MUNDIAL is back with an essential issue for true football fanatics that documents the defining younger days of the biggest past and present stars
MUNDIAL is a printed football magazine released four times a year. Full of the best writing, photography, kits, boots, and stories from across the world, for their latest issue they’ve gone massive.
For MUNDIAL Issue 24, readers can choose from five different covers featuring football superheroes at early points in their career. There’s Erling Haaland at Dortmund, Lionel Messi during his formative years at Barcelona, the Brazilian Ronaldo at Cruzeiro, the 2004 version of Wayne Rooney, and Diego Maradona at Argentinos Juniors.
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There are 116 pages of football magic inside, so we thought we’d give you an exclusive look at why you should get a copy sent to your door.
GOAL/MUNDIAL1. 100 YEARS OF FOOTBALL MANAGER
Romelu Lukaku a six-time Champions League winning manager with PSG? Eric Lamela a Balon d’Or winner? Ivory Coast winning the 2098 World Cup? If you’ve ever played Football Manager, you’ll know how addictive it is to try to take your team to glory. Writer Jonny Sharples played a century (100 YEARS!) of Football Manager as manager of Dinamo Dresden, Brighton Hove Albion, Hearts, and Celtic, and in Issue 24 reveals everything that happened along the way. Harry Kane, by the way? Oh, you’ll want to see what happens to Harry Kane.
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AdvertisementGOAL/MUNDIAL2. THEY SPOKE TO THE MAN WHO SIGNED MESSI
Lionel Messi has completed football in the last month, adding the World Cup to a trophy cabinet heaving with every piece of silverware that football can offer. But everyone starts somewhere, and in A Boy Called Lionel, MUNDIAL go to Barcelona to meet Carles Rexach, the man who found him in the first place and, after organising for him to play against a team full of the older kids at La Masia, told the club they had to sign him.
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GOAL/MUNDIAL3. THE TATTOOS OF BOCA JUNIORS
You’ve always wanted to go and watch Boca Juniors, haven’t you? Streets swarming with people yelling “DALE BOCAA!”, the smell of grills, the bumping beats of cumbia. In Issue 24, MUNDIAL take you to a Boca Juniors matchday with a focus on tattoos via the brilliant photography of Bombanera’s Pancho’s Monti.
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GOAL/MUNDIAL4. THE OLDEST CLUB (THAT USED TO BE) IN THE ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Notts County were formed in 1862 and have, until the 2018/19 season, been able to lay claim to being the oldest football team in the English football league. Now? They’re in the National League, England’s Fifth Tier, and MUNDIAL headed to the city of Nottingham to find out what was going on to try and get the club back to where they belong.
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