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Exploring the weird and wonderful world of football across FIFA’s 211 member nations –and beyond

Hearts could be about to create more drama in Scottish football and overturn the Old Firm, says Simon Barnes

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In the summer of 2023, Liverpool paid RB Leipzig £60 million to sign Dominik Szoboszlai. Since then, the Hungary talisman has won a Premier League title, been used in a variety of positions by two different managers, captained his country at a European Championship, and become a father. In October, the 25-year-old sat down with World Soccer to discuss all of that and more

shop.heartsofpine.com Operating in the third tier of US soccer, Portland Hearts of Pine is Maine’s only professional club. Founded in 2023 and first competing this year, they sold out the entirety of