest ever players. So why has no one heard of him?

Two nights, two games, one city: Attending the Copa Libertadores semi-finals in Buenos Aires

ISL vs I-League: The battle for the soul and the future of Indian football

The rise, fall and resurrection of Red Star Belgrade – and why European competition still means so much to them

Jair Bolsonaro is a throwback to the dark days of Brazil’s military dictatorship. So why do so many footballers support him?

‘I’ve met kings, sultans, presidents and prime ministers’: The Liverpool-born coach who’s worked in seven Asian countries

Turki Al-Sheikh: The Saudi sports minister leading the exodus of Brazilian players to Egypt

The battle for the soul of Belfast Celtic, 69 years after the club folded

Tasmania Berlin, 1965/66: The worst top-flight team in football history?

Danny Guthrie: ‘I’m happy in Indonesia… I have no desire to return to England’

James Keene: The striker from Somerset who’s played in India, Norway, South Africa, Israel and Sweden

Patrick Suffo on how off-field issues tore Cameroon’s World Cup apart in 2002

How will hosting the World Cup change Russia’s football culture?

‘If we had the right resources, we could change the world’ – Behind the scenes at the ConIFA World Football Cup

In light of Paolo Guerrero’s harsh ban, is football’s drugs policy fit for purpose?

Football for footballers: When protesting players occupied the French Football Federation

How a fourth-tier club are leading the fight against racism in German football

The trials and tribulations of the Afghanistan women’s national football team

“The best player in Asia” – so why is Omar Abdulrahman still playing in the UAE?

Mohamed Maouche and the extraordinary story of the FLN football team

Why the Coupe de France is the greatest cup competition in the world

How John Gregory rebuilt his reputation in the Indian Super League

Riches to rags: The rebirth of Gold Coast United, Australia’s most ridiculed team

Derby day Down Under: Behind the madness and mayhem in Melbourne

Despite doubts over his attitude, Nabil Bentaleb can be Schalke’s difference maker

From Birkenhead to Brazil: Interview with Paysandu midfielder Ryan Williams

Nigeria manager Gernot Rohr on the Super Eagles, the World Cup and coaching Aubameyang

Tampa Bay Rowdies boss Stuart Campbell on managing Joe Cole and the US soccer boom

Can Peter Stöger prove himself to be more than a caretaker at Borussia Dortmund?

The 50-Year-Old Footballer: Kazuyoshi Miura’s Remarkable Longevity

Nigel Pearson interview: On the challenge at Belgian club OH Leuven

Charlie I’Anson: The Englishman Seeking Another Shot at La Liga with Granada

What Would Roy Hodgson Do? Martin Foyston On Coaching In Norway

Freddy Rincón: Unpicking the Personal from the Product

The Former Liverpool Goalkeeper Flying High At The Top Of The Bundesliga

Crvena Zvezda: Remember The Name

The Chilean plot to steal a place at the 1990 World Cup

Flying the flag for Azerbaijan: The story of FK Qarabag

From Nought To Sixty: The Western Sydney Wanderers Story

Far-Flung Adventures: From Manchester United to first-team football in Luxembourg

Chigoli: Changing The Game In Malawi

Tackling discrimination in the highest football match ever played

Paulinho to Barcelona could be one of the most important transfers in football history

La Copa Mundial de Futbol de las Naciones Olvidadas

The World Football Cup of Forgotten Nations

St.Pauli: The punk club with commercial appeal

The women’s team putting Amazonian football on the map

Is the face of football fandom changing or has the mask merely slipped?

All Quiet On The Eastern Front: Homegrown Talent At The Centre Of China’s Football Future

“You don’t have too many real friends in football” – Matt Derbyshire interview

Meet the English manager plotting to take down Galatasaray in the Europa League

Will 2017 bring a Brazilian winner in the Copa Libertadores once again?

Calcio Storico: Florence’s brutal alternative to football

Remembering Stephane Paille, one of France’s greatest unfulfilled talents

Remembering Ahn Jung-hwan’s Golden Goal against Italy and the strangest World Cup subplot

The Organs of Estadio Vicente Calderón

Trepca ‘89: The first Kosovar club in the Champions League

Former Tottenham Coach Anthony Hudson Aims To Make Impact With New Zealand At Confederations Cup

Marseille’s Champions Project

The Champions League Final’s Global Expansion

Ederson is the latest product of Portugal’s player factory

Interview with Tim Sparv, the ‘no-stats all-star’

Henry Onyekuru Profile: From the Aspire Academy to Arsenal?

Exploring China’s Football Culture at The Shanghai Derby

The Death of a Dream: Tracing the History of FC Yerazank

Serge Gnabry’s breakthrough Bundesliga season

Meet the university student supplying football kits to Africa’s biggest underdogs

Paderborn fight to avoid German relegation record

Doing it their own way: The Union Berlin story

Ty Sandows interview: The South African competition winner making a name for himself in Brazil

The rebirth of Venezia FC

Meet the gay Mexican football team looking to win big in Trump’s America

Heroes and Villains at Napoli’s San Paolo

Bayern vs 1860 – Derby Day In Munich

Far-Flung Adventures: Daniel Ting on moving from Manchester to Malaysia

The Brain at Work: How Two Germans Want to Change Football

Giovani dos Santos interview

Far-Flung Adventures: Former Chelsea youngster Aziz Deen-Conteh

Kaka interview: “We are changing the image of MLS”

David Villa interview: ‘I’m not even thinking about retirement’

Far-Flung Adventures: Terry Fenwick, from marking Maradona to managing in the Caribbean

Michael Beale interview: The Liverpool coach who moved to Sao Paulo

Can Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka learn from discipline problems of the past?
