• Gilson Lázaro

Angola’s golden jubilee culminated in a multimillion-dollar match against Argentina. The price tag — and the secrecy around it — divided a nation already grappling with inequality.

• Jesica Paola Kessler

Argentina crashed out of the 2018 World Cup. It's not Messi's fault.

• Elliot Ross

The Juventus team of Ghana's Kwadwo Asamoah, Italy's Angelo Ogbonna and the French pair Patrice Evra and Paul Pogba.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Football is a Country's Elliot Ross has describes the World Cup Final, every four years, as Christmas Day for football fans, just better. The champion this time is Germany.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Art, Politics, T-Shirts, Fútbol, Play: Africa is a Country joins forces with Los Angeles artists for a t-shirt project.

• Percy Zvomuya

The pope supports Argentina's San Lorenzo Club (nickname: Los Santos). What better way to dissect his ascension to the papacy than by way of football?

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Eduardo Galeano once described Diego Maradona: " . . .  a short-legged bull, [who] carries the ball sewn to his foot and he’s got eyes all over his body."

• Sean Henry Jacobs

There is something tail-swishingly devilish about the way Lionel Messi runs with a football.