Stories

Fans of Sporting Lokeren had more than their share of brilliant foreigners at the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties: the two brilliant Poles Lubanski and Lato, the Danish striker Preben Elkjaer Larsen, a young Arnor Gudjohnson, … Continued

British Columbia was eagerly looking forward to the year 2011 and joining the MLS. The former NASL Vancouver Whitecaps are the only team in the city’s history that ever took a championship at the highest level and after the disappearance … Continued

The birth of a new club When, in the early 1970s, the Dutch Football Association KNVB considered it time for a thorough rearrangement of the existing football landscape, this had a heavy impact on the continued existence of a whole … Continued

It could be a question in a sports quiz: The video shows Portsmouth winger Vince Hilaire, one of the first successful black players in England’s top divisions, dribbling with ease past a burly Everton defender. The video is stopped and … Continued

1. Brazil – Zaire World Cup 1974 Zaire was the only African delegate at the 1974 World Cup and it quickly became clear that while the Africans were overflowing with enthusiasm they did not exactly know all the rules. They … Continued

Third Lanark Athletic Club was founded in 1872 as the football club attached to the 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, a military unit of volunteers like several that were established during the Napoleonic Wars. They were based in Strathbungo, in southern … Continued

A unique person, that is how Anderlecht-icon Gilles Van Binst described Wilfried Puis in his eulogy. Someone who had died too soon and who did not have an easy childhood. He was raised for a long time by his grandparents; … Continued

The Gods of Football seemed to favor Sporting Fingal when the club was officially introduced to the world on the 11th of February 2008 at the Corduff Sports Centre in Dublin. The loss of Kilkenny City a few weeks earlier … Continued

When Berchem Sport played three consecutive seasons in Belgium’s highest football division at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, it did this with a core of players that consisted for almost half of footballers who had … Continued

He was already playing for the FC Utrecht reserves before it dawned on Robby de Wit that his future might lie in football. The Utrech-born winger (08/09/1963) hated school but was more than capable of playing with a ball. After … Continued