Giovinette, a forgotten story
A review of a recent novel which may open a window on the early days of women’s football in Italy.
Saga of a Death Match
Today in 1942, one of the most infamous matches in football history took place, in Nazi occupied Kiev.
The Blitz and the Oval
During WWII Nazi Germany attacked the harbors of Belfast, destroying with them most of the stadium of Glentoran F.C.
My boyfriend, my husband, and my lover
Football was never a boys’ club: the story of a trailblazing woman in the stands.
Blood on the goalpost
“Action Argentina”, or when a Dutch cabaret group protested the participation of the Dutch team in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
Basque in the USSR
A story of a Spanish footballer turned Communist leader, where football and history intertwine across borders.
Fritz Löhner-Beda: Zionism, Football, Vienna
Cultural soul in pre-war Vienna, killed in the Holocaust.
Milutin Ivkovic: World Cup to World War
Captain of Yugoslavia, a qualified doctor, killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
Boško Petrović: From Football to Freedom?
Left the football pitch behind to fight for ideology in the sky.
Otto Fritz ‘Tull’ Harder: From German hero to Nazi war criminal
Player who commanded Hannover-Ahlem, a Nazi concentration camp.
