Articles

A thank you after dx84tech, a note on the people carrying Legends Database forward, and a first glimpse of what arrives in four days.

How centuries of history, the Renaissance, and a unique national mentality shaped Italian football into one of the most fascinating traditions in the world.

How Spain turned regional football cultures, Dutch ideas and generations of midfielders into the most sophisticated national style of the modern era.

A retrospective Ballon d'Or for the years before it existed. Year by year, from 1900 to 1950, the 51 forgotten football legends who would have lifted it - 1st, 2nd, 3rd and honourable mentions. Part I of II.

Declared physically unfit for sport, he went on to single-handedly win a World Cup. The impossible, heartbreaking, beautiful story of the greatest right winger who ever lived.

More than just a playmaker - a forward, a midfield maestro, a pure footballing artist. A love letter to one of the most beautiful players who ever lived.

The provincial genius. An Anglo-French anomaly who played like Riquelme in the wrong country and the wrong era - and yet became one of the most beloved players of the 1990s.

A perpetual fugitive, a man out of time. The Salvadoran maestro who played not to win, but because it was beautiful to do so.

He survived Munich at 21. He made a promise to fallen friends. A decade later, he kept it at Wembley. The story of resilience, dignity and the greatest English footballer of all time.

Two of the greatest centre-forwards ever, dissected across every dimension: physical, technical, tactical, mental, club and international. A duel for the ages.

Ice and flame. The philosopher and the warrior. A duel between the two greatest defenders South America has ever produced.

Two Argentines, one left foot touched by God, one impossible comparison that divided Italy and united the world. The deepest duel in football history.