With the game now established in so many diverse parts of the world, football is still looking for new barriers to break down; new markets to conquer. Football in the Middle East – The future is coming

Bill Shankly regularly tops polls of the greatest football managers and is revered more than 26 years after his death.

Jurgen Klinsmann will take over the Bayern Munich coaching reins next season, replacing Ottmar Hitzfeld

Fulham’s Carlos Bocanegra talks to THE League about his pride at being US National Team skipper, and the route from California to West London.

From rejection at an early age to leading his country, it has been some journey for Steven Gerrard.

At 34, Javier Zanetti is now one of international football’s ‘elder statesmen’. But the man known as ‘Pupi’ is in many ways an anomaly