‘There’s not many that have played with her that won’t tell you she’s the best player they ever played with.’ Featuring interviews with Denise Reddy and many more, this is the story of the record-breaking Formiga, told by those who know her genius best. goal.com/mundial/form...

New Balance’s old reliables, a lovely new Kappa tracksuit, and something called a lezbag. That's just some of the gear and stuff that’s been making us very happy this week. www.goal.com/mundial/heat...

Our good mate Marva Kreel is MUNDIAL's guest on this week's My Beautiful Game. She talks us through her perfect football match, which features a delicious mixed grill with Big Duncan Ferguson. Out now on Spotify, YouTube, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2hD...

The Grenfell Tower fire was a tragedy on a scale that is hard to quantify or measure. Airing on TNT Sports this evening, Beacon of Hope: The Grenfell Athletic Story tells the story of the football team that helped its community to heal. www.goal.com/mundial/beac...

Mattia Guarnera puts grinning paintings on vintage football shirts. They’re a bit like as if someone had got old covers of The Face or NME and plastered them onto a Real Madrid shirt from 2005. It was a pleasure to chat to him about his work. www.goal.com/mundial/vaul...

In 1995, Liverpool supporter and Lilleshall graduate John Marshall signed for Everton. He passed away on the day he was due to start life as a Toffee. Through Cardiac Risk in the Young, The John Marshall Fund has raised more than £100,000. This is his story. By me for @mundialmag.bsky.social

There’s (still) only one Jimmy Grimble. We're taking you behind the scenes of the making of a true cult classic. Featuring young actors looting Maine Road bars, football cinema’s best soundtrack, and a lead actor who was crap at football. www.goal.com/mundial/ther...

Our guest on My Beautiful Game this week is Joel Golby. He told us all about his perfect day at the football. Millwall are in, Ray Parlour is up in the stands, and there’s some mad alterations to the Emirates. Enjoy. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2NmH... Youtube: youtu.be/HcxdO17Hq2g

A transformative football tournament took place in Oslo last week. You’ve probably heard of the Homeless World Cup, but if you were doubtful about its impact, Daniel Tyte’s dispatches from the most recent edition in Norway will make you a believer. www.goal.com/mundial/home...

Why is women’s football so gay? Rosie Hewitson’s impeccable Issue 34 cover story that inspired a mini documentary is now on our website. www.goal.com/mundial/why-...

We would very much like to see @fitbathatba.bsky.social serenade Adriano with 99 Shot Power. Get MUNDIAL’s brand new podcast, My Beautiful Game, in your eyes and ears now. Full episodes available on YouTube, Spotify and Apple. youtu.be/INF9etFzhvE

'Gotta support the team though, haven't you?' I wrote about the world of shit TV football dialogue for @mundialmag.bsky.social, to learn why characters always talk about football in such a deeply weird way. Cheers to Adam from @footballcliches.bsky.social and Sean for chatting with me!

Fábio is “inexplicable”. 44 years of age, more professional games than anyone in the history of the game, and yet he’s still pretty fantastic. We got Tim Vickery to investigate how he’s managed it, and why a Brazil cap has eluded him. www.goal.com/mundial/inex...

Lionel Messi playing at Upton Park?! @jj_bull was there, and it was a supernatural experience. It also inspired him to create his very own Aberdonian Messi for his fantasy day out at the football. JJ's full My Beautiful Game is out now. open.spotify.com/episode/18Cz...

August is for the dreamers. And few fanbases have dreamed quite like Newcastle in 1995–96. Featuring interviews with Lee Clark and Warren Barton, this is what it was like to experience and adore Kevin Keegan’s Entertainers. www.goal.com/mundial/newc...

✍️ We wanted to shoutout out this fantastic three part series from Tom Ritchie for @mundialmag.bsky.social. This delivers some fresh perspectives and new dynamics of Berlin football. Love it. Part one is linked below! 🔗 www.goal.com/mundial/sear...

This is The Heat Map. Home for all the stuff that we like and want to tell you about. Stuff to watch, stuff to listen to, stuff to stick on the never-never card. This week, our favourite record of the year, Peru shirts, and something called a FlipBelt. www.goal.com/mundial/heat...

We’re very excited to introduce MUNDIAL’s brand new podcast: My Beautiful Game. Each episode, we ask our guest about their dream day at the football. First up, @fitbathatba.bsky.social. Aberdeen 1983~ v Real Madrid 2025. Lots of lager. Lots of good times. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/18Cz...

Meet the footballers who are trying to save our planet from climate catastrophe. They’re pissed off, but are using that energy to enact genuine change in their communities and beyond. www.goal.com/mundial/foot...

Mike Gibbons’ love letter to the team that made him a Francophile for life is an absolute treat. And you can read his ode to Platini, Tigana, and the rest on our website now. Merci. www.goal.com/mundial/trib...

Did you know Johan Cruyff watched David Beckham score from the halfway line at Selhurst Park? Just one of many discoveries Jack Clayton made rewatching the most iconic Premier League opening-weekend game ever—until something went very wrong… www.goal.com/mundial/seco...

Some slightly NSFW Jack Grealish content from @mundialmag.bsky.social www.goal.com/mundial/why-...

Ultras Ahlawy is unlike any other football group in history. Battling state oppression, steadfast in Palestinian support, the tragedy of Port Said. Told by the people who were there and written by Nihal El Aasar, this is their story. www.goal.com/mundial/trag...

