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101 Years that Romanian team Astra Giurgiu – who knocked West Ham United out of the 2015-16 Europa League – existed before having their professional status stripped in January. 251 Consecutive La Liga matches played by Athletic Bilbao’s Inaki Williams, a record streak that was brought to an end by the winger’s injury in January. 7 Minutes that it took Dortmund’s Sebastien Haller to hit a hat-trick in a friendly v Basel in January – his second match since undergoing treatment for testicular cancer. 26 Ex-Chelsea players that have gone on to score against them in the Premier League after Willian netted against the Blues for Fulham. No club has conceded as many goals to former players. 83,500 Capacity of Sydney’s Stadium Australia, where the 2023 Women’s World Cup’s opening…

SOMETHING IN THE WATER By Callum Murray (Pitch Publishing, £16.99) This book explores the inner workings of England’s talent hotbeds, investigating how these areas so often create elite footballers. Bringing together the thoughts of those involved at every level – from the south London estate cages and working-class northern towns, to the heights of the Premier League – it unearths the secrets of two distinct types of hotbed that represent the past, present and possible future of English football. FEELING LEEDS By Raiford Guins (Pitch Publishing, £16.99) Gaze into the curious world of the football fan not born and bred in the shadow of their club’s ground. From paying $20 to watch Leeds United matches in Florida via dodgy satellite feeds to seeing the Whites clinch a late winner against…

“Roberto Dinamite was one of the greatest players in the history of our football. In addition to joining Vasco’s beautiful history, he enchanted football fans all over the world”Brazilian Football Confederation president Ednaldo Rodrigues pays tribute to Brazil legend Roberto Dinamite Roberto DINAMITE (1954-2023) Dinamite was one of the finest Brazilian strikers of his generation. He went to two World Cups, hitting three goals as Brazil finished third in1978 and watched the 1982 finals from the bench, ending his career with 20 goals in 38 games. Yet it was his displays for his club side Vasco da Gama that really forged his reputation. He holds the all-time scoring records for Vasco, the Rio state Championship and the Brazilian national championship, while he also played more games for Vasco than any other…

When, just days after the World Cup, it was announced that Mexico’s 37-year-old goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa had signed with modest Serie A outfit Salernitana, many fans scratched their heads. In 2019, after a long career in Europe, “Number13” had returned to Club America, the team that saw him play his first professional match, and it was thought that he would play there for the last years of his successful career. However, Ochoa has never been a conventional player. He made his debut for America at the age of 18, the most powerful team in Mexico, and very quickly became a big fans’ favourite. At only 21, he was selected as a reserve goalkeeper for Mexico at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and there began a relationship with the national…

As the players of AEK Athens and Panathinaikos lined up ahead of their January meeting, a thick layer of smoke hung above the pitch, delaying the kick-off by ten minutes. Even after some of the smog had cleared, flares continued to illuminate the OPAP Arena throughout the match as the home supporters sought to create as fierce an atmosphere as possible. Pyrotechnics are a common sight in Greek football, but this game had more than most; the latest meeting of Athens’ biggest clubs was more than just a local derby – it was a top-of-the-table clash. The last time that the two sides finished in Greece’s top two was in 1995-96. Usually, they are chasing Olympiakos, whose domination of the Greek Super League is hard to overstate. The Piraeus-based club…

Shamrock Rovers will be bidding to make it four titles in a row when the League of Ireland Premier Division season kicks-off on February17. The Hoops have achieved that feat once before, between1984 and 1987, when they established themselves as the most successful team in the country. Yet within a year of that title they had lost their home ground, Glenmalure Park, and their place at the top of the Irish game. For the following 22 years, the Hoops played their home games at various Dublin venues until finally securing a lease on the new Tallaght Stadium in 2009. During their nomadic period, Rovers only won the league once, in 1993-94, but returned to winning ways once they had a permanent home. In their second season in Tallaght, the Hoops…

MILAN WHO WILL BE MILAN’S ATTACKING TRUMP CARD? Facing a Tottenham Hotspur defence prone to inconsistency and unforced errors, the Rossoneri will be optimistic that their front-line partnership of Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leao will be able to fire them to their first Champions League quarter-final since 2012. The partnership of golden oldie target man Giroud and the lively, mobile Leao, still only 23, has proved a key element in Milan’s renaissance, and if Spurs manager Antonio Conte is to justify his reputation as a defensive mastermind, he will have to find a way to neutralise the pair. Easier said than done. The 36-year-old Giroud, who especially caught the eye at the World Cup in Qatar and now installed as France’s all-time top scorer, is highly effective when laying the…

