Football
Now everyone wants to go to Elversberg’s tiny stadium, not just to support the team but also to discuss business that has little to do with football
Most of the requests, however, come not from ordinary fans but from the club’s commercial partners.
Hong Kong have reached the FIFA ASEAN Challenge Cup final, and it has been far from easy
Six goals scored, none conceded, and the ability to break down well-drilled defences: after wins over Laos and Brunei, Roberto Losada’s side are building for both the present and the future.
It happened at Real Madrid, and now it is happening for France: players coached by Zinédine Zidane are always surprised by just how good he still is
Olise, Dembélé and Mbappé are coming through. But there is still only one Zizou.
Almost without us noticing, Atlético Madrid have become a team that dominates possession (and scores goals after long passing moves)
In Spain, they are already calling it ‘Atleti-taca’: an exaggeration or a revolution?
Gustavo Scarpa, an Atlético Mineiro player, recommended Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich to his YouTube followers, sending the book to the top of Amazon Brazil’s bestseller list
A good habit that, fortunately, caught on with a fair few people.
After years of producing players who were too similar to one another, the big academies are now turning to street football to develop technical ability and unpredictability
A need that clearly goes well beyond the chronic difficulties faced by young Italian players.
Italy’s 4-1 win in Turkey was the result of Roberto Mancini getting a series of decisions right, from Kayode and the Esposito brothers to Bastoni and Frattesi
The manager’s overhaul has paid dividends, and the Azzurri can now look to the future with a little more optimism.
Concerts are becoming a goldmine for football and other sports clubs with their own stadiums
Hospitality and food and beverage operations generate very high margins, while other revenue streams can also be highly lucrative.
Jabulani, one of the most controversial balls in football history, has become a cult item—and, as a result, a costly one—for footgolf players
The flaws players complained about at the time make the Official Matchball of South Africa 2010 perfectly suited to the crossover between football and golf.
Christian Eckerlin, the MMA fighter who helped Brighton improve at set pieces
The fighter, who has a background in lower-league German football, helped the Seagulls improve in one-on-one battles.
Mancini’s Italy are not yet a real team, and it showed against Belgium
The Nations League opener was revealing in this respect: the difference between the two sides was not just technical or physical, but also, and above all, conceptual.
When Manchester City need to enter the market, they draw on a database of 650,000 players from around the world
Human scouts, however, remain an important part of this highly sophisticated football operation.