Football
Declan Rice is one of the strongest midfielders in the world, but he also has a fun personality, extremely hard to find in the world of football
Can you have the competitive hunger of the greats without taking yourself too seriously? Ask the midfielder, who has shown Arsenal how to win again.
Technology has simplified the lives of referees, and is making football more spectacular: an interview with Pierluigi Collina
The president of FIFA's Refereeing Committee talks about his career, his role, and how it has changed over time. And about the 2026 World Cup, in which Lenovo and artificial intelligence will revolutionise the way matches are officiated, the way the most controversial incidents are resolved.
In Naples, Antonio Conte won and built something important, without leaving rubble behind
The results, the legacy and the ambitions of the azzurri club are markedly different compared to two years ago, when he arrived to put everything back together after a dreadful season. We can say it: mission accomplished.
England and the other national teams that will train in Kansas City for the World Cup will be able to count on security personnel specialised in the neutralisation of drones
Leading the operation will be a former FBI agent who has already coordinated the security of major events such as the Super Bowl and the baseball World Series.
Lukas Podolski has retired and has now become the owner of Gornik Zabrze, the team he would choose as a child when he played football management games
After starting his career as the owner of a chain of kebab shops, the former striker of the German national team has become a sporting entrepreneur: a role he has been cultivating ever since he was little.
Rayo Vallecano is still a true working-class, neighbourhood team, and yet it has reached the Conference League final
A report from Vallecas, where an atmosphere never seen before is being experienced for the most important match in Rayo's history. At the same time, however, the club's identity and political values remain there, intact, very far from contemporary football.
Real Madrid continues to have the most successful and flourishing youth sector in the world
La Fábrica continues to produce money and trophies: the Castilla is in the playoffs to go up to the Segunda, the Juvenil A has won all the tournaments it took part in, including the Youth League.
Deportivo La Coruña’s return to the Liga is a romantic story, but also a very modern one
Behind the Galicians' climb back up there are two indispensable ingredients of every good football project: investment in infrastructure and an excellent youth sector.
The Bank of Scotland has printed a 20-pound banknote with Scott McTominay’s bicycle kick
It is a piece printed in a limited edition, and whoever buys it will also be able to contribute to the work of Crisis Scotland, a charitable organisation that looks after homeless people.
For West Ham, relegation to the Championship represents a true collapse (financial and technical)
The London club is set to lose 50% of its turnover, or even more. But in the players' contracts there were clauses that could limit the damage a little.
Roma in the Champions League proves that if you give Gasperini a team (and freedom of action), Gasperini will reach his objectives
In less than a year, the giallorosso coach has given back ambition and cohesion to a team coming off complicated seasons. And he did it his own way, enduring the tensions within the club, leaning on the pitch, on the players, on the group.
Como in the Champions League is the triumph of ideas, of a project never seen before in Italy
Fàbregas's club and team, thanks to visionary work on and off the pitch, have dismantled quite a few preconceptions and quite a bit of rhetoric. And they have taken a fourth place that, if you think about it, is not so surprising.