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‘El Loco’ - The story of Sebastian Abreu Uruguayan striker Sebastián Abreu nicknamed “El Loco” has a record of playing for the most amount of professional clubs in football history (29). In his 24-year career, he played in 10 different countries between 1995 and 2019. Abreu’s early career and

Strange Shirt Numbers in Football History There are some truly bizarre stories surrounding football players and their shirt numbers. These are the stories behind some of footballs most bizarre shirt numbers. We all know of CR7 and R9 and a few others have claimed the number 10 as their own,

The Top 5 oldest players in World Cup history. Who is the oldest player in World Cup History? Are they all goalkeepers? The School of Football provides a bitesize run down of the 5 oldest footballers to have played in a World Cup. Goalkeepers quite obviously dominate the list, with

The story of Pablo Escobar and his involvement in Colombian Football The School of Football is back with the extraordinary tale of the beautiful game, and its relationship with the world’s most notorious criminal. ‘The King of Cocaine’ managed to exert his influence on pretty much every facet of

Hidetoshi Nakata, the cult hero who put Asian football on the map. The man nicknamed the ‘Asian David Beckham’ is widely considered as the greatest Japanese player of all time. During his 11 year career, he played in 3 WC’s, earnt legendary status in Italian football and he became

Jean-Pierre Papin - The short story of his record-breaking career In July 1992 Papin moved from Marseille to AC Milan in what was a world-record transfer fee at the time of £10.8 million, in the process he became the first-ever player to be bought for 10+