Beyond the pitch

Palermo’s Serie B clash with Spezia is two days away, and fresh suits embossed with the club’s logo are being unloaded from a van outside the Stadio Renzo Barbera. FourFourTwo are going for a typicall

Jorn Andersen had few illusions when he became head coach of North Korea in May 2016. There was no talk of politics or symbolism, just a job taken at a time when his options had narrowed and something

Have Kappa and Palard just asked ChatGPT to “design the perfect football shirt” and manufactured the result? The shirt is real, but the club, Mediterranean FC, are fiction – dreamed up by independent,

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

The league’s 30-year anniversary coincides with the 2026 World Cup on US soil