SOCCERTRAINING

Anybody who knows anything about football will tell you that the winning run that Manchester City are on is an astonishing feat. But if...

Imagine for a moment that Las Vegas was awarded an NBA team. But they’re not like most franchises. They’re named ‘Los Tigres de Las...

There is a line in Julian Barnes’s masterpiece The Noise of Time, a novel about the splendid Russian-Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich,...

Four games into the season, Sassuolo sit unbeaten in 2nd in the Serie A table, having outscored all teams in the division bar Atalanta....

The Champions League group stage draw hadn’t even finished when neutral fans across the continent began to share their excitement with...

Massimiliano Allegri has had a fantastic coaching career to date. Since his first appointment at Aglianese in Italy’s Serie C2 in 2004,...

“I’m an absolute dinosaur. But what I am, I’m a winner” was Sir Alex Ferguson’s words on Manchester United’s end of the season awards...

Eddy Prugh is a professional footballer from the United States. It hasn’t always looked as that would be the case though. In this...

Italian football have seen it’s fair share of journeymen strikers who move from various clubs, delivering at some while underwhelming at...

Between 2008 and 2010, Italian football fans were spellbound by two men’s combination play in the shirts of Sampdoria as the deadly...

Francesco Totti’s last ever game for his beloved AS Roma was always going to be an emotional occasion. Still, few probably anticipated...

Adem Ljajić is one of the most divisive footballers of his generation. After making waves as a wonderkid in his native Serbia at Partizan...

When this decade comes to its close on New Year’s Eve in December 2019, one of the teams to have defined the decade in football will be...

Every once in a while, a new young player bursts on to the scene and gains widespread acclaim for their quality and promise. It’s not...

Goals, goals, goals. That must be what Alberto Gilardino thinks of about 90 % of the time he spends awake. When asleep, he definitely...

Over the last decade in football Sweden has largely been synonymous with Zlatan Ibrahimović. The talismanic striker has conquered country...

Three weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending Barcelona-Granada at the Camp Nou. That concluded one of my aims of visiting the largest...

As part of a new series, we use the power of photography to tell the stories of the greatest and most influential footballers in the...

As part of a new series, we use the power of photography to tell the stories of the greatest and most influential footballers in the...

As part of a new series, we use the power of photography to tell the stories of the greatest and most influential footballers in the...