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Borussia Dortmund & The Lost Henkelpotts

Folklore, legend & the mysterious elements behind the stories that make up football transcend logical reasoning and are uninfected by the notions of reason. A side down 2–0 with 10 minutes left on the clock can comeback to win 3–2. Such is the nature of the game, anything can happen within the span of a […]
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The Story Of How Ajax Amsterdam Immortalized Bob Marley With “Three Little Birds”

On a cold and wet night in Cardiff, Wales in 2008, in a pre-season game between European giants Ajax Amsterdam and Cardiff City, a moment of everlasting consequences and one that would sow unbridled hope throughout the football world would contrive to occur after the final whistle was blown. The game that night ended 0–0 […]
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Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait — A Timeless Artistic Take On A True Artist Of Football

The date was Saturday, April 23rd, 2005. As the throngs of supporters filed in languidly into the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, the air inside the stadium was pale, thick, and drenched in the heat & humidity of the Spanish summer and you could almost cut through the blanket of air floating around the stadium as […]
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From Tuchel’s Tactics To Key Battles: Why Chelsea’s Triumph Against Manchester City In The Champions League Was A Re-birth Of The Old English Way

“If you gaze long into England. England gazes also into you” wrote Jonathan Wilson, to start his piece in the Guardian after Chelsea’s triumph against Manchester City in the UEFA Champions League final held in Porto last night. There’s a stir of romanticism about England, the birth place of football, from its ‘genesis & the earliest tactical inventions of […]
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5 best players to have graduated from Valencia’s academy

Spanish club Valencia have gone on to nurture and produce some of the finest talents in their famed academy. The club boasts several players who have gone on to play for top European clubs and the Spanish national team. Although Los Che have found it cumbersome to retain the best players from their academy, some of them […]
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