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

Infantino calls for end to female ban

HEROES & VILLAINS

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

Jim HOLDEN • AT THE HEART OF THE GAME

Keir RADNEDGE • THE INSIDER

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PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • Appointments, sackings & loans

OBITUARIES

Brian GLANVILLE • THE VOICE OF FOOTBALL

Ansu Fati • Barca teen in demand ahead of Under-17 World Cup

Djamel Belmadi • Algeria coach combining the best of both Europe and Africa

Samson Siasia • Disgraced coach banned for life

Romelu Lukaku • Inter striker highlights Italian football’s ongoing problems with racism

Famalicao • Shock league leaders in Portugal – with help from Jorge Mendes

EURO 2020 • The countdown starts here!

“Modern footballers need a lot more intelligence” • Ukraine’s coach talks about the challenges he is facing in the Euro 2020 qualifying campaign

ENGLAND CRUISING TO THE FINALS

UNBEATEN UKRAINE KEEP IT TIGHT

GERMANY STRUGGLE WITH THE TRANSITION

IRISH GRINDING OUT THE RESULTS

CROATIA SEEKING NEW FACES

SPAIN ON COURSE DESPITE TRAGEDY

POLES ON COURSE AS BRZECZEK FINDS HIS FEET

TURKEY THRIVING AS GUNES TURNS TO YOUTH

BELGIUM TURN ON THE GOALS

SO FAR SO GOOD FOR MANCINI

HITTING NEW HEIGHTS • Following his summer move to Real Madrid, the pressure on Eden Hazard is greater than ever

Timeline

Long road to Wembley • A record 47 countries enter 2021 Euros

ROUND-UP

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

Delay does no harm • World Cup starts with a win despite lack of league action

Colombia join World Cup chase • Uruguay’s 2030 dream comes under threat

The weaker nations close the gap • Continent’s World Cup qualifiers get underway

A-League soap opera continues • Clubs take charge as league expands

Internationals

World Soccer • OCTOBER 2019 Vol 60 No 2

ITALY: SERIE A

RACING V INDEPENDIENTE • Next-door neighbours make El Clasico de Avellaneda a real local affair