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 Picture • The global game caught on camera

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FROM THE EDITOR

Ukraine’s emotional return to Euros

Qatar locked in as Under-17 World Cup host

Latest setback for ESL

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

The problem with Casement Park • The UK and Ireland’s bid to host the European Championship in 2028 has one glaring issue

BOOKS THIS MONTH

A three-horse race • This season’s Premier League title race is the tightest in 14 years

OBITUARIES

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • 35 Moves That Caught Our Eye This Month

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

OCEANIA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE • As the 2024 OFC Champions League prepares for kick-off, a new tournament is on the horizon for Oceanian clubs

STUCK IN SECOND TIER • Everywhere you look in German football there are teams who have seen better days. Nick Bidwell takes a closer look at some of the 2. Bundesliga’s fallen giants

30 IN-DEMAND COACHES • Ahead of a summer that will be packed with lots of managerial moves and rumours, Nick Bidwell takes a closer look at the most in-demand coaches

‘An elite coach any club would love to employ’

FREE AGENTS

‘Sporting’s first league title winner in 19 years’

‘When he says he is in his dream job, he means it’

‘De Zerbi’s Brighton resembles Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City’

‘The perceived brains behind Germany’s 2014 World Cup win’

‘One of the best readers of the game on the continent’

‘Innovative with a scintillating brand of attacking football’

REST OF THE WORLD

THE CENTURION • Internazionale’s captain and talisman is enjoying the best season of his career

INTERNATIONAL ROUND-UP • World Soccer takes a closer look at some of the standout stories from March’s international break…

POLAND, UKRAINE AND GEORGIA COMPLETE EURO 2024 LINE-UP

WAIT GOES ON FOR SAN MARINO WIN

USA MAKE IT THREE FROM THREE IN CONCACAF NATIONS LEAGUE

CANADA AND COSTA RICA JOIN COPA PARTY IN THE USA

RUSSIA HOST FIRST UEFA OPPONENT SINCE UKRAINE INVASION

ROUND-UP

COLE AS ICE • The rise of Chelsea’s ice-cold attacking superstar

RE-LIVING THE REPLAY • Twenty-five years on from Manchester United and Arsenal’s famous FA Cup semi-final tie, Ryan Baldi speaks to the players that made it one of the defining moments of the era

“To get out of our group, we will need to play fantastic football” • The Hungary coach discusses how his team is shaping up ahead of this summer’s European Championship

“I’m looking forward to this new chapter” • The former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper and France World Cup winner discusses his decision to cross the Atlantic and sign for MLS giants Los Angeles FC

“With 48 teams at the World Cup, a quarter of the matches won’t be interesting” • The experienced Slovenian coach, who guided his home country to qualification for Euro 2000 and the 2002 World...