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.

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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

Football should come home – to Uruguay

The rise and fall of Der Kaiser

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Fear of fatigue invokes memories of 2002

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE • Appointments, sackings and loans

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

Face to face: CIRO IMMOBILE • The 2019-20 ESM Golden Shoe winner discusses his award-winning season, his career so far and this summer’s European Championship…

Joachim Low • 61-year-old to step down as Germany coach after Euro 2020

Patrice Motsepe • South African billionaire lays out his plan as new CAF president

Jamaica • Caribbean nation targeting influx of English-born talent

Mohamed Ihattaren • Mercurial talent faces an uncertain future

Royale Union Saint-Gilloise • Belgium’s third-most successful club returns to top flight

Will Still • Europe’s youngest top-flight coach making waves in Belgium

A special kid • The story of Phil Foden’s meteoric rise, from those who helped him along the way

Closed for business • Chinese Super League prepares to get under way without its reigning champions

Slavia Prague make their mark

World Soccer Presents

Amorim’s Sporting miracle • Sporting have returned to the top of Portuguese football

EURO 2020 ONES TO WATCH • Nick Bidwell casts his eyes over the players to watch out for at this summer’s delayed European Championship

“I am 100 per cent Bayern” • The Bayern Munich and France winger on his career to date and ambitions for the future – including this summer’s European Championship

“This is a very special group of players” • Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois on his team’s chances at this summer’s Euros, and that “Golden Generation” tag…

“I needed to go overseas and get away from England to grow up” • Reece Oxford reflects on life in Germany

Under the radar expats • A growing number of British players are heading abroad to build careers. Tom Scarborough picks out some of the most interesting cases

150 YEARS • On the 150th anniversary of the FA Cup, Keir Radnedge reflects on what has made it the most influential and pioneering cup competition in world football

VICTORY FOR LAPORTA • Sid Lowe reports on Joan Laporta’s return to the Barcelona boardroom

MULTI-CLUB OWNERSHIP • Steve Menary investigates the growing phenomenon…

NWSL preview • New season set to get underway amidst fresh threats to NWSL’s supremacy from Europe

Round-up

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

Beckham continues to build a star-studded Inter Miami • But LAFC, Columbus Crew and Seattle Sounders are among the teams to beat

Mumbai City celebrate winning rare double • Sergio Lobera’s...