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Review The final of the 2023 Gulf Cup summed up the tournament: not much quality but huge excitement nevertheless. Iraq defeated Oman 3-2 after extra-time to become champions of the eight-nation biennial tournament for the first time since 1988. Despite being on home soil and cheered on by 60,000 fans at Basra International Stadium, they made hard work of it. Ibrahim Bayesh, one of the standout stars, gave Iraq a first-half lead. But, eight minutes from the end, Salah Al Yahyaei missed a penalty that would have levelled matters before making amends with another spot-kick in the tenth minute of stoppage time. Extra-time was fairly quiet until the latter stages of the second period as Amjad Attwan restored Iraq’s lead with just four minutes to go, also from the spot.…

Preview The 28th season of Major League Soccer gets underway ahead of a potentially era-defining period for the sport in the US and Canada. On the back of appearing at the 2022 World Cup, both nations with clubs in MLS are now looking ahead to 2026 when they will co-host the next World Cup with Mexico. Just as USA ’94 led to the creation of MLS and its inaugural season in1996, the World Cup’s return to these shores 30 years later could have a similarly seismic effect on the sport domestically, which has so far bubbled under the surface in the region. Football is primed to become a national game alongside the more traditional American sports, but what path this growth takes, and if it happens at all, will be…

Women’s World Cup warm-ups Ahead of this summer’s World Cup, the leading contenders are preparing by taking part in mini-tournaments around the globe in February. The United States will defend the SheBelieves Cup, with Japan, Brazil and Canada joining them. In Australia, the World Cup co-hosts will take on the Czech Republic, Spain and Jamaica in the Cup of Nations, while France welcome Denmark, Uruguay and Norway for the Tournoi de France. La Liga v Premier League It’s the stuff of dreams for Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and the other European Super League advocates: the two biggest clubs in England and Spain going toe-to-toe in the space of one month. Liverpool face Real Madrid in their Champions League last-16 clash on February 21, two days before Barcelona travel to…

EUROPE 2022-23 SPANISH SUPER CUP Semi-Finals Jan 11 – Riyadh Real Madrid1 (Benzema 39 pen) Valencia1 (Lino 46) AET. Real Madrid win 4-3 on penalties Real Madrid: Courtois – Vazquez (Carvajal 68), Militao (Mendy 74), Rudiger, Nacho; Valverde (Ceballos105), roos, Camavinga (Modric 46); Rodrygo (Asensio 84), Benzema, ViniciusJunior. Valencia: Mamardashvili – Correia, Comert, Ozkacar, Gaya; Lato (Moriba 95), Musah (Foulquier 95), Almeida (Guillamon 95), Kluivert (Duro 73); Lino (Perez 82), Cavani. Jan 12 – Riyadh Real betis 2 (Fekir 77, Loren101) Barcelona 2(Lewandowski 40, Fati 93) AET. Barcelona win 4-2 on penalties Ral betis: Bravo – Ruibal (Sabaly 78), Pezzella, Luiz Felipe, Miranda; Rodriguez (Guardado 86), Canales (Carvalho 46); Luiz Henrique, Fekir (Moron 90), Rodri (Juanmi 78); Iglesias (WillianJose 67). Sent off: Guardado 118. Barcelona: Ter Stegen – Roberto (Christensen…

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After a breathless few months – the World Cup, end of the South American domestic season and culmination of league campaigns in East Asia and Eastern Europe – we attempt to take stock in this issue. Keir Radnedge looks at the landscape of the world game post-Qatar, Glenn Moore tackles the issue of player burn-out in the women’s game, and Jamie Evans reviews the trends of the latest January transfer window – along with highlighting the biggest and most intriguing deals. But the relentless machine that is the football calendar continues full steam ahead. Nick Bidwell poses the big questions ahead of the UEFA Champions League last 16 – as well as focusing on the players to watch in the Europa League and Europa Conference League knockout rounds – while…

The revival of Newcastle United has added a fascinating new element to the Premier League title race this season. Strong investment in players by the Saudi Arabian owners is part of the explanation, of course, but equally important has been the astute work of manager Eddie Howe in moulding a dynamic team. Howe’s excellence and instant impact should be no surprise, but clearly was to many observers – perhaps because he is a member of that endangered species best described as the “Lesser Spotted English Football Manager”. At the time of writing, he was one of only four permanent English first-team bosses in the Premier League (along with Gary O’Neil, Graham Potter and Sean Dyche). Four out of 20: an absurd figure. The contrast with other major leagues is stark:…

