Rennes wonder-kid and Equipe de France’s future star Eduardo Camavinga will be embarking on the fourth season of professional football next season after completing his third and most challenging season with his boyhood club. Born in Angola but raised in France, Camavinga’s action-packed career spanning less than two years has already seen him become Rennes’s youngest…

Five years ago, an 18-year-old Renato Sanches broke onto the scene for Benfica and achieved history by winning the European Championship with Portugal, but after a disastrous move to Bayern Munich and an unproductive loan spell at Swansea City, his career looked to be headed nowhere fast. However, at 23 years of age, Sanches has…

Today, footballers who spend their swansong in Turkey and China are seen to be slowing their career down, bracing for the impact of their decorated and storied careers are coming to an end. It is rare that a player lives that story in reverse. It is even rarer that anyone has the career of Burak…

Since announcing himself to the world on the big stage with four goals that helped Nigeria to a Bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics, Sadiq Umar has struggled to meet the weight of expectations on his broad shoulders. In Rio, Sadiq painted the picture of a young, lanky striker who was just as talented as…

Born in Odumase Krobo in the southeast of Ghana, 18-year-old Thomas Partey captivated Atlético Madrid scouts with his technical skill and physical dominance whilst trialling for a second division club in Ghana. The scouts would go onto offer Thomas Partey the opportunity to showcase his talents in Spain. Partey accepted the offer with eager eyes…

2020 was a year many would prefer to forget due to the COVID-19 pandemic that swept around the world. Football, like many other things in life, suffered because competitions had to come to a halt and people were limited in the movement outside of home. When Serie A resumed in June, AC Milan was one…

At the end of the 2017/18 season, Tyronne Ebuehi was one of the brightest young talents in European football, his impressive performances helped ADO Den Haag to a 7th place finish in the Eredivisie. And in the same summer in which he was part of Nigeria’s World Cup campaign in Russia 2018, Ebuehi joined Benfica…

2019/20 was Chidera Ejuke’s breakout season in European football, Heerenveen paid €2 million to sign him from Norwegian giants Vålerenga in what turned out to be a profitable deal for all involved. The Nigerian winger quickly established himself as Heerenveen’s best player, his impressive performances backed up with his 10 goals and 6 assists in…

Pedro Neto’s debut goal for the Portuguese national team was a ruthless combination of timing and technique; hammering the ball into the roof of the net from close range. It’s moments like that which make his absence from the European Championships such a massive blow for the Seleção’s chances of repeating their historic feat in…

Every UEFA Champions League season we see an underdog team make a run deep into the tournament and then get picked apart by the bigger clubs. Monaco and Ajax are the most recent examples of clubs losing their key players right after over-performing in the Champions League and Porto looks like they’re about to be…