World Cup 2026 draw its curtains over the first group stage at which a quarter of the worldwide nations participated. Since the competition increased from 32 to 48 teams, it was obvious that more goals will be scored, and countless unimportant records are shattered and enhanced at levels never expected even in 1998, the first…
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What’s up with football in 2026?! Aarhus, LASK Linz, Lens and, oh… Hearts
In 2026, not only we will have the first 48 teams World Cup hosted in North America, but we do have a lot of surprises in European football, at club level. I have already explained the astonishment raised by FC Thun in the Swiss league, team which, by the way, celebrated their first title in…
FC Thun, another page for football history
FC Thun didn’t win anything in their entire history. Many don’t even know from which country these guys are coming from. Luckily, I remember their runner up run in 2005, so I remembered them for more than two decades. When they played in the UEFA Champions League group stage! They are from Switzerland. When we…
PHOTO | Is Tbilisi, Georgia, a city worth visiting?
Short answer: Yes! Tbilisi is a place to experience. Normally, I wouldn’t have planned a vacation there, even a short one, but back in 2019, a good friend of mine, footballer Andrei Ciolacu, played in the Georgian championship, so I took advantage of the context and paid him a four-day visit, to the most exotic…
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…
Romanian sport: 69 federations, 378K sports men & women, but where the… results?
I must admit I was stunned to find out that in Romania there are 69 sport federations, considering I didn’t know so many sport exist world wide, let alone in my native country. I mean, I am passionate about sports for at least quarter of a century, so if I didn’t know these, I bet…
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…
UEFA Champions League – the new face or European football
UEFA Champions League 2024-2025 not only changes radically from what we knew, but it gest quite complicated to digest and understand the new shape. Does the imminent commence of European Super League in the near future be a factor? I can say this looks like to be the main key factor of the radical UEFA…
Rapid Bucharest, catastrophic season 2023-2024
Rapid extended, at subliminal level, the centenary, to 2024. In the hope the season to come – which now has ended – will be better than the 2022-2023, that ended in a 5th place. Rapid Bucharest entered the play-off in second place, fairly away from fcsb, but without signaling what was about to happen. Basically,…
SUPER LEAGUE | Yes, we can and we must have something new in football!
Almost three years ago, from Florentino Perez, the idea of a European Super League of football, a closed one, only for big and wealthy clubs, emerged. Of course, such an intention from the chairman of the Europe’s most successful club, backed up by… well, um, FC Barcelona – that is a huge rivalry, no doubt!…