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Forgiving and forgetting is easier than moving on
Roberto Mancini, aka the apologia of Italian conservatism
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Maduka Okoye, hats off
How do you go from sitting next to Adam Buksa to flirting with Cardi B?
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The Infantino Model: Football Sold Off in Pieces
In New York, after the final, someone will cut up the turf at MetLife Stadium into little souvenirs. You can love it or hate it, but that single detail says everything about how Gianni Infantino runs football.
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Is This the Worst Brazil Squad Ever?
Choose your fighter: Igor Thiago, Pedro or Fred?
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7a0, a stupidly simple game you can't stop playing
A dead-simple game that's almost impossible to put down and very easy to return to. Zero skill, barely any strategy, but plenty of dopamine when Garrincha and Ronaldinho end up on the same team.
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Understanding Neymar
At 34, Neymar was long considered the finest footballer on earth behind the transcendent figures of Messi and Ronaldo, yet his inclusion in the World Cup squad comes as a shock, a development few dared to hope for. Why?
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The Europa League Is in Love with Emery
Unai Emery has won the Europa League for the fifth time, with a third different club, twelve years after the first. An attempt to explain this peculiar phenomenon.
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How Kathleen Krüger became the first female sporting director in elite European football
Seventeen years at Bayern Munich, the public admiration of Guardiola and Thomas Müller. Now Hamburg, for a milestone no club in Europe’s five major leagues had ever recorded before.
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The José Mourinho Multiverse
How do you return to Real Madrid after thirteen years, with four consecutive sackings in between? In Mourinho’s multiverse, it somehow makes perfect sense.