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Footballers are plastered with labels and immersed in stereotypes. What you are and the public’s perception of you can easily be on opposite ends of the spectrum. It’s a dynamic and volatile environment: stop to admire the view and you’ll be left behind. Football is ever-changing and things are taken at face value. Even more…
Signed from Belgium outfit Beerschoft by Neil Lennon’s Celtic, Victor Wanyama Mugube has gone on to develop into an integral part of Celtic FC as they look to march onto another Scottish title. He has established himself as one of the only East African footballers to play in a top European league, a feat his elder…
With Brazil having graced the footballing world with five World Cup winning teams and five different FIFA World Player of the Year winners across eight years, there is invariably some excitement and a lot of hype when a young Brazilian player makes it onto the scene. In light of the final nail being hammered into…
Following the mammoth double signing PSG have made in the last week with the backing of their Qatar based owners in the form of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, both of AC Milan, we will look at whether they make it into the top 10 football transfers of all time, and whether these signings have…
Not many people know this, but the tiny South-East Asian island of Singapore is home to one of the oldest youth tournaments in the world: the Lion City Cup. Founded 35 years ago by then-chairman of the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) N Ganesan, it has been credited as the inspiration behind the FIFA World Youth…
Since the start of the Premier League era of English football, twenty years ago, the number of Australian players who have moved from their home country to make a name for themselves in this league has steadily risen. During the first decade of the Premiership’s existence, goalkeeper Mark Bosnich was one of the few really…
La Masia graduate Thiago Alcantara is a player touted as a replacement for the aging Xavi Hernandez, and if his passing stats are anything to go by, Barcelona are in safe hands, as he has a higher success rate than Xavi, but the caveat of that is that Xavi plays more often and in the…
Football may well be a galvanizing force for forging a national conscience, as former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger famously argued, but it also goes some way to reflecting the conscience in which nations are perceived by others. This is not necessarily a symbiotic relationship. The African Cup of Nations is continually and resolutely…
With the African Nations set to begin on the 21st of January 2012 and the final not being played until the 12th of February many Premier League players will leave their sides for a minimum of about four weeks later this month. How will this affect the Premier League clubs who lose players to the tournament? Manchester…
For nearly two months now, the Mauritian Football League has been delayed due to presidential issues in the MFA (Mauritian Football Association)as well as an ongoing battle between the Ministry of Sports and the MFA over funds. At the end of October, FIFA confirmed the national team’s withdrawal from the 2014 World Cup African qualifiers.…