Whether you have been out of work, lost a family member, or have been forced to put your life on hold due to an unprecedented pandemic, 2020 has been a year to forget for everyone. Amongst all the loneliness, and heartache that has been endured across the past 365 days, the only reassurance for many…

Waqaa! Cangacit? / Aloha! Pehea ‘oe? The first greeting is in Yup’ik, the language most widely spoken in Alaska, while you have just guessed the second one – Hawaiian, the language para excellence from the archipelago of the American Union. I hope you are ready to the next step in our trip around the world.…

Kia ora! Me pēhea koe? / Sew ngapa! Ngi migh? The first half corresponds to a language so hitched on the New Zealand culture – Māori; the latter is la language called Kala Lagaw Ya, spoken by fewer than one thousand people on the Torres Strait islands, between Queensland and Papua-New Guinea. I am so…

Growing up as a football fan in Yorkshire, few things caught my eye outside of the spectacular stratosphere of English football. When I wasn’t watching or dreaming of Hull City’s extraordinary ascent through the Football League, the handful of the week’s hours that remained were set aside for swapping Shoot Out cards at school or…

On February 26, 2017, thousands of passionate football fans in the Lebanese capital of Beirut strode towards the Tyre Stadium. In a country marred by political and religious tensions, football is a huge reprieve to the stressful lives of these football fanatics. However, this game they’re attending is no less of a clash of differing…

The best forwards have it all in their locker. They know where to be, what to do, and how to convert chances into goals. In the box, they are predators, lurking and finishing opportunities with all their prowess, whether it’s their best or weak foot, a chance in the air or having to beat a…

In 2018, a chilling video circulated around the internet showing a group of men casually watching an amateur game of football whilst rockets lit up the sky above them.   That short clip was from Yemen, a country ravaged by war and while a situation like that would terrify many, for these men, it seemed…

Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympic Games, saw peace as one of the key notions behind the world-famous sporting event. The French historian believed that wars which had hampered mankind through the 19th century could be aided by the power of education and sport and enhancing that would be one of the…

“Sol Beni”, reads a bright yellow signboard on the entrance to the biggest football influencer in Ivory Coast. Loosely translated to ‘blessed soil’, the MimoSifcom academy in the country’s capital city, Abidjan, has provided the national football team some of its finest talent that has been dubbed as the “golden generation” – a generation that…

Arsène Wenger is one of the most revered men in football. Not only is he a brilliant manager, he’s also a motivator, a teacher, a confidant and an eternal student of the beautiful game. Nevertheless, his final years at Arsenal were marred by everyone in the footballing world having an opinion on whether he should…