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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.

Fabio Cannavaro • Spotlight is on the Guangzhou coach ahead of the new CSL season

Flamengo back on top • Rio side seal back-to-back titles on dramatic final day

Talent factory

“We’re in a dark place”

Homegrown heroes • For national champions FC Flora, there’s more to football than just winning

Face to face: Pelle Pohlak

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Time waits for NO MAN SOME MEN • Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Luis Suarez are proving that age is just a number…

the numbers game

Talent Scout

MLS talking points • The 2021 Major League Soccer season kicks off on April 17. James Nalton takes a look at the key talking points ahead of the new campaign

“Over ten years without participating is too long” • With crunch time approaching in the AFCON qualifiers, Mark Gleeson sat down with Mozambique coach Luis Goncalves to discuss his team…

“When I’m retired I can think about winning the World Cup…we are only looking forward” • The France and Real Madrid defender looks ahead to this summer’s European Championship

“I am a better player than I was a year ago” • Portugal’s attack is no longer reliant on Cristiano Ronaldo – thanks, in part, to Atletico Madrid’s €100 million man

“My house was broken into and I was stabbed in the head… I nearly died” • Ahead of a new League of Ireland Premier Division season, Shamrock Rovers manager Stephen Bradley talks about his playing and managerial career

CONNED • In 2013,World Soccer sent Steve Menary on an investigation into the rise of fake agents. Eight years on, the problems have not been addressed

ALL IN THE HEAD • James Kelly delves deep into i-BrainTech: the future of football

The haves and have nots • This year’s SheBelieves Cup tournament has exposed the inequalities in the women’s international game

Round-up

Here we go again • As Europe’s World Cup qualifiers begin on March 24, Nick Bidwell assesses the likely contenders for Qatar

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

Freedom fighters • The Basque national team’s quest for recognition

All at sea • World Cup qualifying begins as Caribbean nations grapple with pandemic issues

Global diary • Stories from the four corners of the football world

African Nations Championship wrap-up • Morocco come out on top in competition for domestic-based players

Rising force • Big-spending Lion City Sailors are bidding to become Singapore’s first super club

Debt and decline • One of Turkey’s most historic clubs are on the brink

Club football

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