A Cantona hat-trick, Gary Speed being absolutely amazing, and Howard Wilkinson wearing a rogue cap. 1992 brought us the best Charity Shield ever, and Jack Clayton had an utterly glorious time rewatching it in the early hours of Sunday morning. www.goal.com/mundial/seco...

“Without Croatia Berlin, I wouldn’t exist.” Meet Berlin’s immigrant football clubs. The final part of Tom Ritchie’s outstanding three-part investigation is about football, community and integration in one of the most interesting cities in the world. www.goal.com/mundial/sear...

This week, we’re all about Jimmy Mac, hardman umbrellas and trainers with a tent flap. This is all the gear and stuff that's been driving us wild this week. www.goal.com/mundial/heat...

Jack Clayton is back pounding the streets, asking a load of midweek Pirlos and Sunday morning Kellys about their career highlights. From John o’ Groats to Belfast, these are some of the best grassroots assists of all time. www.goal.com/mundial/best...

Toni Payne’s high beams of her smile shine through an early morning Zoom call. She is a well-travelled footballer and now an African champion. Her football journey has been one of history-making, bold choices. www.goal.com/mundial/toni...

This probably sums up our team better than anything. Top, top words.

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Not everything in England works or makes sense in 2025, but the Lionesses do. In a misshapen, sometimes unpretty, playing-with-a-broken-fucking-tibia kind of way, they represent the best of ‘proper England’. Free to read on our website now. www.goal.com/mundial/prop...

The return of the purple packet, tape cassettes, and Barry Can’t Swim. This is all the gear and stuff that's been driving us wild this week. www.goal.com/mundial/heat...

A lot has been written and said about Keegan’s Entertainers, but what about what came before? This week, the MUNDIAL Book Club is reading a tragi-comic memoir about what it was like to watch Newcastle struggle their way through to the early 1980s. www.goal.com/mundial/book...

There once was a defender. Then there was the Pelé. And behind them both, there was Kolkata. Follow Chirag Sharatkumar’s incredible journey to find Bablu-da, the man who marked the King. www.goal.com/mundial/pele...

In an inquisitive moment, @jackclayton94.bsky.social decided to find out what makes the people who make masterpieces out of turf tick and answer the key question: Do you enjoy what you do as much as we think you do? www.goal.com/mundial/grou...

Undersold and mistreated, but you can’t hide the promise of WAFCON. @adekaiyaoja explains how Africa’s biggest women’s football tournament is often overlooked by those running it. www.goal.com/mundial/wafc...

When we grow up, we want to be Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze.

There is probably no better non-native guide to the sexy city of Rio de Janeiro than @Tim_Vickery Join us for a meander through the streets, past the cafés, through the motels, along the beaches and up the steps of some of football’s most iconic venues. www.goal.com/mundial/rio-...

Really enjoying print magazines recently. @mundialmag.bsky.social @pcgamer.com

An under-16s winning machine from East London is heading to the Gothia Cup. However, for Impact FC, glory on the biggest stage is not their sole objective. @jackbbclayton spoke to some of the club's driving forces to truly understand the Impact DNA. www.goal.com/mundial/goth...

Frauenfußball is rising in Berlin. The German capital’s two biggest women’s clubs are successfully moving up the leagues, and opportunities for the city’s diverse population are opening up. www.goal.com/mundial/unio...

The Club World Cup may well be the end game of football capitalism. Yet, amid the hype and gold confetti, HoJun Yu found that the cultural melting pot of tournament football is still bubbling away in Philadelphia. www.goal.com/mundial/phil...

In 1996, Oasis played two transformational gigs at Maine Road. For Issue 31 of MUNDIAL, we tracked down a colourful cast of characters who were there, drinking it all in. Now, you can read it online for the first time ever. www.goal.com/mundial/ther...

The best app for birdwatching, new Adam Curtis, and the only book you’ll ever need to read about casuals. Here is all the gear and stuff you’re going to adore this week. www.goal.com/mundial/heat...

‘What people didn't realise at the time was what we did was nothing short of a miracle, really.’ We spoke to @therealcbuglass about how Nike’s 2002 World Cup designs conquered the heat, revolutionised kit technology, and looked absolutely amazing. www.goal.com/mundial/nike...

San Francisco City FC are the oldest community-owned club in the US. Now, their status is under threat from a new team run by ‘finance executives and soccer dads’. Daniel Díaz has been learning why this unique team means so much to the local community. www.goal.com/mundial/san-...

Sophie Hird has done and made it all. Umbro biker jackets, chainmail dresses, the lot. We spoke to her about a beautiful Western-inspired football shirt, made for @romyromyromy from @The_xx. We desperately want one for wedding season. www.goal.com/mundial/the-...

Wales Women walking out at their first ever major tournament game is a moment decades in the making. And Ryan March has spoken to the people who made it happen. Long live the Red Wall. www.goal.com/mundial/wale...

It's me, writing 3,000 words for @mundialmag.bsky.social about football and cricket (two sports I famously have no interest in and never talk about). www.goal.com/mundial/gary...

Four teams. One penalty. And every emotion football creates. John Duerden was on the streets of Amman as Jordan toasted World Cup qualification on one side of the city, while Palestine had their dreams ripped away in the cruellest way on the other. www.goal.com/mundial/one-...