In an era defined by system players and tactically-minded managers, two young footballers are challenging the status quo through brilliant individual play and creative freedom — Lamine Yamal and ...

From El Tel to John Barnes, footballers once delivered a string of memorable tunes and even the odd No.1 - FFT salutes a lost ...

"Many say that football is the most beautiful game in the world. I think so too," Pope Francis once declared - and throughout his papacy, he lived those words. From the streets of Buenos Aires to ...

His predecessor loved Mozart, but Pope Francis’s passion was football, and for him “the most beautiful game” was also a vehicle to educate and spread peace. From Argentine compatriots Lionel ...

While attendances and the appetite for football fluctuated during stressful periods of the war, the game undoubtedly took on a new following. By the last wartime season in 1944-45, attendances ...