World Soccer

To say, I also miss the "pink pages" of each issue of "La Gazzetta Dello Sport", it is too expensive to purchase from news kiosks here , "Il Corriere dello Sport" *does not even exist* on these newsstands here in Chicago! Uffa!

"World Soccer", ~the English futebol magazine has been sent from the goddess to quench my appetite to stay current "world wide" concerning "the beautiful game"!

With correspondents world wide, I can read monthly not ONLY on the Premiership, but of my beloved serie A (Italia) , futebol brasileiro, futebol argentino, and worldwide futebol from all countries !

The biggest joy, however, is that this journal is a "throwback" to times when magazines contained articles worth reading and multitude great fotos.

Most magazines these days are slick, glossy paper advertising rags , where the articles serve only as "filler" inbetween the adverts, such is our consumer -driven world has assaulted us!

These types of magazines are not worth anything but to wrap fishbones in their worthless pages, here is where "World Soccer" is so different!

Here in each "World Soccer" issue, there of course are adverts, but they are unobtrusive , and the excellent journalism is the order of the day! The passion is evident in each page.

To make avaliable on Amazon this "pretty move" ~ to offer this magazine is worth 1000 stars!


Pep's Right, This is Very Good.   June 4, 2006
Steve Guardala (Long Island, NY.)
31 out of 32 found this review helpful

For long suffering American soccer fans this was and is the only magazine worth reading on the worlds greatest sport. I have been reading it since I first found it at my local University library back in 1990. Now most bookstores sell it. Paul Gardner, Brian Glanville, and Keir Radnedge are excellent sports journalists with a talent for actually getting to the point. The best leagues from every continent are covered and analyzed. The bio's and pictures are top notch. You will almost always find what you are searching for.


Nice presentation, strong content   December 11, 2003
Jason Joseph-Holmes (NYC)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful

The advent of the internet has taken a sledgehammer to the relevance of print media outlets. However one magazine that has avoided internet-related obsolescence is World Soccer. The major caveat for US readers, however, is how quickly the magazine can be shipped. In New York City in my pre-internet days (mid '90s), I'd wait with baited breath for the monthly arrival of each addition, overlooking the fact that many of their news stories were sometimes a month old by the time the mag hit the stands (I gave 4 stars instead of 5 because of this lag time in publication, at least here in the states).

So if you're someone who follows world soccer current events on a daily basis via the internet, World Soccer magazine will be of little use, other than the pictures and the coverage of regions often overlooked on the internet (Africa, Asia, etc.); however if you're only an occasional follower of the sport and want a print resource to keep you abreast of the major goings-on within the world game, this is the perfect choice (other good choices are FourFourTwo and GOAL magazines).

One of the first items I often find myself turning to is the "Team of the Month," which super-imposes players' names on a graphic green field (a.k.a. the "pitch") in the positions that they would take up, were it an actual team.

Good regional coverage...although there's a major emphasis on the European club game - then again, Europe is where the main action, with South America running a distant second.


Special edition   June 23, 2006
Crystal Hernandez
1 out of 11 found this review helpful

I am looking just for your may edition it is any way that you can Mail me or any phone that I can contact you?? In the state where I live is hard to find this kind of magazzines.

Thanks


Excellent but expensive   July 6, 2006
Panteon
1 out of 9 found this review helpful

It was so beautiful. My sweet girl friend likes to read the analyses and look the pictures. any way I will buy expensive sport magazine.