As Manchester City drew against Everton at home and lost to archrivals Manchester United away, and Arsenal won at Tottenham in the North London derby and then beat United at the Emirates to go five points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a game in hand, the thought suddenly began to crystallise: maybe this Arsenal are the real thing. Maybe they are not merely title contenders, but the favourites. It is still relatively early days. Arsenal’s win over United was the halfway point of the season. Yet it took them to 50 points, making it one of the strongest first halves of a season in Premier League history. It is a tally that City themselves, despite all their recent dominance, have bettered only once: the record-breaking…

SEASON RANKINGS Cumulative votes through the season GOALKEEPERS Thibaut Courtois (Real Madrid) 13 Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa) 7 Wojciech Szczesny (Juventus) 6 Yann Sommer (Bayern Munich) 4 Alisson (Liverpool) 3 Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG) 3 Kepa Arrizabalaga (Chelsea) 2 Diogo Costa (Porto) 2 David de Gea (Manchester United) 2 Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona) 2 Ederson (Manchester City) 1 Rafal Gikiewicz (Augsburg) 1 Gregor Kobel (Borussia Dortmund) 1 Mike Maignan (Milan) 1 Simon Mignolet (Club Brugge) 1 Juan Musso (Atalanta) 1 Rui Patricio (Roma) 1 Nick Pope (Newcastle United) 1 Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal) 1 Geronimo Rulli (Ajax) 1 Brice Samba (Lens) 1 Kevin Trapp (Eintracht Frankfurt) 1 DEFENDERS Kim Min-jae (Napoli) 14 Joao Cancelo (Bayern Munich) 12 Theo Hernandez (Milan) 12 Eder Militao (Real Madrid) 11 David Alaba (Real Madrid) 10 Ruben…

The return of Luis Suarez to Nacional of Uruguay last year was part romantic, part preparation for the World Cup, giving him enough game time to get in shape for Qatar. In the event, his tournament was a mixed bag. He looked hopelessly off the pace in the opening game – a goalless draw with South Korea that would prove fatal – was a little sharper off the bench in the last 20 minutes against Portugal, and came across as something closer to his old self in the 2-0 win over Ghana, setting up both goals in the victory that painfully proved just insufficient to ensure qualification for the knockout stages. The question, then, did not receive a definitive answer: is Suarez a spent force? At the age of 36,…

It’s derby day in the Swiss city of Lausanne. Inside the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Stade Lausanne Ouchy’s hardy ultras are being drowned out by their rivals from Lausanne-Sport, but on the pitch the city’s smaller club look a better bet for promotion this season. Lausanne lies on the shores of Geneva and, when it comes to sport, is more usually associated with the Olympics, with the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee located in the city. The two local football teams are less high profile, playing in the country’s second tier. SLO only turned full-time four years ago but go into the Swiss Challenge League game in third place, six points and one place ahead of Lausanne-Sport. At one level, the game is a derby between Lausanne’s two…

Which Italian club has the richest owners? No, not Juventus, Milan or Internazionale, nor even Silvio Berlusconi’s Monza. Surprisingly, the correct answer is Como, the Serie B club that has been under the control of Indonesian brothers Robert Budi Hartono and Michael Bambang Hartono since 2019. When the Hartono brothers arrived, the club from Lombardy was in Serie D, the fourth level of Italian football and highest non-professional league, rebuilding after a tragic bankruptcy that almost erased a club that has competed in Serie A 13 times. They finished as high as sixth place in1949-50, and spent five consecutive years in the top flight during the1980s. In 2002, they became the first Italian team in history to achieve back-to-back promotions from Serie C to Serie A. Yet they only lasted…

Last year was a good one for Saudi Arabian football. The Under-23 team won the Asian Championship for the first time, scoring13 and conceding none as they defeated hosts Uzbekistan in the Tashkent final. The biggest story, however, seemed clear; the unforgettable victory over eventual winners Argentina in November that kick-started the World Cup into life. But then, on the penultimate day of the year, the Saudi Professional League made headlines around the world. That is because Al Nassr FC announced that they had signed Cristiano Ronaldo in a deal reportedly worth around £150 million a year. Within a few days on Twitter alone, the post was seen by 30 million people. Just weeks after Manchester United terminated his contract following an explosive television interview in which he criticised the…

Review The 2022 AFF Championship confirmed what many observers of this football-mad region of 650 million people have known for much of the past decade: that Thailand and Vietnam are clearly at the top of the tree. But the burning question remains: can either of them become genuine continental forces and qualify for the 2026 World Cup? Fans in the Land of Smiles won’t be worrying about that just yet as they relish another deserved title. The failure of Southeast Asian teams to get to World Cups or challenge consistently at Asian Cups means that the regional competition is a big deal, although this edition did drag a little, lasting almost as long as the World Cup. Each of the ten teams, split into two groups of five, played two…

