It’s tough to ascertain the true level of a team midway through an international tournament, with differing levels of opponents faced. But based on Euro 2024’s...
Rodri is often the busiest man on the pitch; yet he has the calmest pair of eyes. He is always dispensing instructions, exhorting his men to...
One of the wonderful things about international football is discovering more about other nations’ identities through their style of football. If you read the seminal book...
Fashion and football feel more closely connected than they ever have, but while footballers such as France and Barcelona defender Jules Kounde continue to push the...
Welcome to the 10th edition of The Athletic’s Friday quiz question. At the end of every week, we’ll serve up a poser from our vault of...
Several hours before the game, having heard scare stories about the public transport around Gelsenkirchen, the No 7 shirts marched towards the stadium, from miles away,...
Berlin is united by football. Cologne is united by football. Dortmund is… you get the idea. “United by football” has been Germany’s tagline for Euro 2024...
It is Hamburg on the opening Sunday of the European Championship and the north German port city is cosplaying as Amsterdam. The Reeperbahn is a carpet...
Appearance one came in March 2006 in a friendly against Argentina in Switzerland. Tony Blair was the UK Prime Minister, George W. Bush the president of...
Euro 2024 has two home teams. One of them is Germany. As the detail-focused among you will have noticed, that’s because the tournament is being hosted...
It was a concerning moment for England fans when, early in their 1-1 draw with Denmark, Kyle Walker slipped, took a huge chunk out of the...
Much of the discourse from the first week of the European Championship, particularly regarding England, seems to have arisen because many people have an axe to...