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.

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In Pictures • The global game caught on camera

FROM THE EDITOR

GLOBAL FOOTBALL INTELLIGENCE

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

Euro 2024 met the criteria for a great tournament

Goals we’d like to see again

From Elland Road to Stateside • Two former Leeds United managers shone at this summer’s Copa America

Euro 2024: Hosts deliver • Germany wasn’t perfect, but a major tournament back in one footballing nation was most welcome

BOOKS THIS MONTH

The cult of the individuals • Coaches building teams around one individual held back some of the strongest squads in Germany

OBITUARIES

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • 52 Moves That Caught Our Eye This Month

THE BIGGEST DEALS OF SUMMER 2024

SPAIN CROWNED KINGS OF EUROPE ONCE AGAIN • Luis de la Fuente’s side proved themselves as worthy winners of Euro 2024

THINGS WE LEARNED

A TO Z

PLAYERS OF THE TOURNAMENT

TEAM BY TEAM group-stage exit

TEAM BY TEAM round-of-16 exit

TEAM BY TEAM Quarter-final exit

FINAL

SEMI-FINALS

QUARTER-FINALS

ROUND OF16

GROUP A

GROUP B

GROUP C

GROUP D

GROUP E

GROUP F

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Argentina’s dominance continues

Goals we’d like to see again

TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT

TEAM BY TEAM

Copa chaos • 2026 World Cup dress rehearsal leaves a lot to be desired

Visas, sickness and unplayable pitches • The challenges of international football in the Caribbean

‘LIKE GOING FROM CANDLES TO ELECTRICITY’ • How AI is transforming recruitment in football

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

New Zealand take another Oceania title • While the All Whites retained the OFC Nations Cup with ease as expected, the tournament itself proved anything but predictable

Winning in the rain • Atletico Bucaramanga seal their first-ever title in Colombian Apertura after rain-soaked final

A new tournament is born • The first edition of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Club Championship will kick off in August

Battle of the leagues • For the second time in its short history, the Leagues Cup takes place in an expanded format involving all teams from the United States’ MLS and Mexico’s LigaMX

Operation rebuild • After initial World Cup progress, Nepal were forced to completely rebuild their team

In the next issue

Global diary • Games and dates to pencil in for the month ahead

2024 OFC NATIONS CUP

2024 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

2024 COPA AMERICA

Internationals

Club Football

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