Albin Sheqiri takes a detailed look at just what makes Lionel Messi so special including his tactical intelligence, penetrative passes, role in defensive transitions and more....
The most anticipated managerial switch in recent times will take place this summer, with Pep Guardiola, arguably the best in the world at what he does,...
Tom Robinson looks at one of the less feted academies in world football, that of Colombian giants Deportivo Cali. It may sound like a truism but...
The perennial question for any coach, parent and player is which philosophy works best to create the elite footballers of tomorrow. The most recent debate centres...
Colby Phillips has a look at the growing popularity of football, or soccer in the United States. The link between region and growth in football is...
Football in India is still developing and has a potential to be something really special. However, misinterpretations and misrepresentations can derail that development potential in a...
There’s a lot more to football in the CONCACAF region than the Mexico-USA rivalry and yet it remains the main draw. Games between the two always...
(Author’s note: many special thanks to Anthony Zoric for his keen insight and knowledge of Croatian club and national team football as well as his contributions...
There are few footballers whose names live on for generations and there are plenty more whose names should be remembered. However such is the inevitable march...
To be beloved by a fan base is one thing, to be worshiped is another. Such was, and indeed still is Bastian Schweinsteiger’s stock in Bavaria. The German...
Global Soccer Network‘s main target is it to revolutionize the modern day scouting in soccer. Influenced by “Moneyball”, Michael Lewis’ international bestseller, they have considered possibilities of how...
A few seasons back, Lionel Messi and Pep Guardiola made the False 9 a household name, as they dominated the Europe and won the Champions League...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
Football analysts will tell you that there are no such things as coincidences on a football pitch. While this may be overestimating the beautiful game, there...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
Neil was a professional scout with Celtic for many years and has worked under Neil Lennon and Ronny Deila. He has now taken a role working for the...
When Celtic ran away with the Scottish Premiership title last season, they became the champions of Scotland for the fourth year running; incidentally, the Bhoys achieved...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made it’s name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made its name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made it’s name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made it’s name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made it’s name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
While this website has made it’s name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
Liam Bekker has a look back at the career of prolific hitman, Ruud van Nistelrooy tracing his career right from his formative years at Nooit Gedacht and...
While this website has made it’s name focusing on the lesser known youth of this beautiful sport, and combined it with a tinge of tactical flavour...
Through the annals of footballing history, there have been a multitude of figures whose contribution to the game can be termed as colossal. Names such as...
Wales’ European Qualification campaign has been one to remember thus far. They find themselves on top of their group after taking 4 points from 6 against...
Football in the Middle East has grown but perhaps not fast enough. It has emerged as another place for Europe’s elite to finish their careers at...
It’s quite evident that the English game lacks solid defensive minded midfielders but have some of them in the lower ranked teams been overlooked? Abhijit Bharali...
The Premier League is rolling towards its conclusion, and the fate of all clubs will be decided by the remaining fixtures yet to be contested. However,...
Football News 24/7 Football is truly a global game and the historical aspects of its growth in developing countries are quite fascinating. Phil Baki takes an...
Football News 24/7 Football is truly a global game and the historical aspects of its growth in developing countries are quite fascinating. Phil Baki takes an...
Football News 24/7 Football is truly a global game and the historical aspects of its growth in developing countries are quite fascinating. Phil Baki takes an...
Football News 24/7 Greg Lea takes an in-depth look at catenaccio, the 3-5-2 and what Italy’s obsession with tactics and strategy tell us about the country’s history...
In the glorious game of football many things are forgiven—cheating, biting, lying, spitting—but there’s one thing that’s inexcusable. One thing so wretched and sickening it deserves...
Spain’s national team dominated the world for a prolonged period of time with their style of play, controlling both offensive and defensive phases of the game...
In recent years, we have witnessed several positions adapt to suit the needs and demands of the modern game. Joseph Solomon sheds light on another such...
Even the most casual followers of Italian football are aware of the dark history of the rivalry between the Milan clubs. The peak of the violence...
Often the players playing for the biggest clubs in the world, are the ones that are ‘officially’ recognised as the best individuals in the sport. It...
With a new wave of businessmen looking to exploit football and the monetary benefit within it, we are witness to rising multi-club ownerships. Stuart Reid throws...
The current flavour making rounds in India is that of the Indian Super League, the first tournament in India to gain significant international exposure. With football’s rising...
