Velez Sarsfield is living proof that with hard work and self-belief, anything is possible. In the space of just a couple of years in the early 1990s, the Buenos Aires outfit went from being a modest club side to conquering first Argentina, then South America, and finally the world. Until the unforgettable glory days of … Read more
Barely three years after hanging up his boots, the Russian Valery Karpin is a successful businessman with a profile very different from your typical ex-player. The former Real Sociedad and Celta Vigo star, whose career took off at Spartak Moscow alongside Dmitry Radchenko, Alexandr Mostovoi, Dmitry Popov, and Robert Jarni, played professionally for 17 years … Read more
United Soccer Association consisted of teams based in North America and the United States. After just one season, the league merged with the National Professional Soccer League to become the North American Soccer League. The teams in the league were all imported clubs from Europe or South America that had “local” names applied to them. … Read more
Everyone has their own opinion on the Lionel Messi vs. Ronaldo saga, which has raged on for many years. These days, even those who believe that players like Salah, Coutinho, and Neymar should be involved in that debate. But what if Pelé was still playing today? Would there even be a debate on who the … Read more
Representative soccer between English football associations was a popular form of the game in the 1870s and 1880s. Although some might claim that it began with the match on 31 March 1866 played between a London FA side and a Sheffield eleven, the team from South Yorkshire, rather than being chosen from several clubs, was … Read more
You could be forgiven when driving past the present-day Liverpool Ramblers football club for thinking that the game in progress is no more than an everyday local match, but this is not the case on closer examination. Liverpool Ramblers FC is the only club to link the Merseyside area with the very origins of the … Read more
Hiroshi Nanami’s silky skills and lethal left foot were vital to Japan’s qualification for the FIFA World Cup and Jubilo Iwata’s dominance of the J.League in the late 1990s. The History Of Soccer team explores the career of the former playmaker, who shares his thoughts on his time playing alongside Hidetoshi Nakata, adapting to the … Read more
Every World Cup usually has at least one surprise in store, and as this list of World Cup upsets proves, sometimes those surprises are so huge that no one could have possibly seen them coming. Here is our list of the biggest upsets in World Cup history. Germany Beat Brazil 7-1 In 2014 The 2014 … Read more
In 2006, a soccer match between the Netherlands and Portugal was called the Battle of Nuremberg. It took place in the round of sixteen of the World Cup, with the winner meeting England in the quarter-finals. In a match as historic as soccer itself, this match unfolded in Nuremberg’s Frankenstadion on June 25th and produced … Read more
Argentina vs England 1966 World Cup quarter-final at Wembley is one of the most enduring matches in the history of soccer. While England’s extra-time victory over West Germany effectively sealed by Geoff Hurst’s controversial goal is perhaps the most abiding memory of the 1966 World Cup finals, there was another significant controversy earlier in the … Read more