World Cup

A number ten, a playmaker, an unerring finisher, a devastating set-piece taker, a physical powerhouse, endlessly brave, a leader of men, an inspiration, an otherworldly talent. Quite simply Diego Armando Maradona was all of these things and one of the few footballers in history...

With veterans like Heinz Hermann and Alain Sutter still an integral part of the Swiss scene as the decade ticked over into the 1990s, a new generation of younger attacking talent was emerging to complement them through players like Stephane Chapuisat, Kubilay Turkilmaz, and...

Determined to go one better than the runners-up spot earned at the 1974 tournament, the Dutch qualified comfortably for the 1978 competition ahead of local rivals Belgium and traveled to Argentina in confident mood. Form was slow to build, however, and qualification from the...

Holland was producing fine players from its earliest days and under English coach Bob Glendenning the national team would first thrust itself onto a grander stage when qualifying for the World Cup in 1934. Experienced players like Puck van Heel, Wim Anderiesen and Leen...

The 1964-65 season proved to be even more spectacular for Internazionale than even its wildly successful predecessor. This time round the club won back the Serie A title with an emphatic campaign that brought just two defeats and won a first Intercontinental Cup after...

Internazionale enjoyed a successful European campaign during the 1985-86 season which saw them reach and lose to Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup semi-finals for the second successive season. But while the goals and creativity of players like Rummenigge, Altobelli and Brady shone through,...

1930 was a historic year in football with the introduction of the FIFA World Cup™, the competition which would officially decide the best footballing nation on earth. The first tournament was hosted in Uruguay with thirteen nations and has grown ever since in size...

For many, a FIFA tournament™ starts when the opening game is kicked-off. But for Panini-lovers, it all starts months earlier. Their eyes light up when seeing a shiny foil badge in a newly opened packet of stickers. For generations, football-lovers have been collecting the...

Internazionale enjoyed a successful European campaign during the 1985-86 season which saw them reach and lose to Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup semi-finals for the second successive season. But while the goals and creativity of players like Rummenigge, Altobelli and Brady shone through,...

1930 was a historic year in football with the introduction of the FIFA World Cup™, the competition which would officially decide the best footballing nation on earth. The first tournament was hosted in Uruguay with thirteen nations and has grown ever since in size...

Four World Cups. The most beautiful defensive football ever played. And forwards who could break your heart with a single touch. This Italy Legends Sweater celebrates the players who made the Azzurri one of the most storied national sides in football history, from legendary...

The Chilean coach Fernando Riera took charge this season from the hugely celebrated Béla Guttmann and enjoyed a mixed season by the towering standards that Benfica set during the early 1960s. The Portuguese title was won in some style with the goals of striker...

One World Cup. Sixty years of trying to match it. A story that has never stopped being worth telling. This England Legends Embroidered T-shirt honours the players who defined what it means to wear the Three Lions, from the glory of ’66 to generations...

A strong qualifying campaign saw Portugal edge out the Soviet Union to reach the finals of the 1984 European Championships, the nation's first international tournament participation since 1966. At the tournament proper the players quickly proved they were destined to light up the tournament....

Helenio Herrera will forever be regarded as the greatest coach in the history of FC Internazionale and the 1960s, the decade he led the club with such verve and style, will be remembered as the greatest in the club's history thanks to La Grande...

The Dutch national team came to preeminence in the 1970s, but just a few years earlier, in 1966, the squad was already taking shape. New coach Georg Keßler inherited a squad based around a strong core of Ajax players. Bennie Muller was a fixture...

1930 was a historic year in football with the introduction of the FIFA World Cup™, the competition which would officially decide the best footballing nation on earth. The first tournament was hosted in Uruguay with thirteen nations and has grown ever since in size...

Bayern München's 1986 Bundesliga title win was one of the most memorable in the club's history. A poor first-half of the season was overturned with a remarkable run in the second half that brought just a single defeat in 17 League games. Even so,...

The little-known Arrigo Sacchi shocked the world of Italian football when he was appointed as Milan coach in the summer of 1987. He arrived with new ideas and new players like Carlo Ancelotti and the two brilliant Dutchmen Marco Van Basten and Ruud Gullit....

While Vasco da Gama made little impression on the national Serie A campaign in 1970, the club did capture its first Campeonato Carioca since 1958 under coach and former Brazilian playing legend, Tim. Vasco had lost a long-serving veteran in World Cup central defender...

As the 70s ticked over into the 80s, the new decade heralded the start of a new and exciting era for AS Roma. Back in charge for a second spell, visionary Swedish coach Nils Liedholm was beginning to fashion a balanced team featuring the...

1930 was a historic year in football with the introduction of the FIFA World Cup™, the competition which would officially decide the best footballing nation on earth. The first tournament was hosted in Uruguay with thirteen nations and has grown ever since in size...

The football revolution that Danish football underwent in the 1970s paved the way for the nation's emergence onto the world scene in the following decade. Despite the many good players produced in Denmark, football there had long and resolutely stuck to its amateur principles...

The enormous impact that Algeria made on the 1982 World Cup was all the more remarkable considering the country had only officially established a national team two decades earlier upon independence from France. When the north Africans turned up in Spain, most of the...

The hosting by Los Angeles of the 1984 Summer Olympics was a great opportunity for the United States team to enjoy home advantage and capture the imagination of a curious domestic audience in the soccer event. Unfortunately, the adventure ended prematurely in the group...

1930 was a historic year in football with the introduction of the FIFA World Cup™, the competition which would officially decide the best footballing nation on earth. The first tournament was hosted in Uruguay with thirteen nations and has grown ever since in size...

For many, a FIFA tournament™ starts when the opening game is kicked-off. But for Panini-lovers, it all starts months earlier. Their eyes light up when seeing a shiny foil badge in a newly opened packet of stickers. For generations, football-lovers have been collecting the...

The 1998-99 season brought the penta for FC Porto - a fifth successive Portuguese title win and an 18th overall for the club. Fernando Santos took over at the start of the season and kept the successful run going with the club finishing a...

As South Korea continued to develop as a footballing force, appearances at World Cup tournaments were becoming more frequent, and they duly contested the 1994 edition in the USA under coach Kim Ho. Drawn in a tough group, the Tigers Of Asia drew 2-2...

Determined to go one better than the runners-up spot earned at the 1974 tournament, the Dutch qualified comfortably for the 1978 competition ahead of local rivals Belgium and traveled to Argentina in confident mood. Form was slow to build, however, and qualification from the...