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 THIS ISSUE…

In Pictures • The global game caught on camera

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The underappreciated Ashley Cole is a big asset for England

The hidden depths of Big Dunc Finally…

The Golden Ball • The history of the Ballon d’Or

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Real Madrid’s Mbappe muddle • With so many attacking players to choose from, the European champions have a riddle to solve

On the RADAR • South American Apertura 2024 newcomers

THE BIGGEST DEALS OF SUMMER2024

The month in numbers • The facts and stats that have caught our eye in the world of football this month…

OBITUARIES

FC Noah • The Conference League debutants from Armenia have packed a lot into their seven-year history

Larne • Northern Irish champions’ meteoric rise continues

The New Saints • The Cymru Premier’s first-ever European qualifiers

Saud Abdulhamid • Saudi Arabia right-back goes against the tide by moving to Europe

Jamal Lewis • Northern Ireland left-back completes unlikely move to Sao Paulo

Luis Suarez • Uruguay legend ends his international career

Fashion and football

Inscrutable, calm, respectful • Memories from the press box of England under the late Sven-Goran Eriksson

A New Era • Nick Bidwell explains the newly revamped UEFA Champions League

The exodus from the over-achievers • The squads of four surprise qualifiers for the Champions League have been ransacked, writes James Kelly

The Favourites

The Heavyweights

The Dark Horses

The Outsiders

Play-Off Qualifiers

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: 2024-25 FIXTURES

Destination Bilbao • Nick Bidwell casts his eye over the leading candidates in the 2024-25 Europa League

More change • The Conference League is also bracing for a new era, as Nick Bidwell explains…

POCKET ROCKET • The rise of England’s diminutive new midfielder

“Give me the chances and I can put the ball in the net” • Harry Kane was the Premier League’s top scorer on three occasions, but it was only after joining Bayern Munich and scoring 36 Bundesliga goals that he followed in the illustrious footsteps of Eusebio, Gerd Muller, Marco van Basten, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. After being presented with the 2023-24 Golden Shoe by the European Sports Media group, which includes World Soccer, the England captain discussed his new life in Germany

“I didn’t even know where Charlotte was, but it’s been the best decision of my life” • The former Burnley and Aston Villa midfielder sits down with World Soccer to discuss his new life in MLS, rubbing shoulders with Lionel Messi, and what the future holds

ON THE MARCH • Why York United are the poster boys for Canadian Premier League ambition

League FOCUS

New season set to get underway • A look ahead to the 2024-25 campaign across Europe’s five major leagues

Round-up

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

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