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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

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

HEROES & VILLAINS

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

Solskjaer scepticism remains

Jules Rimet: FIFA’s greatest president, 100 years on

The misunderstood Marcelo Bielsa

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • Appointments, sackings and loans

OBITUARIES

NEW! From the publishers of WorldSoccer • World Soccer Presents

Wayne Rooney • England and Manchester United legend hangs up his boots

Guus Hiddink • Experienced coach bidding to reach his fourth World Cup with Curacao

Chelsea • Roman Abramovich hires his 11th full-time manager since 2003

Phil Neville • Manager leaves England women to reunite with team-mate David Beckham at Inter Miami

Ravel Morrison • The troubled midfielder is searching for the 12th club of his career

Ligue 1 • Broadcasting dispute puts French top flight in financial jeopardy

Homecoming

Inching closer

From a Lagos dumpsite to Africa’s most expensive footballer • The extraordinary and unlikely story of Napoli and Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen, told by the people who knew him first

Africa’s newest international team

Son SHINES • The Tottenham forward is enjoying the best season of his career, and he’s put in the hard yards to get here

Timeline

Question time

Ones to watch • Nick Bidwell selects the players to watch out for in the last 32

January transfers • Jamie Evans rounds up the most eye-catching deals from the January transfer window

“It doesn’t matter what I said yesterday, but what I’ll say tomorrow” • In 2019-20, Dejan Stankovic won the Serbian league title with Red Star Belgrade, the club where he grew up. Now he wants more…

“Liverpool will always be the priority for me” • Taiwo Awoniyi joined Liverpool in 2015, but is yet to secure a work permit to play in the Premier League. A World Cup winner with Nigeria Under-17s, the striker is doing his best to prove himself to Jurgen Klopp and his parent club in his latest loan spell at Bundesliga underdogs Union Berlin

LIFE AFTER COVID • Steve Menary examines how European football’s financial landscape may look after the pandemic

Jury out on Phil Neville • Tenure as Lionesses manager comes to an end after three years

Round-up

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

Champions of the world • Bayern Munich complete sextuple of trophies in Qatar

Palmeiras are crowned champions of South America • Sao Paulo side win all-Brazilian final, while Argentine side Defensa y Justicia lift the Copa Sudamericana

The month in numbers • The facts and stats that have caught our eye in the world of football this month…

Getting back to work • Brunei have only played five matches in the last four years

A fitting tribute •...