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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FROM THE ASSISTANT EDITOR

THEWORLD THIS MONTH

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

VAR has created as many problems as it solves

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Comparing Pep with Mikel

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

Written in the stars: Napoli’s stunning Scudetto

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THEWORLD THIS MONTH

On the RADAR • Spotlight on the players and coaches making waves

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

Barcelona • The departure of legendary captain Sergio Busquets spells the end of an era for the Spanish champions

Budafoki • A team of former prodigies inspire second-tier club to stunning cup run

Burnley • Vincent Kompany achieves impressive title win in his first season with Burnley

Rakow Czestochowa • Polish underdogs complete remarkable rise by winning the league title

UEC • A new organisation to represent the clubs outside of Europe’s elite

The rise and rise of Larne FC

The godfather of penalties • World Soccer takes a trip to Prague to chat to the man behind football’s most famous penalty

Minnows no longer • Why Luxembourg are dreaming of a first major international tournament

ONE NIGHT IN VIENNA • How Manchester City won their first – and, at the time of writing, only – European silverware: the 1970 European Cup Winners’ Cup

United States chaos hands advantage to World Cup co-hosts • Canada and Mexico can take advantage of USA’s off-field issues at the 17th CONCACAF Gold Cup

Underdogs and lightweights • From Caribbean minnows to former World Cup qualifiers, 12 teams will play-off for the three remaining places at the 2023 Gold Cup

6 of the best CONCACAF Gold Cup stars • Steve Menary highlights six players to keep an eye on during this summer’s tournament

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NEW FACES • John Duerden, Martin del Palacio Langer and Jamie Evans profile some of the new international managers recently appointed around the globe

FRANKLY SUPERB • Thomas Frank is showing that his Brentford side are no one-season wonders

“Everyone wants football to grow” • Ahead of their participation at the Island Games, Greenland’s head coach discusses the team’s pursuit of more football

“There’s still a gap between the top nations but it’s slowly closing” • The head coach of the South Africa women’s team assesses her country’s chances ahead of the upcoming World Cup in Australia and New Zealand

Homecoming queen • Starring at a World Cup on home soil is the perfect opportunity for Sam Kerr to crown herself the queen of the women’s game

Comeback kid • Alex Morgan has returned to the United States Women’s national team set-up just in time for her fourth World Cup

Unstoppable force • Even at the age of 40, Canada’s talismanic captain and all-time record scorer remains as determined as ever to...