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 EDITOR

Pandemic prompts “remarkable” transfer window

World Cup qualifying chaos

HEROES & VILLAINS

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

OBITUARIES

Biennial World Cups would change sport as we know it

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Ronaldo is not right for United

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

IN PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Football and Taliban

La Masia 2.0: inside the reboot of football’s most famous academy

PATRICE BEAUMELLE

The most important players in the world… • How and why we selected the World Soccer 500 for 2021

Almoez ALI

Ridle BAKU

Gareth BALE

BRUNO HENRIQUE

Caden CLARK

Crystal DUNN

Kyogo FURUHASHI

Ryan GRAVENBERCH

Roy KRISHNA

Romelu LUKAKU

Nuno MENDES

Lionel MESSI

Guillermo OCHOA

Stefan ORTEGA

PEDRI

Jadon SANCHO

Teji SAVANIER

Facundo TORRES

Ilya ZABARNYI

Nicolo ZANIOLO

New era for women’s football in Japan • First professional women’s league in Japan gets underway

Round-up

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

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

Overcoming obstacles • Football is continuing to survive on the South Atlantic island in spite of several different challenges

Italy eyeing more silverware • Roberto Mancini’s side have the opportunity to add another trophy to the collection just months after their European Championship success

AFC Champions League last 16 round-up • Competition whittled down to final eight, with two leagues dominating

All-Mexican CONCACAF Champions League final • LigaMX clubs once again dominate in the region’s premier tournament

World Cup qualifying update • A turbulent week in Africa, but most of the heavyweights remain on track

Global diary • Games and dates to pencil in for the month ahead

PREMIER LEAGUE 2021-2022

Internationals

Club Football

World Soccer • Autumn 2021 Vol. 62 No. 2

Steve McManaman