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World Soccer

Summer 2025
Magazine

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The unrivalled authority on the game of soccer around the world, World Soccer calls upon journalists from the globe's great soccer capitals. The best writers, analytical features and the ability to deliver the inside-track on domestic and world football have made World Soccer an institution. With stunning images and a website delivering up-to-the-minute global results and authoritative insights into the players, politics and power-struggles, the brand constantly looks behind the score-lines. Its insightful writing reaches to the heart of the triumphs, scandals and controversies that constantly emerge in the greatest international sport of them all.

Editor’s Note

In pictures • The global game caught on camera

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Brian Glanville: iconic, influential, inspirational

The game is about glory • Tottenham’s Europa League victory is a reminder of what football is all about

Mind the gap • Explaining the widening gulf between the Premier League and the Championship

Momoh KAMARA (Sierra Leone)

OBITUARIES

Style v substance • The anniversary of a classic reminds us how thrilling football can be

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

12 MOVES you might have missed…

The month in numbers • The facts and stats that have caught our eye in the world of football this month…

ONE OF A KIND • Brian Glanville and World Soccer was a match made in footballing heaven

‘Legend of our business’ • Leading football writers’ tributes to Brian Glanville

Raising eyebrows • Inside Brazil’s historic managerial appointment of Carlo Ancelotti

‘Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe s***’ • OFI Crete’s historic run to the Greek Cup final

The derby of the century

Derby of the Century: part two • Late, late show fires Sporting to dramatic Portuguese Cup victory

DREAM HOMECOMING FOR SHAQIRI AND BASEL

THREE-WAY TITLE RACE MAKES FOR PULSATING FINAL DAY

FAMILIAR CHAMPION WINS UNFAMILIAR FORMAT

SHERIFF TIRASPOL FOILED BY FORMAT ONCE AGAIN

EVENTFUL SEASON ENDS WITH LECH POZNAN TITLE

KEANE MAKES INSTANT IMPACT AT FERENCVAROS

UNION’S LONG WAIT FOR THE TITLE FINALLY OVER

RIJEKA PUT A STOP TO DINAMO DOMINANCE

FALKIRK MAKE IT BACK-TO-BACK PROMOTIONS

UNDERDOG STORIES DOMINATE CUP CAMPAIGNS

GOING UP, GOING DOWN

BUSINESS AS USUAL

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK

RETURNING TO THE TOP

LEAVING IT LATE TO CLAIM GLORY

TITLE NUMBER TEN FOR AL ITTIHAD

NEW POWER IN IRANIAN FOOTBALL

POWER SHIFTS IN AFRICAN FOOTBALL

TOLUCA TOP OF THE TREE

101 GREATEST SOCCER RIVALRIES …RANKED!

PSG REACH THE SUMMIT • Qatari owners’14-year, billion-euro climb is finally completed in Munich

TOTTENHAM END 17-YEAR TROPHY DROUGHT • Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester United in the all-Premier League showdown in Bilbao

PALMER INSPIRES CHELSEA COMEBACK • Ice-cool playmaker leads Chelsea’s recovery against Real Betis as Blues complete full set of UEFA trophies

Slot’s Reds too good for the rest • Liverpool run away with the title after a far from vintage Premier League season

Barca crowned kings of Spain • The Catalan club were the standout side in Spanish football in 2024-25

McTominay stars in Napoli Scudetto • Scotland midfielder clinches the Serie A title for Antonio Conte’s side in dramatic conclusion to 2024-25 campaign

No Mbappe? No problem • Of all the 11 Ligue 1 titles won under their Qatari owners, this may have been Paris Saint-Germain’s most impressive

Kane fires Bayern back to the top of the pile • The Bavarians regain their Bundesliga...

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