Category: Features

Pietro Pellegri: The Young Stars of Italian Football
Age: 16
Place of birth: Genoa, Italy
Position: Striker
Current club: Genoa
Serie A experience: 7 games
In March 2015, Genoa president Enrico Pr [...]

Madrid Fall in Catalonia – La Liga Spotlight
Judging by the headline, one would be led to believe that Real Madrid lost to FC Barcelona in the Clasico. However, on Sunday afternoon the mighty Rea [...]

Normal Service Resumed Ahead of Dortmund vs Bayern – Bundesliga Zeitung
It was over four years ago that Jupp Heynckes retired, but since his recent return to Bayern, it seems like he's never been away, writes Andy Wales.
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Things That Scare Me About Italian Football – The Calcio Consultant
Aside from the paper ghosts hung up in my house, pumpkins, costumes for my kids, decorative spider webs, and of course the excess of candy, you wouldn [...]

Can University Alliance Bring Enlightenment to Ternana?
Football and scientific research may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but the two have become inextricably linked since the Niccolò Cusano University in [...]

Der Dino Is Down, But Not Extinct – Bundesliga Zeitung
This Bundesliga Season continues to have more twists and turns than your favourite espionage novel. Dortmund’s strong start to the domestic campaign a [...]

Valencia Are For Real – La Liga Spotlight
The Top 4 are starting to separate themselves from the rest of La Liga, and Valencia are right in there amongst the likes of Barcelona, Real Madrid an [...]

What If Jesus Gil Had Never Bought Atletico Madrid?
Marbella is a strange place, one that most people in the United Kingdom will have probably heard of through the “no carbs before Marbs” quote made fam [...]

Tanguy Ndombele – The Tesseract Midfielder
There is a saying that goes like: “He hit the ground running.” If you would like to use that saying about Tanguy Ndombele, you would need to add the f [...]

Italy’s Next Wave of Great Managers – The Calcio Consultant
Wine, food and fashion -- just some of the things Italy does well.
Within calcio, Italy have a mass production line of goalkeepers, defenders and [...]