Some arrive early. Some need time. Some peak late. And a rare few seem to have several primes. There is a tendency to talk about sporting careers as though they follow a predictable timetable. A young player breaks through, improves through his early twenties, reaches his prime somewhere around his mid-to-late twenties, then gradually declines as age catches up […]
After lifting the World Cup trophy for Argentina and securing his crowning moment, it seemed the perfect time to end a fulfilled international career, as was the thought of many. End the story with the trophy that eluded him the most and brought heartache on numerous occasions, most notably in 2014. But Lionel Messi is back at the World […]
Beyond the scintillating and exciting dramas on the pitch, football has produced some Hollywood-worthy stories and one of such is Bernard Kamungo’s heartwarming tale of triumph over adversity. The 21-year-old’s meteoric rise from a Tanzanian refugee camp to the spotlight of FC Dallas has captured the hearts of football enthusiasts worldwide. And this morning, witnessing Lionel Messi’s greatness on […]
To cement an implausible and inconceivable career, Lionel Messi finally lifted unarguably the most coveted sporting object in the Universe – the 2022 World Cup trophy, as an estimated 8 billion eyeballs witnessed what would go down as one of the most interesting fairy-tale in the history of the round leather game. In the history of this game, there […]
The whole football world and fans were thrown into a wild emotion yesterday after arguably the most expensive and expressive picture presently on the planet earth emerged on the internet. Having dominated discussions over who is the greatest footballer of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi starred in their first joint advertisement for luxury clothing brand Louis Vuitton […]