Welcome to Kolkata. Where the emotions run high and the footballing spirit runs even higher.
Our guy
@footytraveller_
headed home to experience all the madness firsthand. And lucky for us, he brought us along for the journey.
Mesut Özil. The OG assist king. A pioneer who forever changed the assist numbers game. A player who achieved so much yet it feels like he should have achieved more. One of the most intelligent players we’ve ever seen. [THREAD]
Sitting here this morning admiring the pettiness of Royal Antwerp forward Didier Lamkel Zé showing up to training in a rival Anderlecht shirt as he tries to force a move to Panathinaikos.
Of course they didn't let him in.
Toni Kroos is right. Eden Hazard doesn't need any pity. Everything about him was special.
Chelsea’s best-ever foreign player. There were Drogba’s clutch goals, Zola’s stardust magic, but Hazard was different.
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🚨 Episode 2 of Once in A Lifetime, is live!
There are football stories... and then there's
@Trabzonspor
winning the Turkish league. We all saw the scenes from their first 'official' title in 38 years. Well,
@ElMengem
was on the ground for it all.
🇸🇪🇰🇪 John Guidetti spent 5 years in Kenya as a child, playing football in Nairobi's best academies.
20 years later, he and his former teammates recreated their iconic team photo.
This last weekend gave us a lot of emotional football stories, but nothing quite like this.
Tristan, a Hansa Rostock supporter was able to watch his team get promoted to the 2. Bundesliga thanks to a local organisation who were able to move his intensive care bed into the ground
When Liverpool bought their lad from sunny Spain it was love at first sight. As soon as he sat Tal Ben Haim down, Liverpool fans knew their no9 was the best in the world.
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Football needs different winners.
We sent
@Elmengem
on a journey to show why every fan should enjoy that feeling of pure ecstasy...at least Once In a Lifetime!
3 Clubs. 3 Stories. 3 Cultures. Once In A Lifetime. This August on COPA90 Stories📽️
04/08 | Episode 1 | Real Betis
"Same same but different"
A thread of some of the greatest and strangest tributes in the world of football...
Club badge edition...
First up, is maybe the only time you will see Walsall and North Korea mentioned in the same sentence.
🏴 🤝 🇰🇵
🎙️ Legendary Polish commentator, Dariusz Szpakowski has worked at every World Cup since 1978.
This year's tournament will be his last, but his accreditation collection is a testament to his time covering the game.
📷: kayeloo/Reddit
A decade ago *today* kicked off arguably the maddest month in Spanish football history.
4 El Clasicos in 18 days that decided La Liga, the Copa Del Rey & the UCL Semi Finals.
Red Cards, Pitch invasions, Press conference meltdowns. El Clasico hasn't been the same since.
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A Sunday league player committed the cardinal sin of pulling out just before kick off, sending this desperate voice note into the chat to prove it.
His team did the only thing they could, layering it with Dry Your Eyes. Phenomenal.
Dimitri Payet was pure magic for West Ham ⚒️
Here’s 1 minute and 31 seconds of his best bits. Forget that it didn’t end sweetly, that short spell in East London was truly special🇫🇷
🇸🇾 Syria's translator and interviewer couldn't hold back the tears after they qualified for the Asian Cup Round of 16.
Manager Héctor Cúper wasn't quite as emotional.
🇩🇪 The DFB will part ways with Adidas and will be equipped by Nike from 2027. The deal initially runs until 2034 and extends to all national teams and is intended to "promote German football in its entirety" according to an official statement by the association
It’s Henrik Larsson’s birthday today 🇸🇪
Buffon labelled him ‘a player to fear’, and Ronaldinho called him his idol. The King of Kings. Here’s a delightful chip to celebrate.
Thomas Müller; the raumdeuter, the space interpreter. Munich's very own gangly-legged, swiss-army-knife of an attacker.
The ace up Bayern's footballing sleeve.
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Aguero’s son, who’s also Maradona’s grandson and Lionel Messi’s godson, asking Sergio for a very specific shirt.
Jamie Vardy really is football heritage.
"I want to wake up tomorrow morning, and in the papers they’re not talking about the next AFL player who f**king farted or a f**king NRL player who did something stupid…
I want them talking about our f***king game, I want them talking about us!"
- Ange Postecoglou