The 2023 J. League kicks off with the clash of the titans. Kawasaki Frontale, champions four times in the past six seasons, host the new defending champions, Yokohama F. Marinos, on the opening night of Friday, February17, with the rest of the league commencing over the rest of that weekend. Yokohama head coach Kevin Muscat is looking for more of the same entertaining, attacking football that worked so well for the club in 2022 and must have been a lot of fun to play as well as to watch. Preview Yokohama come into 2023 with three big gaps to fill. Tomoki Iwata, the resourceful defender and 2022 J. League Player of the Year, has become the latest J. League star to follow Yokohama’s former manager Ange Postecoglou to Celtic. Two…

“Unfortunately, Ziyech was not done and these are the hazards of the transfer window…the responsibility does not lie with PSG”PSG coach Christophe Galtier on the club’s failed attempt to sign Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech ■ EUROPE Premier League January spending dwarfs the rest of Europe Enzo Fernandez’s £106.8 million move to Chelsea completed a record-breaking January transfer window. The World Cup winner’s British record transfer from Benfica ensured that this January window was the most expensive ever. In a window that highlighted the widening financial gap between the Premier League and the rest of Europe, English top-flight clubs spent a total of £815m – in addition to the £1.9 billion spent last summer – a £520m increase on last January, and almost double the previous winter record of £430m, set…

So, now that the 2022 World Cup is history, what to expect in the long-awaited post-Qatar era? All peace and light, love and joy in the cause of the beautiful game? After all, a human rights clause has been slotted into World Cup regulations. A box ticked. A wrong righted. So that’s OK then? The rainbow armband storm prompted three of the Nordic federations to say that, like Germany, they would not vote for Infantino in the FIFA election… It will not make any difference. The deadline for candidates has come and gone The World Cup should have drawn a line under the scrapping and scuffling but a bitter legacy will drag on, at least until Gianni Infantino is re-elected as FIFA president in Kigali, Rwanda, on March16. Sometimes it…

“I’ve been contemplating this for several months and deciding it’s the right time for me to retire internationally”Manchester United defender Raphael Varane on his decision to quit playing for France “We would have liked to have seen Isco with us, but we have our limits. These were exceeded today, contrary to the previous agreement, so the transfer does not take place”Union Berlin sporting director Oliver Ruhnert on Isco’s collapsed transfer to the club EUROPE Atletico Madrid signed right-back MATT DOHERTY on a free transfer from Tottenham, while Brazilian centre-back FELIPE left the Spanish club to join Nottingham Forest. He was joined at the City Ground by midfielder JONJO SHELVEY (Newcastle), and attackers GUSTAVO SCARPA (Palmeiras) and ANDRE AYEW (Al Sadd). Following the departure of Spanish right wing-back PEDRO PORRO on…

“Wales. Golf. Madrid. In that order.” The slogan that Gareth Bale became synonymous with after celebrating his country’s qualification for Euro 2020 will need to be updated after the 33-year-old ended his football career and announced that he would take part in a PGA Tour event in February. “Delighted to announce I will be playing in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am at the start of next month!” Bale revealed on social media in January. The event itself took place from February 2-5 (just after this issue of World Soccer went to print). According toJon Rahm, currently the world’s third-best golfer, Bale is more than ready to compete. “He’s already good enough,” said Rahm. “When he can actually practise more, he’s going to get a lot better…he is a very, very…

Change is afoot for Albania. In January, the Albanian Football Association (FSHF) appointed the country’s first-ever non-European manager, in ex-Arsenal, Barcelona and Corinthians left-back Sylvinho. The Brazilian brings with him fellow former Brazil international Doriva, who has managed a host of Brazilian clubs and worked with Sylvinho at Corinthians, with the duo also joined by former Argentina and Manchester City right-back Pablo Zabaleta in his first coaching role. At surface level the appointment appears to represent a move away from the rigid defensive style that Albania have adopted over the past decade. It was an approach that served Gianni De Biasi well, as the Italian guided the Eagles to their first-ever major tournament at Euro 2016. His team was built with every player thinking defensively first: a 4-3-3 formation that…

