As of end of March, beginning of April in some parts of the world, FIFA World Cup 2026 has all its 48 participants decided. The first of its kind, about to start in June. I did make some predictions in December 2025, so now I stick with the colorful part of the story, the multicultural stuff…
Category: Football
Bodø / Glimt in Europe, a success story for many to learn from!
Bodø / Glimt is amazing Europe for more than four years. First, quarter finals of Europe Conference League, after notoriously beating AS Rome, future winner, 6-1 in the group stage. This happened in 2022. Three years later, they reached the semifinals of Europe League, and only one stage later, we are waiting to see if…
FIFA World Cup 2026: participating nations at the glamourous event
As I wrote before, the FIFA World Cup is on the process of becoming 100% a true festival, rather than a sports competition. From some regards, that is not necessary bad, but if you want still to scale the event in terms of competitiveness, that won’t be possible in a couple of editions. Actually this…
Arsene Wenger is right, because football is for the people!
Back in 2020, Arsene Wenger had a simple, but very interesting idea to change the way in which offside is judged: an attacker is only offside if their entire body, capable of scoring, is ahead of the last defender, creating “daylight” or a clear gap, rather than being level. The aim of this is to…
Rapid Bucharest, mixed 2025 feelings. What’s up for 2026?
Not admitting Rapid Bucharest has a profoundly shitty performance on the field, it would be an absolute no brainer. The good thing here still is the fact that all Romanian football is shaped from the same material, and then a poor behavior on the pitch is not something that ultimately can go as single blame…
Who will win FIFA World Cup 2026? Prediction for Christmas :)
The FIFA World Cup 2026 schedule was decided, even if six teams are yet to be decided in March 2026. Most of them are not relevant, though, so I am trying to put the favorites into spot, and see what would be, from my perspective, the path to the final and whom, normally, should be…
FIFA World Cup 2026 – groups decided. Match schedule and venues
FIFA World Cup 2026 – final draw! The first edition with 48 teams, something not necessary that good and entertaining, as I have explained here, is deciding the groups at Washington DC, the capital of the United States of America. 42 teams already qualified, and six more are pending for some play-offs, which are going…
Cristian Săpunaru – the child who lived the dream
On 19.05.2025, among thousands of tears, Cristian Săpunaru played his last game on Giulești, for Rapid Bucharest. A bitter evening, in a 1-4 loss against a lamentable CFR Cluj team. A shame that Săpunaru’s colleagues didn’t fought at least this time, for the meaning of the event. But what is really the meaning of the…
Bodø / Glimt – successful story of Norway: first European semifinalist, in 2025!
We begun 2025 stuck in Bodø, because of a snowstorm, and heavy snow. Even though our favorite place remains Tromsø, this town was pleasant from our point of view. Three months and a bit later, the same story: a snow storm arrived in Northern Norway, so Bodø was covered in white. Just before the first…
FIFA World Cup is becoming a joke: please stop that!
We are one year away from the FIFA World Cup 2026, held, for the first time in three countries: USA, Canada and Mexico. Also, the first edition with… 48 teams. Almost a quarter of the countries from all the world. A disgrace. Why am I saying that? Because while following to globalize and to offer…