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World Soccer

May 01 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.

WorldSoccer • Global football intelligence

Editors’s Note

In Pictures • The global game caught on camera

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Tuchel’s winging wonders

Tensions in CONCACAF • Planning for next year’s World Cup has become complicated by North America’s political picture

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Fighting on fewer fronts • Injuries have prevented English clubs from sustaining multiple trophy challenges in 2024-25

Alex BADOLATO • (Australia & Melbourne Victory)

OBITUARIES

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…

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

2024-25 SEASON UPDATE • As Europe’s top five leagues approach the business end of the campaign, we pose the main questions and attempt to tackle the big talking points of the season so far

Premier League update

La Liga update

Serie A update

Bundesliga update

Ligue 1 update

MADE IN DEVON • The southwest of England is far from a footballing hotbed – but one man has emerged to rise to the top

In the next issue • World Soccer’s June edition takes a closer look at some of this summer’s huge football action, with previews of the expanded FIFA Club World Cup, CONCACAF Gold Cup and Under-21 Euros.

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COUNTDOWN TO EURO 2025 • How Switzerland are preparing to host this summer’s Women’s European Championship

Juve Stabia • The second-tier Italian club are the poster boys for an ambitious project, Brera Holdings, which is the first MCO group to be floated on a stock market

“We decided to just do it”

INTERNATIONAL ROUND-UP • All the action from March’s window, including 2026 World Cup qualifiers and regional competitions in Europe and CONCACAF

MEXICO CROWNED UNDISPUTED KINGS OF CONCACAF

GOLD CUP LINE-UP COMPLETED

COMEBACKS, GOAL-FESTS AND LATE DRAMA MAKE FOR THRILLING QUARTER-FINALS

EUROPE SETS OUT ON ROAD TO NORTH AMERICA

TOP SIX PULL CLEAR

KIWIS BOOK WORLD CUP BERTH

FOUR TEAMS ON THE VERGE OF QUALIFYING

JAPAN AND IRAN TOP OF THE CLASS IN ASIA

POLAND

Canada launches professional league • A new era for women’s football begins in Canada with the first-ever full-time league launched in the country

Round-up

“A league built predominantly by women, by former soccerplayers” • The founder of the Northern Super League outlines her vision for Canada’s new professional women’s competition

“Canadacan competeagainst thebestteams in the world” • The Canada and Marseille defender discusses his nomadic career, working with Roberto De Zerbi, and his ambitions for next year’s World Cup

World Soccer • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

Taking onthe Brazilian big guns • Can anyone stop the Copa Libertadores trophy from heading to Brazil for the seventh straight year?

Sudamericana wide open • The format of...

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