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, Georgia has produced a handful of exciting players – from Georgi Kinkladze at Manchester City, to Kakha Kaladze at Milan and Shota Arveladze at Ajax and Rangers – but the current generation of breakthrough talent is undoubtedly the most exciting. The current national team has only lost one of their last12 matches – a friendly defeat to Morocco ahead of the World Cup – and won five out of six games in their Nations League campaign to earn promotion to League B, which will move them a step closer to reaching their first-ever major tournament. With the national team’s average age just 26.4 years old, this is only the beginning; Georgia has a team for the future, and evidence of that can be…

“Simon Mignolet is one of the most level-headed footballers you could ever wish to meet. The 34-year-old exudes calmness and consideration; both his love and knowledge of football are evident, but it also becomes clear that the game is far from his only passion. In addition to his goalkeeping duties for Belgian champions Club Brugge, he also has a degree in political science and runs his own coffee company. He is much more than Champions League victories and international caps. Mignolet is currently enjoying his fourth season with Brugge since leaving Liverpool to return to his native Belgium in 2019. He’s already racked up well over100 appearances for the Blue And Blacks, lifting the league title in each of the last three seasons, and in September signed a new deal…

When UEFA delayed the hosting decision for the 2025 Women’s Euros to April there may have been a few elite players wondering if the actual finals could be put back a year. While any international footballer relishes a major tournament, for some it might be too much of a good thing. The 2025 Euros will be the fifth successive summer in which there has been a major international tournament and after two events of that cycle bodies are already breaking down. The voting for the Ballon d’Or Feminin 2022 revealed five of the top 18 players were out of action with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, including the top two, Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas and, attending the presentation on crutches, Arsenal’s Beth Mead. Mead’s team-mate Vivianne Miedema, Catarina Macario and Marie-Antoinette…

Senegal are double African champions – of sorts – after adding the African Nations Championship to the Cup of Nations success one year ago. The first was won with a bevy of European-based stars, led by the talismanic Sadio Mane, but success in this year’s CHAN tournament in Algeria came with a squad of unknowns. The African Nations Championship is for quasi-national teams, made up of home-based players only, and previously won by countries with strong domestic championships. But this is not true of Senegal, whose league and clubs are notorious underachievers. No Senegalese side has ever won any of the annual African club competitions, never mind even reached a final. Since the African Champions League was launched in1997, only two Senegalese teams have made it to the group stage…

The CONCACAF Champions League (or “Concachampions”, as it is affectionately called in the area), is ready to start its 2023 edition, and it will do so with a notable difference regarding previous editions. For the first time in the last 17 years, the defending champions will not be a Mexican club but an American one. Or it would be if they were present. However, Seattle Sounders, who brilliantly won the final of the previous edition against Mexican side Pumas UNAM, failed to renew their ticket after a very disappointing season in MLS. The Rave Green couldn’t even qualify for the MLS Cup play-offs, finishing11th in the Western Conference in the regular season. Nevertheless, the four American representatives have good credentials to try to retain the title for their country. The…

A first AFF Cup appearance in 26 years proved painful for Brunei, but the tiny nation from the island of Borneo is looking to use the tournament to kick-start development. The ASEAN Football Federation’s tournament is for12 countries in South East Asia. Brunei appeared in the first event in1996 but did not return until the latest AFF Cup. After beating Timor Leste 6-3 on aggregate in a qualifier, Brunei faced three opening games in six days in Group A against regional heavyweights – a tough proposition for a side lacking regular match experience. Three late goals consigned them to a 5-0 defeat in their opener against Thailand, and another five were shipped against the Philippines with Razimie Ramlli getting a consolation, before a sobering 7-0 thrashing from Indonesia. Technical director…

2022 AFRICAN NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP Group A Jan 13 – Algiers Algeria1 (Mahious 57 pen) Libya 0 Jan 14 – Algiers Ethiopia 0 Mozambique 0 Jan 17 – Algiers Algeria1 (Mahious 52) Ethiopia 0 Jan 17 – Algiers Mozambique 3 (Melque 78,Jone 80, Lau Ha King 85) Libya 2(Chico 23 og, Saltou 90+3) Jan 21 – Algiers Mozambique 0 Algeria1 (Dehiri 7) Jan 21 – Annaba Libya 3 (Abu Arqoub 44, Al Abbasi 50, Saltou 78) Ethiopia1 (Panom 39 pen) Group B Jan 14 – Annaba Dr congo 0 Uganda 0 Jan 14 – Annaba Ivory coast 0 Senegal1 (Mo. Ndiaye 80) Jan 18 – Annaba Dr congo 0 Ivory coast 0 Jan 18 – Annaba Senegal 0 Uganda1 (Karisa 33) Jan 22 – Annaba Senegal 3 (O. Diouf 23, Diallo…