Category: Features
Rolando Mandragora: The Young Stars of Italian Football
Age: 20
Place of birth: Scampia, Italy
Position: Midfielder
Current club: Crotone (on loan from Juventus)
Serie A exp: 34 games
Rolando Mandrag [...]
Analysing Zinedine Zidane’s Real Madrid Tactics & Philosophy
By James Nalton.
For a manager who became the first to win consecutive European Cups in the Champions League era, relatively little is written or s [...]
Uth at the Double and Werner Double Quick: Bundesliga Zeitung
The international break meant attention in Germany switched to 'Die Mannschaft' and the reigning world champions maintaining their 100% record in 2018 [...]
Previewing Italian Sides in Europe 2017/2018 – The Calcio Consultant
With the international break behind us, the European competitions will be front and centre over several midweeks (writes Frank Crivello).
We’ve see [...]
Sexism in Football & Respecting the Women’s Game
By now we've all become familiar with the many crimes that FIFA have been accused of: bribery, corruption, exploitation. Yet the one that can be argue [...]
Rating Every Serie A Team’s Mercato – The Calcio Consultant
The silliness is over, and we can finally just focus on the football. No more who’s going where, just who’s in what team (writes Frank Crivello).
But [...]
Two-Week Takes from Serie A: The Calcio Consultant
Hopefully people will be as hesitant to be as critical of this instalment, just as Serie A officials were hesitant to use VAR (see Roma-Inter, Milan-C [...]
Liverpool Lead Transfer Window Frenzy – Lemar, Van Dijk & Oxlade-Chamberlain
Liverpool's thorough thrashings of both Hoffenheim and Arsenal within a week are significant moments for the English Premier League club this summer ( [...]
Transfers, Europe, & Hamburg Going Top – The Bundesliga Zeitung
As we head into the first international break of the season, it's been another interesting week for the Bundesliga (writes Andy Wales).
It began mi [...]
Oxlade-Chamberlain Exit Adds to Arsenal Woes
In December 2012, Arsène Wenger launched his latest project (writes Chris Weir).
Arsenal had lost Samir Nasri and Robin van Persie , a bitter doubl [...]