Since Franz Beckenbauer won the Ballon d’Or in 1976, a total of three defenders have won the ultimate individual award since: Lothar Matthäus in 1990, Matthias Sammer in 1996 and, most recently, Fabio Cannavaro in 2006. It always feels like goalkeepers and outfield players with a more defensive-minded approach to the game, have to achieve a lot […]
For any player there is no greater honour than representing your country at a World Cup, it’s the showpiece event of the sporting calendar and it’s the grandest stage where the best players on the planet can showcase their talents. After battling it out in months of qualifiers, the latest international break has confirmed 23 […]
You don’t have to understand football like Johan Cruyff to predict how Arjen Robben is going to play for 90 minutes; everyone knows, it’s his trademark; yet somehow, it’s unplayable. If the very best teams in the world can’t defend the ‘Robben Move’, then how can a manager prepare his left-back for 90 minutes of Robben? […]
Although Jupp Heynckes looks more like a James Bond villain than a football manager, the German’s past success at Bayern Munich has earned him a fourth spell in the hot seat at the Allianz. The 72-year-old has been confirmed that he’ll take charge of the German giants for the rest of the season, as the […]
Sitting in second place in the Bundesliga after just seven games would be deemed a promising start for most German sides. Though, Bayern Munich is not one of them. With 27 league titles and five European cups to their name, they’re used to a certain standard of success. In their first fixture since Carlo Ancelotti’s […]
Out of all the daft sports I have witnessed over the course of my lifetime, Ice Football, I must confess sits pretty high up on said list. With sporadic appearances on German screens in recent years, I look at the chances that Ice Football will ever actually become a professional sport and what is it […]
“With Neymar and (Kylian) Mbappe, Paris is looking for an identity,” Ancelotti told Le Figaro ahead of Bayern Munich’s highly anticipated Champion’s League fixture against Paris Saint-Germain earlier in the week: “In Bayern, it’s clear. For years, the line has been drawn, the identity is clear” Ancelotiti continued, and he was right. Munich’s identity is […]
Carlo Ancelotti’s sacking yesterday by Bayern Munich has taken a backseat to mass hysteria circling round an apparent crisis at the Bavarian club – commonly viewed as a bastion of stability whilst priding itself on being far from the type of outfit to terminate the contract of such a widely respected world-class coach as the […]
Prior to his Bayern Munich’s recent 2-0 away defeat at the hands of Hoffenheim, a fact about Carlo Ancelotti and his opposite number Julian Nagelsmann was shared on social media. Carlo Ancelotti just made his move to Milan from Roma when Julian Nagelsmann was born in 1987. #TSGFCB pic.twitter.com/Sc4X1ov5Ln — FC Bayern US (@FCBayernUS) September […]
As we conclude the five-part series, it’s time to rate the ratings of FIFA 18’s top 20. Have EA got it right with their selection for #1? In the previous section from 40-21, we saw that FIFA had ridiculously overrated N’golo Kante. Sure, the French midfielder is a fantastic player, but EA have placed him […]
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