European Football
July 17, 2020
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (June 5th 2020) Stolen Promise Grief-stricken and angry, a then 14-year-old Nathan Adams, needed football more than ever before or […]
January 21, 2021
By Satish Sekar © Satish Sekar (August 18th 2020) The Growth of FIFA The first modern Olympiads to feature football had no claim to be a […]
May 3, 2021
AS Roma could not have chosen a worse day to capitulate to Catania. Their dismal 4-1 defeat handed the Serie A title to Juventus – today of all days! Sixty-five years ago on this very day perhaps the greatest club side that ever played the beautiful game lost their lives in a plane crash at the picturesque Basilica of Superga on the outskirts of Turin. Superga hosts the mausoleums of Italy’s last monarchs the House of Savoia.
May 3, 2021
Five years ago we published the following story on one of the greatest teams ever to play the beautiful game. They were a truly incredible team that was cut down while still in their prime, having achieved greatness and quite possibly on their way to establishing themselves as the greatest ever. Even now 65 years after they were tragically killed in the Superga Disaster, some of their records still stand.