In 1962, The World Cup jamboree travelled to Chile on the west coast of South America, that narrow strip of a country...
The history of the World Cup is replete with tales of epic encounters. In 1950, Uruguay drove an ice-cold dagger into the...
Santiago, the capital of Chile, was enjoying a balmy summer afternoon on 17 June 1962. The hot sun beat down, precluding almost...
Italy faced the Netherlands in the second season of the UEFA Nations League in the second week of September 2020 and kept...
In 1888, as the first football league season was born in England, Brazil passed the ‘Golden Law’ abolishing slavery in the last...
The history of football in the latter years of the 1950s and the early ones of the following decade is dominated by...
In October 2017, Arjen Robben decided to retire from international football after his country missed out again on a second consecutive major...
Hendrik Johannes Cruijff is one name that reverberates around the annals of football history. Nothing short of a footballing powerhouse, Cruyff has...
A longstanding intense football rivalry between the Netherlands and Germany has lessened with time. The post-war hatred, especially from the Dutch side,...
There was surprise among the management team at Liverpool FC when Manchester United agreed to pay £12.24 million for Cristiano Ronaldo in...