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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.

Editor’s Note

In pictures • The global game caught on camera

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WORLD CUP 2026 DRAW • SAMINDRA KUNTI REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON D.C.

Henry WINTER • THE VOICE OF FOOTBALL

Keir RADNEDGE • THE INSIDER

Jonathan WILSON • TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

On the RADAR • Under-17 World Cupstars

OBITUARIES

12 Moves you might have missed

ESM XI • EUROPEAN SPORTS MEDIA

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

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eye witness Tim Vickery reports

101 GREATEST SOCCER RIVALRIES …RANKED!

Awards 2025 • THE RESULTS OF OUR 44TH ANNUAL AWARDS – AND THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED SHAPE THE GAME OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS

DEMBELE PIPS YAMAL • France forward clinches the World Soccer Men’s Player of the Year award in a clean sweep for Paris Saint-Germain

OUSMANE DEMBELE • Men’s World Player of the Year

LUIS ENRIQUE & PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN • Men’s World Manager of the Year, Men’s World Team of the Year

MARIONA CALDENTEY • Women’s World Player of the Year

SARINA WIEGMAN & ENGLAND • Women’s World Manager of the Year, Women’s World Team of the Year

JESS FISHLOCK • Wales Women’s greatest-ever player hangs up her boots

BUBISTA • Head coach behind Cape Verde’s remarkable World Cup qualification

SCOTT McTOMINAY • Scotland and Napoli’s acrobatic volley-scoring hero

ROUND-UP PEOPLE OF THE YEAR

FAREWELL TO…

GOODISON PARK • After the Premier League said goodbye to Everton’s historic stadium, World Soccer columnist Henry Winter reflected on his many years reporting there

“I want to win everything” • After the France captain was presented with the 2024-25 ESM European Golden Shoe, he reflected on his debut season at Real Madrid

Morocco’s time? • The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations hosts are hot favourites to become champions of Africa. Can they live up to those lofty expectations?

“We might cause a surprise” • The former Ghana international has taken war-torn Sudan to the Cup of Nations finals despite no league in the country and the players all in exile

“It will be the AFCON of surprises” • The Comoros head coach on why his team can upset the odds in Morocco

2025 AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS PREVIEW

6 of the best AFCON ones to watch • Mark Gleeson picks out the stars with the potential to inspire their countries to glory in Morocco

WORLD CUP QUALIFYING • A review of the action from November, and a look ahead to March’s crucial European and inter-confederation play-offs

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1998 • Three European sides return to the World Cup for the first time since France ’98, alongside a raft of familiar giants

PLAY-OFF REDEMPTION

CURACAO MAKE HISTORY • The Caribbean island secure their World Cup debut at the expense of Jamaica

IRAQ EDGE OUT UAE • The Lions of Mesopotamia will play in the inter-confederation...