World Soccer

Your life made easier - every day. The unrivalled authority on the game of soccer around the world, World Soccer calls upon journalists from the globe's great soccer capitals. The best writers, analytical features and the ability to deliver the inside-track on domestic and world football have made World Soccer an institution. With stunning images and a website delivering up-to-the-minute global results and authoritative insights into the players, politics and power-struggles, the brand constantly looks behind the score-lines. Its insightful writing reaches to the heart of the triumphs, scandals and controversies that constantly emerge in the greatest international sport of them all.

In Pictures • The global game caught on camera

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FROM THE ASSISTANT EDITOR

The month in numbers • Eye-catching facts and stats from the world of football this month…

Roy of the Rovers brought to life • Bobby Charlton was a genius on the pitch and a gentleman off it

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Chasing paradise • Bobby Charlton spent his career pursuing his own football idealism

On the RADAR • Spotlight on the players coaches making waves

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • 31 Moves That Caught Our Eye This Month

OBITUARIES

Bobby Dazzler • Keir Radnedge pays tribute to the legendary Sir Bobby Charlton

Ajax • Dutch giants are in disarray with one crisis following another

Amine Gouiri • French-born forward switches international allegiance to Algeria on eve of AFCON 2023

Prime location • How Morocco became the destination of choice for African football

A brave new world • Saudi Arabia’s takeover of world football continues apace with the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup

A tale of two clubs • Mostar, the unofficial capital of Herzegovina, is a city divided by history, nationality, religion – and football

2023-24 SEASON UPDATE • With Europe’s top five leagues now well underway, our network of correspondents pose the big questions and help tackle the major talking points of the season so far

La Liga update

Bundesliga update

Ligue 1 update

Serie Aupdate

Talent scout

“There is so much more to come from me” • Victor Osimhen is one in a long line of stellar Nigerian centre-forwards, but in many ways he is altogether unique. Oluwashina Okeleji sits down with the Super Eagles goal machine ahead of Nigeria’s quest to win AFCON 2023

AFCON TUG OF WAR • Moving the Africa Cup of Nations to the start of 2024 has presented players and coaches with a headache

AFCON 2023 ABSENTEES • Players likely to be lost to clubs in January

6 of the best Ones to watch in Ivory Coast • Mark Gleeson picks out some of the stars to keep an eye on at the 2023 AFCON finals

“We are building a project” • Democratic Republic of Congo’s head coach looks ahead to the AFCON finals

5 Asian Cup talking points • Asian football expert John Duerden takes a look at the burning issues ahead of the finals in Qatar

6 of the best Ones to watch in Qatar • John Duerden picks out some of the stars to keep an eye on at the 2023 Asian Cup

“We have everything to be a big club” • The Germany international tells World Soccer why she left last season’s Champions League finalists Wolfsburg for Brighton & Hove Albion in one of the summer’s more intriguing transfers

Growing pains for the Women’s Champions League • Early eliminations throw up questions for UEFA as the 2023-24 group stage begins

In the next issue

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

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