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 ASSISTANT EDITOR

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

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

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Jonathan WILSON • TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

IN PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

OBITUARIES

DO YOU WANT TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL SCOUT? • Football Scouting Worldwide are making it easy and accessible for anyone to become a first team football scout

Face to face: Steve Simmons • FOOTBALL SCOUTING WORLDWIDE’S MANAGING DIRECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL SCOUT

Evergreen Joaquin • As the Real Betis legend prepares for another La Liga season at the age of 40, David Whitworth looks back over his career at the Benito Villamarin stadium

PAEEK: a club in exile

Right to Dream

Arctic FC

City will take some beating - with or without Kane

Brentford a breath of fresh air

PSG determined to end embarrassment

Brugge bidding to dominate

Bayern cherry-pick Bundesliga’s best with ten in a row in sight

Dominant Ajax strengthen with controversial transfer

Allegri’s return makes Juve the team to beat again

Ange tasked with toppling Rangers

Same contenders, different approaches

Another tight title race

Fans getting ready to return

Women’s Champions League gets a revamp • New format more in line with men’s equivalent, including a new anthem

Round-up

“I’m creating the future today” • Before sealing his £23 million move to Leicester City, the Zambia striker sat down with World Soccer to talk about his journey so far…

“You play to win, you don’t play to earnmoney… You need to feel it” • The Universidad Catolica coach talks basketball, derbies and the Copa Libertadores

“Goals where I sniff out a chance are like my pay cheque” • Three years ago Adam Le Fondre was a Bolton Wanderers outcast; now he’s a goalscoring legend on the other side of the world. Here, the former Reading striker tells World Soccer about his remarkable journey and how to be a poacher…

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

A tough balancing act • Japanese legend Keisuke Honda is attempting to combine playing, coaching and ownership all at the same time

Copa Libertadores update • Quarter-finals set to begin, with Brazilian clubs making up half of the final eight

Champions League update • Mexican dominance set to continue with three semi-finalists from LigaMX

Al Ahly win their tenth Champions League title • Final proves to be a step too far for South African underdogs Kaizer Chiefs

Melbourne City claim first A-League title • Club owned by City Football Group overcome a number of challenges to lift trophy

Global diary • Games and dates to pencil in for the...