On the northern bank of the Meuse, a schoolboy carries, in a builder’s wheelbarrow, some of the materials he needs in order to build a…
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On the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 November 1953, 150,000 spectators left Wembley having just witnessed one of the most influential matches in the evolution of…
The hours of Sunday pass by, the sun has already crossed its zenith and is now on its way to the oceans, leaving the Mediterranean…
The history of football is lost in the depths of humanity’s historical existence, with the search for the reasons why our species became involved with…
The years after 2020 were not like the ones before—everything had changed, and so had we. We were no longer the small and wronged; we…
In 1944, Greece was liberated from the Nazi yoke by the EAM and its armed wing, ELAS. On the 12th of October 1944, the last…
In the 1950s, the world—and therefore football—was rediscovering the state it had left behind before the war. Economies were booming, but the evolution of all…
Greek football may not boast either grandiose moments that one cannot find in the footballing history of the rest of the world, nor such vast…
Football is, at its core, an athletic phenomenon, but by extension, also a social one. This dual nature often makes it difficult—or even ethically ambiguous—for…
On the 1st of November 1897, Belgium was under the rule of King Leopold II, one of the most brutal colonizers ever to walk the…