World Cups and World championships

I HAD A HUNCH WE’D BE CHAMPIONS!

The most unlikely story in the history of sport, told by our greatest football writer

I had a hunch we’d be champions!

The most unlikely story in the history of sport, told by our greatest football writer

The first history of Italian football to be written in English, ‘Calcio’ is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world.

Football is, in Pele’s words, ‘the beautiful game’ . Eduardo Galeano has written a series of football epiphanies from the global history of football when the rays of light have glittered from the passion of the game.