“without my goal against olympiacos, who knows if we would have won in istanbul”

Look through the Spain line-up that won the 2010 World Cup Final, or the Barcelona side that clinched the Champions League at Wembley a year later, and you’ll find only one name who’s still playing fo

Sir Alex Ferguson and yourself grew up in Glasgow’s Govan area around the same time, in the early 1940s… That’s right. Sir Alex went to Govan High School and I went to St Gerard’s, which was very loca

T here is a story that is told by Alexander Isak’s youth coach at AIK, Elias Mineirji, about the first time he saw the youngster train with the first team. Appreciating that it was a big step up for I

You left Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy to sign for Arsenal at 16. How did you find that experience? I was very inexperienced in both football and life. I feel that the UK made me an adult and a p

“The first of my great games as a professional, for Atletico Nacional, with the Colombian title at stake. Independiente had nothing to play for except attempting to stop us, their eternal rivals, from

Ronaldinho saunters into the Camp Nou lounge an hour late, all perma-smile, high fives and hugs for any of the loitering Barcelona employees. That smile isn’t suppressed by the prospect of four hours