Jorge Valdano

The end is getting nearer, Lionel Messi said the night he collected his sixth Ballon d’Or. It was hard enough for Barcelona fans to accept then; it is(...)

Sunday’s Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona may have huge ramifications on La Liga’s title race but poor showings in the Champions League mean (...)

In May this year, soon after leaving his role as coach of PSG, Unai Emery gave an interview to the journalist Marti Perarnau which touched on the them(...)

It’s eleven years since Jorge Valdano coined the phrase “shit on a stick” to sum up matches between Chelsea and Liverpool, whose meetings invariably p(...)

When Pep Guardiola agreed to take over at Manchester City, one of the things that attracted him was the idea that his arrival at the Etihad Stadium wo(...)

A lot of the talk at this World Cup has been about big teams underperforming and, believe me, I know all about that. In 2002 we went into the first (...)

“Whenever I have trouble sleeping, I find Messi’s goals on YouTube and watch them on a loop,” the acclaimed Argentinian film-maker Lucrecia Martel sai(...)

The last time the World Cup was won by a team that could realistically have been considered the best in the world at any level was in 2002, when Brazi(...)

High noon, one blistering Sunday in Mexico City, and a quarter-final shootout between two arch rivals who hadn’t met in a World Cup for 20 years and h(...)

It is a sad indication of the recent state of Liverpool that over the past couple of weeks they have seemed more significant as a test case for other(...)