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

Tributes pour in for Pele

The month in numbers • Eye-catching facts and stats from the world of football…

The King

BOOKS THIS MONTH

The man of a thousand goals

Pele in numbers • The best facts and stats from the Brazil icon’s astonishing career…

Pele in the USA

OBITUARIES

The road to Istanbul • This year’s Champions League final will be played at the location of one of the most famous finals in the competition’s history: Liverpool’s 2005 victory over Milan

OREI • Tim Vickery pays tribute to the king of Brazilian football

‘It would be impossible for a player today to put together a career like mine again’ • In tribute to Pele, we re-visit quotes from his interviews with Robert Alexander and Keir Radnedge, which were published in World Soccer in 1986 and 1992

Saying goodbye to Pele

New clubs, folded clubs and corruption

Juventus • Investigation into alleged financial irregularities could cost club dear

Garang Kuol • Can the Australian become “the next Harry Kewell” in the Premier League?

Venezuela • South America’s whipping boys have their sights set on the 2026 World Cup

Casa Pia • Lisbon minnows taking the Portuguese league by storm

BRING IT ON • Newcastle United’s record signing is facing the biggest challenge of his career. But, as his former coaches point out, the Sweden striker has taken on plenty already…

THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO… • The Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League knockout stages

World Soccer Awards 2022 • THE RESULTS OF OUR 41ST ANNUAL AWARDS – AND THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED SHAPE THE GAME OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS

KING LEO • Lionel Messi is named World Soccer’s Player of the Year for a record sixth time, while Lionel Scaloni and Argentina complete a clean sweep for La Albiceleste

LIONEL MESSI • World Player of the Year

LIONEL SCALONI & ARGENTINA • World Manager Of The Year, World Team Of The Year

SARINA WIEGMAN, ENGLAND & BETH MEAD • Women’s World Manager of the Year, Women’s World Team of the Year & Women’s World Player of the Year

YURIY VERNYDUB • The ex-Sheriff Tiraspol coach quit his job to fight in his home country

WALID REGRAGUI • The up-and-coming coach worked minor miracles in 2022

JOSE MOURINHO • The managerial maestro continues to be “The Special One”

ALI DAEI • Ex-Iran striker among those to express their support for the Iranian protests

ENDRICK • The Brazilian teenage sensation was one of the breakout stars of 2022

SONIA BOMPASTOR • Record-breaking coach led Lyon back to the top of the women’s game in 2022

SAM KERR • The Chelsea and Australia superstar was in a league of her own in 2022

IAN WRIGHT • One of the nation’s favourite pundits is a champion of the under-represented

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