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

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

Probably the greatest Six Nations player to have never won a title, the Italian talisman was revered by all

You were already at Atletico Madrid when Diego Simeone became manager in 2011. How important was he to your career and the club generally? Diego Simeone was the first person who believed in me. He’s a

Twenty-four years ago, Craig Bellamy’s defining moment as a Wales player came against Italy in Cardiff. This month, the same fixture could define his tenure as Wales manager. Bellamy won 78 caps for h

They don’t make football teams like the Entertainers any more. The shampoo shimmy of David Ginola, the caffeinated caprice of fur coat-clad Tino Asprilla. There may never have been a group of playgrou