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11 Players Real Madrid Signed After Standout World Cup Performances

Los Blancos have a history of using the World Cup to audition talent.

Sports Illustrated · Jun 9

Sammy Lee: ‘Going to Spain was the best thing that happened to me after joining Liverpool’

The former Liverpool and Osasuna player tells Sid Lowe about his coaching journey, redemption in Spain and working with Sven-Göran Eriksson

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2025

Players who scored World Cup opening goals

From 1930 through to 2022, a look at the players who scored the opening goals at the men's World Cup...

FourFourTwo · Dec 17, 2024

Footballers who appeared in films

From cheesy cameos to Hollywood roles, a look at the famous footballers who appeared on the big screen...

FourFourTwo · Apr 6, 2024

The best full-backs of all time

Counting down the greatest right-backs and left-backs ever to play the game

FourFourTwo · Feb 16, 2024

The best footballers of the 70s

Ranking the greatest players of the decade

FourFourTwo · Jan 16, 2024

Franz Beckenbauer, World Cup winning player and coach, dies at 78

Franz Beckenbauer, beloved German football star and World Cup winner as both player and coach, has passed away at 78.

The Hindu · Jan 8, 2024

The best midfielders of the 1980s

It was a memorable decade for football and creative players in particular, but which ones stood out the most?

FourFourTwo · Nov 9, 2023

When East Germany met West and caused one of the greatest World Cup shocks

East Germany 1-0 West Germany: At the 1974 World Cup, Hamburg played host to an extraordinary meeting of two rival sides. The result was even more unbelievable, writes Adam Bushby

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2022

The night Beckenbauer turned Rangers air blue as Colin Stein insists current crop are onto a winner against RB Leipzig

The Barcelona Bear helped take down Bayern Munich – after leaving his boot in on Der Kaiser and getting a rollicking.

Daily Record · Apr 27, 2022