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Two hours before I played for Nigeria at the Under-17 World Championship in Finland in 2003, our jerseys arrived. We had been waiting for our names to be printed on the back – when they came, we were

What do you remember about your early life in Burundi, where there was a civil war taking place? I wasn’t aware of it, so my surroundings felt normal to me. As a kid, I remember collecting plastic bag

The teams, coaches and players beyond Europe’s biggest leagues that we’ll be keeping an eye on during the 2025-26 campaign

From refugee limbo to European glory and almost realising his Olympic dream, Dominic Lobalu’s story is already extraordinary. Now he’s ready to write a new chapter at the World Championships in Tokyo

In recent years, ‘The New Jamie Vardy’ has been a label thrown at many players plucked from non-league obscurity and unleashed on unsuspecting EFL defenders. Given that Vardy went from Northern Premie

S ometimes it’s the paths we don’t take. This very thought was beginning to fester in the mind of a young Thomas Frank. In his early 30s and a father of two, Frank was completing a master’s degree in