It has been eight years since Benfica claimed their fourth consecutive league title. Since then, no team has managed to win back-to-back championships in Portugal’s top flight, with Benfica, Porto and Sporting vying for supremacy. However, that may be set to change very soon with Sporting on track to claim yet another championship. But if…
Friday night’s game at Turner’s Cross will see a face-off between two teams experiencing very contrasting fortunes as second from top St Pats take on second from bottom Cork City. Steven Kenny’s title-chasers travel to Leeside in decent form following four wins from their last six and a credible point last time out against champions…
Aleksa Damjanović is emerging as Serbia’s next great forward talent. Serbian football boasts a grandiose history that has deep roots in the country’s cultural heritage. Countless legendary players have emerged from the Serbian SuperLiga, Dejan Stanković and Nemanja Vidić being two exceptional examples that contributed much to the decoration of Balkan club football and the…
Robbie Keane is an Irish icon. He will go down as the country’s greatest ever goalscorer, but his post playing career has been quite controversial.
It has been a stellar few months for Casa Pia. The ‘Gansos’ have won four of their last five league matches; they’ve avoided defeat in their last six league matches, and they occupy sixth place in the Liga Portugal table. One player who has proven vital in their impressive recent run of results is Nuno…
Serie A is attracting new eyes again, but a strong international fanbase has been following from afar for years.
It was the eve of the January 2016 transfer window, and Mirko Ivanić was quickly becoming the talk of the town. The then 23-year-old had made a name for himself as one of the finest talents in the Serbian SuperLiga, prompting sports news outlets across the Balkan region to link Ivanić with a move to…
Few stories in football are as disheartening as that of Mohammed Ihattaren. Once hailed as one of Europe’s most exciting young prospects, he was tipped for a bright future with PSV Eindhoven and later Juventus. Yet, by his early twenties, he found himself without a club, bogged down by off-field issues and personal struggles. This…
In the early 1990s, Gianluigi Lentini was the name on every football fan’s lips. Lentini was a football prodigy whose electrifying pace and dazzling dribbling turned heads across Europe. Born in the modest town of Carmagnola, near Turin, Lentini’s meteoric rise from Torino’s youth academy to becoming the world’s most expensive footballer was the stuff…
The big names of Welsh football are best known for plying their trade in the English Premier League, One club trying to buck that trend is The New Saints or just TNS for short. The club have been crowned champions three years in a row and have now smashed through another glass ceiling
