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FROM THE EDITOR

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

HEROES VILLAINS

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

Diego Maradona: a tribute

BOOKS THIS MONTH

How Maradona and Argentina won the World Cup

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

IFAB’s inertia and the overly active VAR

OBITUARIES

Ray CLeMeNCe (1948-2020)

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

Diego • Tim Vickery, Paddy Agnew and Joel Richards reflect on three chapters of Diego Maradona’s story: his role in the national team, his scudetti-winning displays at Napoli, and finally, the outpouring of grief in Argentina after his death was announced on November 25, 2020

Part one: THE WORLD CUPS • Tim Vickery reflects on Diego Maradona’s very different roles at four very different World Cups

Part two: NAPOLI & SERIE A • Paddy Agnew looks back on the highs and lows of Maradona’s time in Italy

Part Three: ARGENTINA SAYS FAREWELL • Joel Richards on the reaction to Maradona’s death in Argentina

“You will never find me saying I’m the best” • In tribute to football great Diego Maradona, we revisit his interviews with World Soccer’s Rino Landa and Keir Radnedge in 1986 after he won the World Cup and World Player of the Year

Lee Dong-gook • Striker finally calls time on a fascinating and eventful career

Bodo/Glimt • With a small budget and an innovative approach, the unfancied northerners have run away with the Norwegian league title

Sassuolo • Italian underdogs flying high in Serie A

Pitso Mosimane • New job for one of African football’s trailblazers

No more years of hurt • Phil Gordon looks back on Scotland’s long wait to qualify for a major tournament

TURKEY • Gunes returns to repeat heroics of 2002

ITALY • Mancini re-building Italy’s reputation after World Cup failure

WALES • Bale and co. chasing highs of 2016 once again

SWITZERLAND • Swiss aiming to take the next step at a major tournament

DENMARK • 29 years on from their greatest moment, Danes eye another upset

FINLAND • Pukki leads Finns to their first-ever tournament

BELGIUM • Pressure is on the world’s No.1 ranked team

RUSSIA • Ageing squad still living off success of 2018

NETHERLANDS • Back at a major tournament after a seven-year absence

UKRAINE • Shevchenko bidding to increase his legendary status

AUSTRIA • Alaba and co. hoping for better than 2016 disappointment

NORTH MACEDONIA • Pandev bidding to make more history at his country’s first tournament

ENGLAND • Southgate aiming to recapture magic of 2018

CROATIA • World Cup finalists head to the Euros with new-look squad

SCOTLAND • Clarke cracks the code to unlock door to major tournament

CZECH REPUBLIC • Czechs make it seven in a row

SPAIN • Thrashing of...