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

CAF facing tough questions over Olembe Stadium disaster

International loan rules overhauled

HEROES & VILLAINS

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

MOST EXPENSIVE DEALS INJANUARY TRANSFER WINDOW

Football, cryptocurrency and NFTs

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Poor pitches, dismal refs and negative football: the problems with AFCON 2021

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

THE WORLD THIS MONTH

OBITUARIES

Belgian league • The ups and downs of one of Europe’s most intriguing top flights

Noa Lang • A precocious young Dutch talent with a history of falling out with his coaches

Lorenzo Insigne • The Napoli legend’s surprise move to MLS side Toronto FC

Angel Di Maria • In a team of huge egos, the selfless Argentina winger is the key man

Mohamed-Ali Cho • The teenager making significant strides for Ligue 1 side Angers

Ricardo Pepi • The Bundesliga’s latest hot American prospect

This town ain’t big enough for all of us

There must be something in the water

World Soccer Presents PLAYER OF THE YEAR

THE NEXT SPECIAL ONE? • His name is Ruben Amorim and he’s a phenomenon. Not since Jose Mourinho burst onto the scene almost two decades ago has a debutant coach had such an explosive impact on Portuguese football

Question time

Ones to watch • Nick Bidwell picks out 12 players to keep an eye on in the knockout stages

Ones to watch • Who can take their team to the first-ever Europa Conference League title?

ADIFFERENT BALL GAME • How football’s transfer market is becoming more like the NBA

The grass is getting GREENER • World Soccer explores the measures that football is taking to help prevent climate change

“Every Irish club wants to qualify for Europe andwe are no different” • New Dundalk manager Stephen O’Donnell talks about his playing and managerial career, and looks ahead to the new League of Ireland season

“Chelsea taught me almost everything that I know” • After rubbing shoulders with some of Europe’s finest talents in Chelsea’s academy, Ugbo has forged his own unique career path

“I’m Serbian in my heart, but Britain ismy home country” • At the age of 38, Nestor El Maestro’s love of coaching has already taken him all over the world

China are champions of Asia • The Steel Roses seal a record ninth victory in the Women’s Asian Cup

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…

Half the world away • Clubs from the small Indian Ocean Island continue to make a name for themselves in the French Cup

Senegal claimtheir first AFCON title • Talisman Sadio...