Brazil players registers protest at fixture congestionThe protests took on a number of guises, with players in the match between Sao Paulo and Flamengo kicking the ball back and forth from one team to ...

The Japanese Football Association has withdrawn from the bidding to host the 2018 World Cup. However JFA president Motoaki Inukai has confirmed that they would continue with a bid to stage the 2022 ...

French playmaker Zinedine Zidane has described the 1-0 quarter-final win over Brazil as "beautiful". Zidane, who was inspirational on the night, said: "We needed a great match and we delivered. We ...

In this issue… The transfer window might be long closed, but we’ve signed some new additions to give us a boost for this issue. First, World Soccer stalwart Steve Menary begins a new feature taking a ...

Tim Vickery reports on the continuing football violence in Brazilian football which the authorities are struggling to contain.

Multi-club ownership is a new buzzword in football, particularly in Europe, due to the activities of the City Football Group – owners of Manchester City – and the Red Bull Empire, which stretches from ...

The scoreline is familiar, as is the fateful date, but surely the title for this article should be ‘The Hand of God’? Everyone knows that this was the game when England’s brave Three Lions and the ...

A simple internet search of Gigi Lentini garners sparse results, and what crumbs that do manifest the majority have one of two addendums attached, namely "Car crash" or "Transfer". Here's the true ...

Sometimes miracles can happen; at least where football is concerned. Just 22 years ago Kaiserslautern defied the odds by winning the Bundesliga. They’d won it once before, but this was even more ...

Cagliari Calcio are an altogether unremarkable football club. For much of their existence they have been a yo-yo team, alternating between promotion and relegation and oftentimes languishing in the ...

Don’t be fooled by the broad smile that seems etched upon his face. If the explosive Tottenham and South Korea forward is now established as a Premier League, Europe-wide and Asian sensation, it’s ...

New details have emerged about the controversial ‘doping’ of the West German team who shocked the game by defeating Hungary 3-2 in the 1954 World Cup Final.