2019-04-01 World Soccer

OBITUARIES Carlos FLORES (1974-2018) The youngest of 11 children who were effectively abandoned by their parents and left to cop ...

Full marks to The Sunday Times’ Insight team for another masterly expose of the malfeasance of FIFA and Qatar, who were so outra ...

No system, however mechanically sophisticated, can guarantee justice in football, but the VAR innovation seems likely to be larg ...

SLOVAKIA eye witness Steve Menary reports Viktor Orban widens his net Hungary’s controversial prime minister is using football t ...

Oszkar Vilagi watches pensively from his VIP box. Five years after buying FC DAC, his club are playing the biggest game in their ...

OJAN KOVACIK Elected president of the Slovak FA in 2010, re-elected in 2014 and again last year. OPAVEL HAPAL Took Slovakia to ...

FC DAC 1904 The club from the tiny Hungarian-speaking town of Dunajska Streda were promoted to the top flight in 2013 after winn ...

Sid Lowe reports Dani Carvajal summed it up in a single word but the sight of him – and of the man behind him – said so much mor ...

written on Carvajal’s face. Three defeats in seven days, all of them at the Santiago Bernabeu, had seen Madrid knocked out of ev ...

1,012 days their days are numbered now: 88 left and counting down. By the time the Final comes around, 14km across town at the M ...

yet their destruction had deep roots; the conditions for crisis went back further. Absurd though it sounds, winning the European ...

Team from Madrid’s suburbs scaling unlikely heights in La Liga Getafe W hile attention focused inevitably on Barcelona’s victory ...

partnership. Mata’s 13 goals by the middle of March was a record for a player in his first season in Spain’s top flight and took ...

Benfica coach takes “new boss bounce” to the extreme Bruno Lage A t the turn of the year, Benfica fans had all but written off t ...

PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THE NEWS Legend whose last days were spent in poverty Pierre Ndaye Mulamba PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THE NEWS O ...

France midfielder frozen out by PSG Adrien Rabiot E ven a United Nations team of peace brokers would be hard pressed to find a s ...

B y the standards imposed on many of his contemporaries, Corentin Martins^ must consider himself somewhat fortunate to have been ...

Ajax number 10 thriving in the Champions League Dusan Tadic F rench paper L’Equipe said Dusan Tadic’s Champions League performan ...

PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THE NEWS board member, asked his son Daley to return from Manchester United, scout Henk Veldmate had the ta ...

The Mauro & Wanda Show The career of Inter’s Argentinian striker, supported by his agent wife, is at a crossroads Words: Pad ...