Before he made his name as a livewire stri k er in the Premier League with Ever ton and Fulham, the Ca n ada international stunned the English champions with a br a ce in Brussels

Few players have won as many major trophies as Marcelo – and his shirt collection is impressive, too. The Brazilian has welcomed FFT into his office in Madrid and is showing us the jerseys he gathered

STEVENTON 6DIDCOT 0 Youth game, 1999 “I may have got some of the details of this game wrong, because I was 10 years old and it was 26 or 27 years ago, but this was the start of my love for football. I

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

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

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