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The fall-out from the Luis Rubiales affair will roll on far beyond the immediate embarrassment incurred by the Spanish Football Federation. Just when Gianni Infantino must have thought he had sailed out into clear blue water. Up until Rubiales, the o

The Italian football world was taken completely by surprise when Roberto Mancini, the man who led Italy to a memorable Euro 2020 triumph in England, resigned as national team boss in mid-August. Few observers had had any idea that Mancini was unhappy

Right beside Honved’s new Bozsik Arena in south Budapest, lifelong fan Istvan Gazso draws an imaginary line. “It was here,” he says, delineating the exact space around him, “where the house was”. He and his fellow supporters who run the independent c

Venture far enough, way down from Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario and the other major Argentinian cities, and you’ll reach the end of the world. Or, as some know it, the beginning of everything. Located near South America’s tip, Ushuaia is the souther

At the age of just 24, the Liverpool-born full-back already has amassed a lifetime of experience at the top table of European club football, clocking up over 50 games in the Champions League and appearing in no fewer than three finals in that competi

Only in a parallel universe will new Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane face the sort of Bundesliga wall of antagonism that awaited another England captain, Kevin Keegan, when the latter swapped Liverpool for Hamburg in the summer of1977. Keegan, then

[EFL GRADUATES] Bournemouth The latest English talent to emerge from the English Football League with a wealth of experience for a 20-year-old. “I think he’ll play for England, for sure, and he’s got the potential to play for one of the top five or s

“I’m on the air right now,” said Aitana Bonmati moments after Spain won the Women’s World Cup in Sydney in August. For those watching the performances of the sinuous midfielder, it appears she has long since been floating on a higher plane. Such were

Ahead of the Croatia v Morocco third place play-off game at last year’s World Cup, most of the people in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, were – as elsewhere in the country – glued to their TV screens. However, at the biggest open market in the heart of

We also preview the U17 World Cup in Indonesia and the A-League season in Australia, review the 2023 US Open Cup – including a deep dive into the competition’s long history – and focus on Braga, the ambitious club trying to turn Portugal’s “Big Three

The year 2003 was a notable one for the sporting rivalry between England and Australia. In cricket, Australia retained the Ashes at the start of the year with a 4-1 series home win before beating England en route to the World Cup two months later; Le

“What’s it like to be playing in the US after arguably the greatest player of all time, Lionel Messi, signed for Inter Miami in the summer? It’s exciting. There are inevitable conversations between everyone in the changing room about his performances

“Before you became Honved’s head coach in 2012, you coached some small Italian clubs. How did the Hungarians find you? It happened almost by coincidence. It was a quite lucky situation. I visited a friend of mine, who has a restaurant in Budapest. At

The women’s season ought to have opened on a wave of anticipation in the wake of a record-breaking World Cup, yet the toxic fall-out from the behaviour of Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales (see panel opposite) left many within the g

“It started with a kiss, I never thought it would come to this.” So sang Hot Chocolate in their 1982 hit single, and the sentiment has never been truer than for Luis Rubiales. The then-Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president grabbing hold

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England’s Lionesses are in action again at the end of October, with their Nations League Matchday 3 clash taking place against Belgium at the King Power Stadium on October 27, before travelling to Leuven for the return fixture four days later. Elsewh

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Real Madrid 3 Schalke 4 2014-15 Champions League last16, Bernabeu Schalke headed to Madrid in March 2015 trailing 2-0 after the first leg, 12 months after a 9-2 aggregate defeat to Real at the same stage the previous season. Yet on a remarkable night