To many footballers, the opportunity to represent their country on the international stage represents the pinnacle of their career and players are not counted as truly successful unless they make an impact in the colors of their national team. While club football might have more fortune and popularity, being chosen to don the national colors … Read more
The world of football management is a very dicey one and when things go smoothly, the players more often than not receive most of the adulation, while the manager’s head rolls when things go south. Regardless of the volatility of the job, managers are the brains behind the results, as they spend countless hours perfecting … Read more
The World Cup is unarguably the biggest and most prestigious competition in footballing history and winning the trophy ranks high on the wish-list of every world-class footballer. Every four years since 1930 (apart from the years during World War 2), the best nations in the world gather to contest for the title of being the … Read more
Although we often refrain, or better still avoid to comment when those things happen but the football world has been grossly involved in deep controversies many times. This can be excused as the game is played and judged by humans, and as we all know, humans are not perfect. It might be that we presume … Read more
When we are looking at players who have lit up the European football world, it will not be far – fetched to look towards England. True, as hard as they might be trying, they have not been able to replicate the kind of performance that won them the World Cup in 1966 – but it … Read more
Football is a contact sport and, as such, the probability of a player getting booked before a game ends is always very high. While some footballers are generally noted for avoiding bookings, others have carved a reputation for always getting into the referee’s book. For instance, a player can get booked for many reasons: it … Read more
Brazil legend Pele dubbed football as the Beautiful Game and it’s quite wonderful if one thinks about it. This is a game where the sole objective of a team is to put a ball in the back of the net. 22 players are pitted against each other in two groups of 11 and their sole … Read more
The Ballon d’Or is the biggest award that a soccer player can receive, it is delivered once a year by the FIFA with judges of the French magazine “France Football” in the most important awards ceremony for soccer players. This prize awards the best player of the season taking as reference his work throughout the … Read more
