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Christian Bassogog says of playing in China: ‘Ezequiel Lavezzi is a player I’ve always liked so I was quite honoured to be on the same pitch as him.’ Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
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Mbaye Niang in action for Watford at Crystal Palace. ‘I’ve joined a good club, and a good team in the Premier League,’ he says. Photograph: Jason Brown/JMP/Rex/Shutterstock
Watford’s M’Baye Niang: ‘I’m All about Strength, Skill, Pace, Taking People on’
Recruited to the academy at 13, he had become Caen’s youngest senior player at 16 years and 114 days. In the summer of 2012 the teenager from Les Mureaux, an unforgiving industrial suburb of the Yvelines département to the west of Paris, would spend time on trial at...Caption:
Neymar is presented as a Barcelona player in June 2013 – the legal fallout from the deal continues to this day. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
Race for Neymar: the Inside Story of How Barcelona Sealed the Controversial Deal
On a July evening in 2011 the football world’s focus was on the Vila Belmiro Stadium in Santos, which appears little changed from the days when a teenage Pelé lived in a dormitory under one of the stands. National-team coaches had arrived in Brazil before the World...Caption:
Gareth Bale has scored in Champions League and Copa del Rey finals but his language skills are still critiqued. Photograph: Alex Caparros/Getty Images
La Liga’s Foreign Players are Easy Targets until They Master the Spanish Language
n Spain, football is played in Spanish. There is a necessity to find both your feet and tongue in La Liga. In December, sports newspaper AS posted a video of Gareth Bale speaking about his recovery from injury under the tag: “Progress with Spanish, watch how he...Caption:
David Moyes will be handed the opportunity to rebuild Sunderland next season, even if they are relegated to the Championship. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images