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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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…