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Football has changed enormously over the last decade. It has move from a simple game played by average blokes to a worldwide commercial industry. Clubs earn and spend millions without hesitation and try to commercialize any possible sphere of football (from creating video games to TV programmes). In this environment footballers themselves have started to act like Hollywood stars, sometimes even completely neglecting their main duties. In such state of affairs, you try to look back and analyze what the hell has happened that football and players changed significantly. Fortunately for readers,...

How often I have met in my life a question «What is your favorite football match? Indeed, the majority of people will remember some mainstream matches like Champion’s league final in Istanbul when Liverpool showed us a bit of magic, recent Brazilian disgrace in the World Cup Semifinals or even Zenit’s 4-0 victory over Bayern Munich. Undoubtedly, these are matches, which will stick to the memory for the whole life, but in no way I can call any of them the very best one in my life. As a meter of fact, I have a very certain position on this issue, because there was a match...

Do you know a good recipe of Italian pasta? No?! Oh, never mind then, I will give you one. Write down – spaghetti, olive oil, meatballs, tomato sauce, some salt and spices. Now listen carefully because I am going to divulge my secret ingredient – while you are cooking, add some passion, love and a bit of emotions. How it is connected with football, you may ask. It is fairly simply – football is absolutely the same. The modern football desperately lacks for emotions or even people who are ready to give them away for fans, club or sport it-self. People with big hearts and...