Conor Patric Heffernan takes us back to the 1908 Olympics, the first Olympics where football gained popularity among the masses. While previous attempts in 1900 and...
While European teams focused on technique and tactics, Estudiantes had a different game plan altogether. A period in the late 1960s saw the Argentine club shed...
Infamous is the best way to describe Zdeněk Zeman, a well renowned manager across Italy who often baffles with his tactical approach. Stuart Reid has a tactical look...
The England team’s failure to deliver in recent tournaments has been broadly put down to the lack of opportunity provided to domestic talent. The theory is...
The Catenaccio was one of the most infamous yet effective football formations, one that particularly brought Italian sides years of success. Joseph Solomon documents the origins of this...
Liam Bekker chronicles the career of one of the greatest pure goal-scorers to ever grace the beautiful game, the legendary, Henrik Larsson. For fifteen years Swedish...
Some tactical approaches remain associated with certain coaches even into the modern day; Helenio Herrera’s Catenaccio is one such set-up that has had a lasting effect...
In all the glitz & glamour of the Indian Super League, there is a future of the sport that needs to be considered. Sami Faizullah has...
Evolving is the only way of truly growing up & going forward, and that holds true even in the beautiful game. David Holmes documents the extinction...
The Indian Super League has garnered a lot of attention, generated hype and created an air of excitement. In this three part series Sami Faizullah lists...
The Indian Super League has garnered a lot of attention, generated hype and created an air of excitement. In this three part series Sami Faizullah lists...
The much talked about Indian Super League (ISL) is almost upon us. The tournament has certainly garnered interest due to its high profile owners, foreign players...
From Chelsea to New York City FC. Is there a problem with the latest loophole in football, and what does this mean for the future of...
Ryan Paton has a look at the now retired ex-England captain, his career with the Three Lions and just what went wrong throughout his international stint....
After years of over-spending, Dynamo Moscow have adopted a more settled strategy and are looking to rise once more in the Russian Premier League. Andy Woods...
The most common phrase you’ll hear with Indian football is “why can’t a country with a billion people produce XI decent footballers?!”. The answer to that...
Though they held an image to be inspired from, Barcelona have drifted from their roots off-late. Ryan Paton examines of their famous motto still holds true....
Football is yet to quite command the attention other sports do in the country, but the Hyderabad City Police are an Indian Footballing Legend. Wasi Manazir...
Bnei Sakhnin seem like any other football club in the Israeli Premier League. A strong Israeli contingent, Israeli manager and an Israeli chairman. But something makes...
Sex, Money & a Bad Economy, Ilija Trojanovic examines the real reason behind Lebanon’s match-fixing scandal UPDATE: This article was recognised by A Football Report in...
There was a time where Hungarian football was a global force, it’s clubs reckoned with and it’s players among the elite of the sport. It’s...
With the World Cup drawn to a close, many are left disappointed while others celebrate their achievements. Germany won the World Cup, but many other individuals...
The USMNT impressed many with their performances in Brazil. They did well to get out of a tough group and matched Belgium stride for stride in...
In the light of Neymar’s injury, with the burden of attack now firmly on the shoulders of Fred & Jo, two players who don’t inspire much...
20 years and 2 days after that horrifying day in Colombian football, the current crop of players will go head-to-head against Brazil in probably THE most...
With a goal on the counter in each of their group games, Van Gaal’s men have put up an effective approach when it comes to counter-attacking...
Over the course of this decade, tactical evolution has been more evident than at any other point in footballing history – traditional wingers brought in, thrown...
So alongside my quadrennial bet on who will win the World Cup (I’ve opted for Argentina by the way), I also find myself eyeing up who...
Hosting a World Cup is no small feat. And when South Korea and Japan beat out Mexico for the 2002 World Cup, there was immediate outrage....
Garra Charrua is a Uruguayan term for displays of bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. That’s exactly what happened at Maracanã on 16th July 1950....
It seems reasonable to assume that the dampened attitudes from the British public towards the likelihood of England being victorious at the European Championships in Poland...
“You can’t separate Spanish football from its politics.” -Jimmy Burns, Author of ‘La Roja’ Spain had been a notable absentee from the 1938 World Cup. The...
‘Hitler’s manipulation of the sport was an art’ The Nazi government had exploited sport as part of the larger picture- to strengthen the “Aryan race”. Hitler...
“I may have let in four goals, but at least I saved their lives.” Europe went through considerable political change during the 20th century. From monarchy...
