There are clubs with bigger budgets, trophies, and more elegant football. When you strip away the marketing campaigns and the corporate boxes, what remains is something raw and ancient. The…
Senegal are champions of Africa again, and they did it the only way AFCON ever allows. Through disorder, noise, controversy, raw nerve, and an ending that felt more like a…
The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) returns this December, and Morocco gets to host one of football's most vibrant tournaments. Twenty-four nations will compete across six cities from December 21…
Football’s economy no longer moves in straight lines. Careers stretch across continents, contracts are shaped by ambition and leverage, and the idea of where the game’s financial centre sits changes…
Success in football gets measured in trophies and honours. You can talk all you want about the beautiful game, about playing the right way, about moral victories. When everything settles…
African football in the 21st century feels like a sunrise that never stopped climbing. For decades, there were peaks and valleys and a constant struggle for resources, development and recognition.…
AFCON has always existed in a space that English football struggles to fully accommodate. It arrives in the middle of a season that already feels stretched thin. Fixtures pile up.…
AFCON occupies a peculiar space in the minds of European football fans. For Premier League supporters, the Africa Cup of Nations often registers first as an inconvenience, a mid-season disruption…
AFCON has given us some of the most electrifying moments in football history. We've watched strikers carve their names into immortality with goals that sent entire nations into delirium. The…
The World Cup represents the pinnacle of international football, a stage where nations big and small dream of competing. Every four years, millions of fans watch as teams battle for…