Summer of 1992. Denmark and France face off in the group stage of a major tournament. In a hospital room in Copenhagen, a Danish footballer, who participated in the first two matches of the tournament, watches the game alongside his daughter, who is battling leukemia. To everyone’s surprise, Denmark wins the match and advances to […]
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Since the inception of the Premier League, the landscape of English football has undergone a profound transformation. The league ascended in power, elite teams amassed wealth, the quality of play and stadium experiences improved. However, ascending to the pinnacle became an arduous task, reserved for only an exclusive club of teams. It’s no coincidence that […]
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Two thousand eight hundred and eighty. That’s the number of meters that separate Iruya from sea level, up there in the Andes. Yet, it’s not just the altitude, a bit lower than the summit of Mount Olympus for comparison, that makes it different. La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, sits at 3,640 meters. Its uniqueness […]
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No matter how systems change and football evolves, we often return to its primal questions. Spectacle or outcome? Victory or good football? If the eternal battle between good and evil, spirit and matter, light and darkness could be transposed onto football, then the main role in football’s… Manichaeism would be played by the duo of […]
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Once upon a time in English football, there existed an era when the security guard wouldn’t bat an eye if you stood up, when tickets didn’t cost half a paycheck, when stadiums weren’t quite as secure and pristine, and matches often turned into mud-slinging battles. In such a stadium, a match took place in April […]
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