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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.

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In pictures • The global game caught on camera

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Tuchel’s new deal is a risk for the FA

World Cup set for the United States again? • Gianni Infantino’s manoeuvrings mean that the finals look like heading stateside again in 2038

BOOKS THIS MONTH

Tactics aren’t cyclical • Trends may come and go, but there is nothing predictable or inevitable about tactical evolution

Mateus MANE (Wolverhampton Wanderers)

The year of the underdog • The World Cup is due an unlikely winner – can it be Erling Haaland and Norway?

The month in numbers • The facts and stats that have caught our eye in the world of football this month…

OBITUARIES

12 MOVES you might have missed… • TRANSFERS ★ LOANS ★ SACKINGS ★ HIRINGS ★ SWITCHES ★ RETIREMENTS

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

The World Cup’s most perilous nation

Modest but proud, or rich on their knees? • How Strasbourg fans have dealt with the rise of their team under their BlueCo owners

Stankovic resumes Red Star dominance in Eternal Derby • With their former coach back in the dugout, Red Star came out on top once again in the latest Belgrade Derby against Partizan

WORLD CUP WATCH •  Jamie Evans takes a closer look at how the World Cup preparations are shaping up ahead of March’s international break

23 UPCOMING COACHES • Mark Gleeson, James Nalton, Nick Bidwell, Tim Vickery and John Duerden take a closer look at the most promising managerial talents from around the world

‘A thoroughly modern coach’

COACHES

‘A player who was destined to be a coach’

‘A future manager of the USA’

‘One of Southeast Asia’s most promising young coaches’

‘Breaking new ground for black African coaches’

DOUBLE ACT • Meet the managerial duo leading Viking back to the top of Norwegian football

SHINELIKEA DIOMANDE • Yan Diomande only graduated from school two years ago – now he’s one of the most wanted young footballers in the world

MAKING WAVES ON THE SHORES OF LAKE COMO • One of the stories of the season is unfolding on the banks of Italy’s most famous body of water

THE FINAL STRAIGHT • Why the Scottish Premiership is enjoying its most exciting title race in years

HEARTS FULL OF HOPE

RANGERS ON AROHL

CELTIC LOOK TO THE PAST

“The Premier League now is not the league I knew as a player” • The iconic former Manchester City striker talks about his playing career, the differences between English and German football, and his current role as manager of VfL Bochum

“Wecan competewith the best, regardless of our country’s size” • Cape Verde’s head coach reflects on his team’s historic World Cup qualification and looks forward to this summer’s finals

Biggest-ever NWSL season kicks off • More teams and higher salaries make this year’s NWSL the biggest ever

Round-up

World Service • Exclusive reports from our worldwide network of correspondents

5 Things… • …from Asian...