If one tries to find the human activities that simultaneously attract people’s interest on a global scale, it is difficult to identify any that has…
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The countdown is on for the 21st edition of the FIFA Club World Cup, which will take place in an entirely new format in the…
There are some days that feel ordinary, unremarkable, forgettable—just like so many others that never leave a trace. As the hours pass, nothing seems to…
West London is widely known for its affluent neighborhoods—haunts of an old, value-depleted bourgeois class, now in decline, mingling with well-off arrivistes and nouveau-aristocrats from…
On August 17, 2002, two matches took place in different tiers of the vast pyramid of English football. At Bottom Meadow, a ground with a…
On September 4th, 1955, at the Estadio Nacional in Lisbon, the competition that would go on to become the greatest club football tournament in the…
On 30 July 1930, Uruguay and Argentina faced each other in the very first FIFA World Cup final. While that match was inherently historic as…
Football at the Olympic Games is a curious affair — an unusual history, much like everything that has to do with the sport itself. Over…
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…