This four part series focuses on the Atletico Madrid tactics deployed this season as they’re on course to stopping the duopoly in the Spanish La Liga...
This four part series focuses on the Atletico Madrid tactics deployed this season as they’re on course to stopping the duopoly in the Spanish La Liga...
This four part series focuses on the Atletico Madrid tactics deployed this season as they’re on course to stopping the duopoly in the Spanish La Liga...
This four part series focuses on the Atletico Madrid tactics deployed this season as they’re on course to stopping the duopoly in the Spanish La Liga...
The storied footballing journey of Juninho Pernambucano began back in 1993 when the Brazilian midfielder ran onto the field for this first time in the colours...
Experienced football writers will tell you that any comparison between Sir Alex Ferguson – one of the undisputed masters of modern football management -and younger, emerging...
Jack Coles’ piece “Rise of Data Analysis in Football” was named in A Football Report’s ‘Best of Football Writing 2013‘ list. The second year in a...
He was to be a prominent leader who would usher in a new generation of football coaches; a generation which was to embrace technology and...
January 18th 2013, Southampton FC sack Nigel Adkins as their manager, just two days after the 2-2 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, after being 2-0...
At the start of the Premier League season, most felt that Tottenham Hotspur might just mount a title challenge. Despite finishing in 5th place last season,...
It was a Sunday morning like no other. For once, European football wasn’t the foremost thing on my mind. Instead, the OOTB boys were going to...
FC Porto aren’t even the best-supported team in their own country, they only play in the second biggest city in Portugal, and yet their contemporary European...
So world club football comes to a sudden halt as we enter the international break. As the weekend’s Premier League football comes to a close, people...
The Champions League is no longer the hallowed turf for the heavyweight’s of Europe, with a number of lesser known clubs making their way up to...
Over the past few years, spending on transfers and wages by football clubs has increased dramatically. 7 of the 10 most expensive transfers have taken place...
Former Internazionale manager Andrea Stramaccioni will tell you the value of having a fit squad. In the 2012-2013 season, the amount of his players contracting injuries...
Jean-Marc Bosman is one of those rare footballers whose name will continue to live on in the world of football. However, unlike most such footballers it...
“6 penalties the right way and I saved three, so basically the homework was very good“ Petr Čech, 19 May 2012. Data analytics won the Champions League final...
At the end of the 2017-18 Indian Super League season, it is time for us at Outside of the Boot...
Hrishi Anand provides a scout report which analyses India and Chennaiyin’s promising young defender, Jerry Lalrinzuala Indian football has taken...
Kwame Atteen writes a detailed scout report about Houssem Aouar, the Lyon and France midfielder. While we are all so...
A regular feature on our website is the Talent Radar Young Players Team of the Week with the best young...
As the 2017 Brasileirao season has finished, it is time for us at Outside of the Boot to recognize the...
Steven Davies sits down and takes a look at, who in his opinion, have been the best of a bright...
Harry Burford writes about the resurrection of Nicklas Bendtner. Whilst Denmark’s Nicklas Bendtner has all but disappeared from our collective footballing...
Arinjay Ghosh discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished ATK 0-2 Bengaluru Bengaluru FC scored...
Arinjay Ghosh discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished ATK 1-2 Chennaiyin Chennaiyin FC came...
A regular feature on our website is the Talent Radar Young Players Team of the Week with the best young...
Naven Venkat discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished Pune City 3-0 ATK Playing the...
Arinjay Ghosh looks at the significance of the Kolkata Derby and why in the ever-changing landscape of Indian football, Mohun...
Vatsal Dani discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished Mumbai City 0-1 Kerala Blasters Iain...
Aakriti Mehrotra discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished Delhi Dynamos 2-0 Bengaluru When Delhi...
Arnab Ray discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished Bengaluru 1-0 ATK With the Indian...
Hrishi Anand discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished Chennaiyin 2-2 Delhi Dynamos Chennaiyin FC...
Arinjay Ghosh discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished ATK 1-1 FC Goa FC Goa...
Naven Venkat discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished Pune City 5-0 NorthEast United This...
Om Arvind provides a tactical analysis of the La Liga game that finished Real Madrid 0-3 Barcelona Barcelona were 11...
Arinjay Ghosh discusses three talking points about the Indian Super League game that finished ATK 1-0 Delhi Dynamos ATK rode...
