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 EDITOR

Football reacts to Russian invasion

HEROES & VILLAINS

On the RADAR • Spotlight on the players

Qatar 2022? Italy can take it or leave it

Counting down to Qatar

Reds’ rebuild is right on track

REPORTS WE COULDN’T MAKE UP

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

OBITUARIES

ESM XI FEBRUARY 2022 • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

WorldSoccer Presents

Ghana • National team in need of a rebuild after disastrous AFCON, with World Cup play-offs imminent

Antoine Semenyo • The in-form Bristol City striker could be set for an international switch

Odion Ighalo • The former Premier League striker has had an eventful few months

Saudi Arabia women • History is made as the Middle Eastern country’s first-ever women’s international takes place

Juanmi • Real Betis’ polished diamond is helping Los Verdiblancos’ push for a top-four finish

UNA Strassen • A club punching above its weight in Luxembourg – and perhaps soon Europe

The Hungarian outsiders taking on Budapest’s big boys • Kisvarda FC are a club on a mission

Welsh football looking up

Made in Hale End

Podolski’s Polish homecoming

VINI VIDI, VICI • In 2021, Vinicius Junior graduated from exciting youngster to fully-fledged Galactico. We chart the Brazilian wonderkid’s rise…

TOMORROW’S STARS TODAY Talentscott SAMBA STARLETS

2021-22 SEASON UPDATE

Premier League update

La Liga update

Serie A update

Bundesliga update

Ligue 1 update

“We want to stay in League C” • Estonia coach Thomas Haberli talks to World Soccer about his side’s two-legged Nations League relegation play-out against Cyprus. The winner retains their place in the third tier, while the loser will drop down to Group D

“It was a bad moment for me, and I said it was never going to happen again” • The former Newcastle United and Georgia winger looks back at his playing days, his current role as Anorthosis Famagusta coach and that goal celebration…

TEN OUT OF TEN • There is more to the Ajax coach than meets the eye

6 of the best Uncapped World Cup hopefuls • Jamie Evans takes a look at the players hoping to make their international bows ahead of Qatar 2022

Euro faves warm up for the summer • Leading nations take part in various short tournaments to prepare for this summer’s European Championship

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…

A trip of a lifetime • Guam’s national team has travelled all over the planet to fulfil its fixtures

Who will fall at the final hurdle? • Nations vie for Europe’s final three spots at the 2022 World Cup

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