When goalkeeper Gordon Banks magically denied Pelé’s explosive header during England’s World Cup match with Brazil, he launched a 47-year debate about why this extraordinary save was the best ever.
New Jersey’s soccer-mad governor Phil Murphy opens up about the 2018 World Cup, the future of soccer in the U.S., and how the beautiful game can bridge the broad divides in American politics.
The French star could maraud the pitch like football’s haunted elite, but instead Griezmann plays the game with a delightful brand of footballing innocence. It could cast him as the surprise French star of the World Cup. Read More
The mystery of why the Soviet Union’s greatest player, Eduard Streltsov, was sent to the gulag instead of to a meeting with Pelé at the 1958 World Cup.
When the magical and mononymous men from Brazil appeared from another world in 1958, they played football in a way no one ever knew it could be played.
