Football at the Olympic Games is a curious affair — an unusual history, much like everything that has to do with the sport itself. Over…
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Football is art, a beautiful popular art, an art of the masses. Just as the squares once filled for the commedia dell’arte, so too do the crowds flock to the football theatres in the centuries that followed. And the Dottor emerged from those stories to tell his new stories of football.
The 1920s were a tempestuous decade, following a World War — known at the time simply as the Great War — and what John Reed…
On 10 July 1960, at the packed Parc des Princes in Paris, the very first final of Europe’s major national team tournament took place —…
On 5 July 1982, on a sunny afternoon, the national teams of Brazil and Italy faced each other at the Estadi de Sarrià in Barcelona…
On 4 July 1954, the final of the 5th FIFA World Cup Final took place in Bern, Switzerland. On the pitch, and under the eyes…
On 3 July 1917, just months before the October Revolution, João Saldanha was born in Alegrete, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul. A child of…
On 2 May 1986, just days after the Chernobyl disaster, Valeriy Lobanovskyi’s Dynamo Kyiv faced Atlético de Madrid in the final of the European Cup…