Rory Smith
Football Correspondent at The Observer
Chief Soccer Correspondent for @nytimes, author of Expected Goals, which you can order here: https://t.co/CvBTwRzAl2
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Rory Smith
Nicola Raccuglia does not need a second invitation to cycle through his memories. His voice is so soft now that it is little more than a whisper, but he tells each story with a practised air. He has repeated them so often, lived in them for so long, that he embarks on them almost instinctively; they are, he assumes, what everyone wants to hear. They are, make no mistake, good stories. Really good stories. The cast list, in particular, is dazzling.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Rory Smith
Scott McTominay leans back in his chair, his eyes wide, his voice suddenly flushed with feeling. Interviewing an active footballer is, more often than not, a bit of a challenge. That makes sense, really, given that the circumstances are not particularly conducive to good conversation. The whole thing, from the player's point of view, must be deeply weird. The setting is oddly formal, borderline unnatural.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Rory Smith
A few days before Christmas, the tight, winding streets of the Quartieri Spagnoli were packed. They always are these days. Naples is in the grip of a tourism boom, with millions of visitors drawn here by Elena Ferrante, by Gomorrah, by Mare Fuori, all of them determined to stroll the streets of the city's perfectly Instagrammable ancient heart. Their destination is always the same.
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4 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Rory Smith
Who will be David Catala’s backroom staff at Kerala Blasters? Kerala Blasters announced on Wednesday the coaching team that will be assisting David Catala at the club with the Super Cup being his first …
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1 month ago |
nytimes.com | Rory Smith
Sitting in the Allianz Arena on the opening night of last summer's European Championship, Lise Klaveness could not quite stave off her sense of regret. As the game's powerbrokers mingled in the corporate suites, fireworks crackled in the night sky above Munich, and Germany bulldozed past Scotland, the President of Norway's Football Federation felt, in her words, "depressed". The source of Klaveness' sadness was not simply that Norway had not qualified for the tournament.
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Not sure if anything’s happened this morning, but Mo Salah gets a mention (it’s brief but it’s there) on the new Libero: me, @tariqpanja, @JohnBrewin_ and @JackPittBrooke on the long tail of the Messi/Ronaldo generation, and how we made pundits gods https://t.co/xMtsT3xXzN
My last piece for @TheAthletic is on Nicola Raccuglia, the man who designed basically every iconic Italian kit in the 1980s. Adidas, Puma etc eventually undercut him, but he’s still making those beautiful shirts, using the same machines and same people https://t.co/P8nkTzWxxb
RT @podcast_libero: Libero 006 out now https://t.co/Nip1xKFCka https://t.co/Q93ZhM7npd