Liberating football travel

Liberating football travel

AS St-Étienne

Allez les Verts as a legendary
club returns to Ligue 1

Miami’s new vice

First Beckham, now England. Four months after the former England captain and US soccer figurehead David Beckham exercised his option on an MLS franchise in Miami, his former team-mates have just flown into town to play two warm-up friendlies before the World Cup in Brazil. Long-term resident and soccer expert Simon Evans looks at how […]

Lens

Two Euros, one World Cup and one small mining town

Meet me in St Louis

This Friday, a big crowd is expected for Bosnia’s World Cup warm-up fixture with Ivory Coast. The match takes place in St Louis, not only home to Bosnia’s largest expat community, but also America’s first soccer capital. Local expert Dave Lange tells the story of the game in St Louis, provider of half the US […]

LOSC Lille

Shock title win warms the heart of every neutral

Lille

Eurostar hub a regular host of Europe’s big names