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 EDITOR

Taison suspended for racism protest

HEROES & VILLAINS

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

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

Keir RADNEDGE • THE INSIDER

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • Appointments, sackings and loans

Paul GARDNER • GLOBAL VIEW

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

Jim HOLDEN • AT THE HEART OF THE GAME

Hansi Flick • Former right-hand man of Joachim Low replaces Niko Kovac at Bayern

Daniel Levy • Spurs chairman who fired Pochettino and hired Mourinho

Robert Moreno • Tearful number two steps aside for Luis Enrique

Carlos Vela • Mexican voted the best player in MLS

All eyes on Bucharest • An unusual draw will take place in the Romanian capital on November 30

The Teams

West Bank hosts historic meeting with Saudi Arabia

Ostersund dream is fading fast • Club that rose rapidly through divisions is hit by series of blows

POWER LIST 100 A-Z • The most important and influential people in the world game today…

Andrea AGNELLI • Italy, Juventus chairman, ECA chairman

Alejandro DOMINGUEZ • Paraguay, CONMEBOL president, FIFA Council

Gianni INFANTINO • Switzerland, FIFA president

Megan RAPINOE • USA, player

Sheikh SALMAN bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa • Bahrain, AFC president, FIFA vice-president

Surprise packets • Nick Bidwell selects the key players for some of this season’s unexpected successes

The Portuguese boy wonder • Atletico Madrid’s teen sensation is the third-most expensive player of all time

Timeline

Talent scout • WINGERS

Courage flourish after heading south • Franchise moves pay off for reborn clubs

Round-up

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

The wait for a classic goes on • Seattle win disappointing season finale

Global diary • A comprehensive record of recent events around the world

Underdogs miss out • But narrow World Cup exit brings new hope for minnows

Ecuadorians triumph in Asuncion • Independiente del Valle beat Argentina’s Colon in one-off Final

Park’s World Cup vision • South Korean coach gives Vietnamese hope

Historic first for Brazil • Hosts beat Mexico to win world title

Club football

World Soccer • December 2019 Vol 60 No 4

GERMANY: BUNDESLIGA 2019-20

WYDAD V RAJA • Of all the games, in all the towns, in all the world…the Casablanca derby