From Paolo Maldini to Javier Zanetti, the 20 best defenders - past and present - in world football have been ranked in order.

Italian football has long viewed defending as an art form. Whilst cultures elsewhere view pragmatism as a negative, Italy has ...

Paris - Moroccan international and Paris SG's fullback, Achraf Hakimi, who is having an “exceptional” season, “deserves the Ballon d’Or award,” emphasized the commentators of the show After-Foot on ...

As the table above shows, 29 players have won the U21 Euros and then a major senior tournament - including Laurent Blanc, Fabio Cannavaro, Gianluigi Buffon, Francesco Totti and Manuel Neuer. Not just ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi didn't even make Roy Hodgson's top three in his bizarre 2014 Ballon d'Or picks.

Then again, someone like Kelley O’Hara might completely disagree, insisting that attackers don’t need time to be a ‘hero‘ — a ...

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have spent the last 20 years tearing through defences and rewriting football history.

World Cup-winning captain and Ballon d'Or winner joined in on the Mugello fun, waving the chequered flag for the Tissot ...

With Liverpool linked with Victor Osimhen in the kind of swap deal we don't see enough of these days, we got to thinking of ...

Italy have appointed former AC Milan manager Gennaro Gattuso as their new head coach, as confirmed by the Italian Football ...