Author: James Nalton
Football and sports writer for the Morning Star newspaper and Forbes.
World XI of our Lifetime: Feola’s Firebrands
Following on from the XI of our lifetime World Football Index podcasts which were released earlier this year, there will be a series of posts on the s [...]
Rusty Juventus Await Allegri’s Fine Tuning
Part of the #WFIFriday series, written by @JDNalton
Juventus have won the Italian league title for the past four seasons, securing last year's [...]
Jordy Clasie – Southampton’s Secret Weapon
Part of the #WFIFriday series, written by @JDNalton
The Premier League has seen some impressive newcomers enter the league this season. With fo [...]
Tactical Trendsetters and Football Faux Pas
Part of the #WFIFriday series, written by @JDNalton
Association football tactics are always evolving. Once teams have learnt to emulate a recen [...]
He’s Koke Resurrección & He Is The Light
Part of the #WFIFriday series, written by @JDNalton
In a time when Premier League clubs appear to have the pick of players from across Europe, [...]
Matías Kranevitter – Argentina’s Next Number Five
Part of the #WFIFriday series, written by @JDNalton
Matías Kranevitter was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, a city located in the north of Argent [...]
Aránguiz Boards Bayer’s Bundesliga Bandwagon
On joining Bayer Leverkusen from Internacional for €13m earlier this week, Charles Aránguiz became the latest addition to an impressive, dynamic, and [...]
Alex Teixeira – Shakhtar’s Latest Brazilian Graduate
Alex Teixeira is one of a long line of Brazilian footballers who’ve plied their trade in Donetsk; a city in southeast Ukraine which is home to one of [...]
How Chile’s Triumphant Evolution Influenced World Football
Chile’s triumph at the 2015 Copa America on home soil was the result of years of hard work, player development, tactical maneuvering, and the evolutio [...]
World Cup 2014 Team of The Tournament
Below is a team of the tournament made up of players who played in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
At the bottom of this article is the "official" team [...]