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FIFA’s no.1 ranked team right now is France. Ours is Argentina.
FIFA re-ranks national teams ~10x a year, then freezes it for the ENTIRE World Cup. For the next month their table won’t move, while 48 nations reshape the world order every night.
So we built one that doesn’t freeze. 🧵
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Kurdish Identity in a Turkish Cauldron: The Story of Amedspor footballparadise.com/editori…
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Mahatma Gandhi’s Experiments with Football – Resistance vs Racism in South Africa footballparadise.com/editori…
Had written this in 2018. Artwork by the brilliant @pupazzaro #Gandhi
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Wrote this on where Argentina go after Messi’s retirement: Elsewhere, Argentina footballparadise.com/editori…
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The tipping point of Argentina’s historical dialectism of the late 19th century to the early 20th was when the influx of new peoples began to morph the Hegelian self-understanding necessarily.
my debut for @Football_P
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@TheOddSolace @vsrsus @goal
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In 2007, an underdog Iraqi side defied every odd imaginable to lift the coveted AFC Asian Cup. Chuffed to share my latest piece for @Football_P titled ‘Lions of Mesopotamia (Usood Al-Rafidain) – The Story of Iraq’s 2007 AFC Asian Cup Triumph’.
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In July ‘69, three FIFA WC qualifiers b/w El Salvador & Honduras catalysed a conflict that claimed thousands of lives & severed diplomatic ties. My piece for @Football_P, There Will Be Blood: El Salvador, Honduras, and the 100-Hour War, explores Central America's infamous '100-Hour-War.'
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By day, a scintillating winger for Red Star FC. By night, a resistance fighter in occupied Paris. Executed at 19, Rino Della Negra was one of the bitterest adversaries of the Nazi regime. My latest feature for @Football_P explores his life & martyrdom.
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The Price of Protecting Football’s Soul: Germany’s 50+1 Rule My article for @Football_P footballparadise.com/editori…
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Football thrives on drama, but seldom does it plunge so deeply into total absurdity. My latest piece for @Football_P, “149–0: Stade Olympique de L’Emyrne and Football’s Theatre of the Absurd,” gives a compelling narrative of protest, institutional folly and wounded pride. Please do read and drop a comment, if possible.
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My latest long-form feature for @Football_P is now live: "The Babes of Wrath: Sir Matt Busby and the Resurrection of Manchester United."
Crushed by the insurmountable grief of Munich, Sir Matt Busby refused to let Manchester United perish. Instead, he rebuilt the club and inspired it to European glory in 1968.
Please do read, and drop a comment, if possible.
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My latest long-form feature for @Football_P, "The Last Waltz of Vienna's Mozart: Matthias Sindelar, the Wunderteam and the Anschluss," is, at its heart, an elegy for a lost footballing civilisation and traces the meteoric rise of Austria's incomparable Wunderteam, the encroaching shadow of the Anschluss and the lasting legacy of arguably the greatest Austrian ever to lace a pair of boots, Matthias Sindelar.
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My latest piece for @Football_P explores how Spain gradually dismantled the traditional No. 9 & why Mikel Oyarzabal is the ultimate embodiment of that evolution.
Read here: footballparadise.com/editori…
And we don’t always agree.
We have Portugal 12th (FIFA 5th). Colombia (6th) and Japan (9th) inside our top 10, where the official table leaves them out. Italy 23rd to FIFA’s 12th; for a side that didn’t even qualify.
Explore and click on any nation and read exactly why.
It’s built on 12,635 internationals across 30 competitions: every World Cup qualifying campaign, the Euros, Copa, AFCON, Nations League; back to the 1930 World Cup.
Tap any nation for its whole history as a line.
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Why Hasn’t Korea 🇰🇷 Won an Asian Cup Since 1960?
Check out my newest article for @Football_P detailing the day I spent with Jurgen Klinsmann 🇩🇪 and his view on what led to the KNT’s downfall at the 2023 Asian Cup?
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1 month ago
Sandy Baltimore dropped one of the most legendary performances of a player at Wembley since Messi 2011
@tokenbg wrote this excellent piece via @Football_P
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Such a beautiful read
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Is a good atmosphere a necessary marginal gain for Arsenal in their quest to slay the premier league dragon? (Yes) Thoughts on this and other things here:
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Thanks @AnushreeNande @Football_P for giving me the opportunity to write this!
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Season-defining game for Chelsea today.
For @Football_P, I shared my thoughts on the direction Chelsea is heading under BlueCo and Maresca — and why fans need to exercise patience with the project.
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