“Celtic Football Club is more than a football club, for many people it is a way of life”. These words from Sir Robert Kelly, who was president of Celtic from 1947 to 1972, perfectly reflect the idiosyncrasies of the club. Celtic was founded by Brother Walfrid, an Irish Marist who immigrated from Ireland fleeing the […]
Luis Figo, the last great player who traded F. C. Barcelona for Real Madrid, the man who “helped” Florentino Pérez win the elections for the presidency of the white club in 2000, the man of 10,000 million pesetas (60 million euros)… Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro was born and raised in Lisbon, playing football from childhood […]
Hidetoshi Nakata… the samurai… the “Japanese Beckham”… fashion icon and football star in the 2000’s not only for his quality but also for being one of the few Japanese players who managed to make a name for himself in the European high level football scene. His professional career began in 1995 when he signed up […]
One of the best trips I’ve had so far is the one I made around Belgium visiting Brussels, Ghent and Bruges. Who has not heard about Bruges? A medieval city that seems to have been taken from a fairy tale, but beyond its canals, its cobbled streets and its medieval buildings, in Bruges we find […]
New entry to meet, this time, one of the strikers who has impressed me the most, Filippo Inzaghi, the elusive Italian striker who drove a thousand and one defenders crazy. For me, he embodies all the values that I like in a player: claw, courage, pundonor, picaresque… he was not particularly skilled with the ball […]
Lovers of British football are in luck because one of London’s classic teams, Fulham, has returned to the Premier League one year after being relegated in the 2018-2019 season. If something characterizes this club is its stadium, Craven Cottage, an architectural jewel from another age, specifically from 1896, when it was inaugurated in a match […]
One more time here to talk about a classic of the Spanish league, I am not short if I say that the Argentinean is one of the best midfielders that football has ever known, Fernando Carlos Redondo. Redondo began his professional career at Argentinos Juniors, where he stayed for 5 seasons before crossing the pond […]
In London you can breathe football in all its neighborhoods, but if we talk about London teams, I think the first team that comes to mind is Arsenal, the most successful team in that city, the Gunners. It was founded in 1886 by a group of workers from the Arsenal arms factory in Wooolwich and […]
Alessandro Del Piero, also known as Pinturicchio, was one of the key players of the 1990s and early 2000s and one of my favourite players. He was not a striker as such although he could play as a false 9, he was a scoring midfielder with so many resources that, in fact, today he is […]
San Siro will be demolished because it is not of cultural interest for the city, that is how crude the news sounds confirmed by the Mayor of Milan. Initially, I had planned to write about this stadium later on, but this news has made me want to share my experience at San Siro now. It […]
