Keir Radnedge
@keirr
Author World Football Records, now in 16th year; World Soccer long-time columnist and former editor; Kicker correspondent; World Cup and Euro guides, books, TV, radio; AIPS football delegate
Cold shoulder for FIFPRO as Infantino presses on with FIFA’s own player welfare watchdog . . . keirradnedge.com/2025/11/09/c...
Proud of this. No one-shot wonder. Here's the 16th edition in various languages. Thanks to editors at Carlton/Welbeck/Hachette plus translators down the years for creating some football publishing records. Special credit for invaluable contributory work by Aidan Radnedge.
Death of Jose Maria Marin --- from FIFAGATE president to prison / keirradnedge.com/2025/07/20/p...
My first time in Bilbao was the security-tight UEFA Cup Final return against Juventus in 1977. This was just 18 months ago Franco's death. Tension was almost palpable. Athletic won . . . but lost on away goals.
ON THIS DAY in 1938 Matthias Sindelar, the ‘Mozart of football’, died in Vienna aged 34.
Just the job: FIFA acclaims Infantino’s will for 2030 and 2034 World Cups . . . keirradnedge.com/2024/12/11/w...
FIFA’s brave new world: coming days will spell out what a ‘global game’ really means . . . keirradnedge.com/2024/12/03/f...
This is one for every Paddington fan: christianrad.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/p...
After his death at 85 --- Remembering Cesar Luis Menotti, the World Cup winning manager with the very broadest of shoulders . . . keirradnedge.com/2024/05/05/c...