🚨EXCLUSIVE: Super Agent Sky Andrew 💣 @skyandrew3
We discuss:
🔋 Why agents really control football
💣 The Bruno Guimarães transfer story
💷 Losing £400,000 on #PL deal
🔴 Taking Sol Campbell to Arsenal
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One of the best things I've worked on this year; a 3 part documentary on the journey to Ghana's first World Cup in 2006. Stories from Stephen Appiah, Laryea, Nyantakyi, Paintsil, Pappoe, Oti Adjei, Nimley and many others.
Part 1 here: https://t.co/4uupI5XQky
Feedback welcome!
Part 3
This final episode begins with the ultimate qualifier against Uganda and continues through to AFCON 2006 and finally the history appearance in Germany. Had to do away with a lot of footage because of copyright issues. I hope you’ll still enjoy it: https://t.co/kViCXzAC5e
MOURINHO, a three-part documentary, is coming to Netflix August 11.
With exclusive access to Mourinho himself plus interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, John Terry, Iker Casillas, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Didier Drogba, Marcelo, Samuel Eto'o, Javier Zanetti, Frank Lampard, Petr Čech, and more of football's greatest names.
Tus lágrimas son las nuestras, Capitán 👑🇦🇷
Nos diste las alegrías más grandes de nuestras vidas. Gracias por la entrega, por la magia y por dar la vida hasta el último segundo 🙌
¡Te amamos para siempre, Leo! 🩵🤍
La FFF salue et remercie le sélectionneur national Didier Deschamps pour le travail exceptionnel accompli à la tête de l'@equipedefrance depuis 2012.
En quittant, dans quelques jours, ses fonctions de sélectionneur de l’Équipe de France, Didier Deschamps referme un quart de siècle d’un engagement exceptionnel au service des Bleus et du football français. Il est des parcours qui marquent durablement l’histoire d’une institution et d’un pays.
Didier Deschamps a incarné l’exigence, la rigueur, le sens du collectif et l’amour du maillot bleu. Sous son autorité, pendant quatorze ans, l’Équipe de France a retrouvé crédibilité, respect et amour en demeurant au plus haut niveau mondial, remportant la Coupe du monde 2018, la Ligue des Nations 2021 et atteignant plusieurs finales majeures, tout en conservant une régularité hors-normes.
Au-delà des cent quatre-vingt-cinq matchs disputés, des cent-vingt victoires, Didier Deschamps a su transmettre une culture de la performance et de la responsabilité qui restera une référence pour les générations futures. Il a accompagné l’éclosion de nombreux internationaux, fédéré plusieurs groupes autour de valeurs fortes et contribué à renforcer le lien unique entre les Français et leur équipe nationale.
Capitaine de l’équipe championne du monde en 1998, champion d’Europe en 2000, puis sélectionneur champion du monde vingt ans plus tard, Didier Deschamps occupe une place à part dans l’histoire du football français. Peu auront autant donné au maillot bleu, comme joueur puis comme sélectionneur.
La Fédération et ses salariés saluent sa disponibilité et son engagement. Son empreinte restera indélébile, à Clairefontaine comme dans le cœur des millions de supporters où des bénévoles qu’il n’oubliait jamais.
La FFF tient à lui exprimer son infinie reconnaissance.
Merci, Didier !
Sarah Ochwada is a top Kenyan sports lawyer who serves in the PSC, a specialized sports court and an internal legal body of Fifa. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, she spoke about some of the controversial decisions of referees in the 2026 World Cup.
Martin Ødegaard is only the third player on record to assist in each of his first three World Cup appearances:
◉ Igor Belanov (1986)
◉ Michael Ballack (2002)
◉ Martin Ødegaard (2026) 🆕
He's also the first to assist in three consecutive World Cup games since Dirk Kuyt in 2010.
Maestro. 🇳🇴
June 29, 2000: Patrick Kluivert misses a PK against Italy, hitting the left upright.
June 29, 2026: Justin Kluivert misses a PK against Morocco, hitting the left upright.
Home visits, WhatsApp messages, scouting databases and family meetings.
I spent the past few weeks speaking to those behind African football's recruitment of diaspora talent to find out how the process really works.
🇨🇩 Why it took a year to convince Aaron Wan-Bissaka
🇲🇦 How Morocco built the continent's most sophisticated recruitment network
🇬🇭 Why Ghana are now targeting parents in London before players choose a nation
For @TimesSport
https://t.co/7F4sAHK2bc
A lifetime spent telling World Cup stories. ✍️🌍
At 88, German journalist Hartmut Scherzer has just covered his 17th consecutive FIFA World Cup, an incredible run that began in Chile back in 1962, when he was only 24. 🇩🇪
FIFA marked his dedication by presenting him with a special miniature World Cup trophy, adding to the AIPS honour he received in 2022.
Massive respect. 🙏❤️
Growing up, Martin Ødegaard took football very seriously. It all paid off: “People always want to know what it was like for me growing up as a teenager in Norway with all that crazy hype. And, to be honest, I don’t know how to answer that. It’s strange to say but, at the time, it felt … normal.
I think I was too young — maybe a little too naive? — to fully understand, you know?
I think people imagine that I had to avoid everything they were saying about me in the press and live in a bubble, but I didn’t. I actually used to read everything they wrote about me. I would literally sit down and read the newspapers. But I read them like, O.K., cool. That’s nice. And that was it. I moved on.
I had a good family around me, good friends, a good life. I was just a kid who loved football. Proper, proper loved it. I was obsessed. There was an artificial pitch right next to my house in Drammen — literally 100 metres away — and I lived there for my entire childhood. Sometimes when I go back home now, I see kids on that same pitch just chatting, taking shots casually and I’m like, what are you doing?! That’s not how my friends and I played. We were out there playing tournaments, one-on-ones until it got dark. This was serious.
I was also lucky that I had my dad, Hans Erik. He was my club coach at my childhood club Drammen Strong and then at Strømsgodset until I was 13 and my personal coach from when I was a baby. He’d played in the top division in Norway as a midfielder, so if I wasn’t playing with my friends, I was training with him. Really training.
Maybe you think you know the story? Pushy dad making his son practice every day. But actually it was the opposite. I was the one pushing him. He knew things the other parents didn't. So I wanted him to teach me, to give me an edge.
He was particularly obsessed with me developing my awareness and quick feet. He was always getting me to look over my shoulder before receiving the ball. In winter, when we couldn’t play outside, he took me to the indoor sports hall and we would do drills where he’d play the ball off a bench and it would bounce back to me. He would come up behind, pressing me from one side and I had to look and adjust before receiving it.
These days, when you see me turn away from a defender, using that touch and quick reading of the game, that’s the sports hall. That’s my dad.
I was so focused on being the best at that time. I knew I was talented but I wasn’t getting ahead of myself. I was just enjoying playing with my friends for my hometown club.
Then things started progressing really fast.
When I was 13, I made my debut for Strømsgodset.
When I was 15, I became the youngest player to play for the Norway national team.
That’s when things really went crazy.” https://t.co/w0BE1ffMK0