The Hollywood Pass
Johan Cruyff received the ball outside the penalty box at Westfalenstadion, West Germany, on June 19, 1974. The Netherlands captain, clad in the black shorts and orange jersey that would become iconic after the 1974 World Cup, was being marked by Jan Olsson, a 32-year-old Swedish defender. As Olsson rushed to the edge of the […]
The last miracle in Italian football occurred on a Sunday in May 1991, when U.C. Sampdoria won their first – and so far only – Serie A title, pipping defending champions AC Milan to the Scudetto. Thirty-one years later, Milan conjured a miracle of their own on a Sunday evening in May in the northern […]