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Fun football
Excellent magazine with in-depth interviews and news coverage not easily-available here in the U.S. At times it pokes fun at the games stars, management, officials, and even its fans, yet it also is not afraid to tackle important issues in the game. Also includes fun contests in every issue.

Aside from the fact that the photographers go out of their way to insure that athletic company logos appear as often as possible in the magazine's many photo spreads, Four Four Two is an excellent read. ... Read more

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O mundo gira e a bola rola
As there is this problem ,futebol is completely marginalized in USA ,and I do not enjoy reading on line, bothers my eyes! I want to hold the reading material in my hands, hehe!

To say, I also miss the "pink pages" of each issue of "La Gazzetta Dello Sport", it is too expensive to purchase from news kiosks here , "Il Corriere dello Sport" *does not even exist* on these newsstands here in Chicago! Uffa!

"World Soccer", ~the English futebol magazine has been sent from the goddess to quench my appetite to stay current "world wide" concerning "the beautiful game"!

With correspondents world wide, I can read monthly not ONLY on the Premiership, but of my beloved serie A (Italia) , futebol brasileiro, futebol argentino, and worldwide futebol from all countries !

The biggest joy, however, is that this journal is a "throwback" to times when magazines contained articles worth reading and multitude great fotos.

Most magazines these days are slick, glossy paper advertising rags , where the articles serve only as "filler" inbetween the adverts, such is our consumer -driven world has assaulted us!

These types of magazines are not worth anything but to wrap fishbones in their worthless pages, here is where "World Soccer" is so different!

Here in each "World Soccer" issue, there of course are adverts, but they are unobtrusive , and the excellent journalism is the order of the day! The passion is evident in each page.

To make avaliable on Amazon this "pretty move" ~ to offer this magazine is worth 1000 stars!

Nice presentation, strong content
The advent of the internet has taken a sledgehammer to the relevance of print media outlets. However one magazine that has avoided internet-related obsolescence is World Soccer. The major caveat for US readers, however, is how quickly the magazine can be shipped. In New York City in my pre-internet days (mid '90s), I'd wait with baited breath for the monthly arrival of each addition, overlooking the fact that many of their news stories were sometimes a month old by the time the mag hit the stands (I gave 4 stars instead of 5 because of this lag time in publication, at least here in the states).

So if you're someone who follows world soccer current events on a daily basis via the internet, World Soccer magazine will be of little use, other than the pictures and the coverage of regions often overlooked on the internet (Africa, Asia, etc.); however if you're only an occasional follower of the sport and want a print resource to keep you abreast of the major goings-on within the world game, this is the perfect choice (other good choices are FourFourTwo and GOAL magazines).

One of the first items I often find myself turning to is the "Team of the Month," which super-imposes players' names on a graphic green field (a.k.a. the "pitch") in the positions that they would take up, were it an actual team.

Good regional coverage...although there's a major emphasis on the European club game - then again, Europe is where the main action, with South America running a distant second. ... Read more