Nothing became Didier Deschamps’ time as France manager less well than the leaving of it. He had been France head coach for 14 years. He had imposed a vital discipline on a country whose players hadn’t always demonstrated it. He reached five...
As he tearfully surveyed the stands of the New Jersey Stadium after Argentina’s World Cup final defeat to Spain, there could well have been some conflicting emotions swirling around the head of Lionel Messi. One, of course, would have been...
All World Cups are unique, with their own narrative from ambition to bid to execution. The first triple staging with the expanded field of 48 teams and 104 matches was appropriate to a central host which boasts of being biggest and best....
Since first being staged in 1987, the Oceania Football Confederation’s Champions League has survived plenty of tests, including revised formats and Australian clubs leaving in 2006 after their national association defected to Asia. But...
