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magazine ∣ Jan 01 2021 · FourFourTwo UK
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Every month, our team deliver the biggest names, the finest features and the most respected columnists in football. FourFourTwo is the only magazine that truly reflects football in all its extremes. Spectacular, dramatic, hilarious, opinionated, authoritative, intelligent, quirky - from the grass roots up, if it's in the game, it's in FourFourTwo.
WELCOME
5 THINGS YOU’LL LEARN INSIDE
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DIEGO MARADONA 1960 - 2020
NICKLAS BENDTNER • “I don’t regret wearing those pants at the Euros, but I wish I’d done more in my career – I wish I’d been more driven”
HIGHS & LOWS
MEANWHILE IN… • …Cologne, the RheinEnergieStadion has remained without supporters – but sad clowns have been allowed in
GAMES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE JAMIE CARRAGHER
JERSEY’S YEAR FROM HELL • Bulls won every game, but ended up lower than they started
THE ULTIMATE QUIZ • Remember anything about 2020 other than what your living room looks like? There’s only one way to find out
LAURA WOODS • The talkSPORT breakfast host and Sky Sports screen star on Welsh cakes, Belgian mosh pits, a topless Ray Parlour and turbo Tinder-swiping at the Emirates
THE HISTORY MAKER • In 2020, an African manager won a European league for the first time
HILTON • The Brazilian centre-back may be 43 years old, but he’s still playing against Mbappe & Co in Ligue 1 – a decade after being threatened at gunpoint
THE VIEW FROM THE STANDS
BELLES OF THE BRAWL
NO BALLON D’OR? NO PROBLEM • Football’s glitziest individual award has been scrapped this year – but it won’t stop FFT crowning our own king and queen of a mad 2020. With votes from 128 journalists in 102 countries, we discover who’s been robbed...
“LEWANDOWSKI DOESN’T CARE ABOUT SCORING BEAUTIFUL GOALS – HE JUST WANTS TO SCORE” • A runaway winner in 2020 – ranked top by 87 of our 101 voters – no one else even came close to FFT’s No.1 than Lewy after a stunning year in front of goal
HENDO: HUGE IN SOUTH KOREA • They saw, they voted: 101 journalists from 101 nations on six continents handed FFT their picks for 2020’s top players, and their winner was clear...
“I’M SURE SOME MALE PLAYERS ARE LIVING ALMOST TWO LIVES – THAT’S REALLY SAD” • FFT’s No.1 female player of 2020 isn’t just a superstar on the pitch: Chelsea’s Pernille Harder is also using her status to fight for equality in a changing world
OUR SIX POINTS GO TO… DENMARK! • Harder, though, didn’t need neighbourly love in Scandinavia to come top
“AFTER 30 YEARS OF WAITING, YOU’RE ENTITLED TO MAKE A NIGHT OF IT” • While the world collapsed in 2020, Andrew Robertson lifted Liverpool’s first top-flight title for three decades, then helped to finally end Scotland’s 22-year wait for a major tournament appearance as captain. And, boy, did he make the most of it – even if it meant (briefly) donning a Chelsea shirt, as he tells FFT
“I’M EVEN MISSING THE ABUSE I USED TO GET!” • FFT that retirement talk will have to wait
HEY JUDE • At 17, Jude Bellingham has already dazzled for a season in the Championship, made Champions League history and settled seamlessly into his new surroundings with Borussia Dortmund. Toppling Bayern Munich? No worries
BUNDESBRITS • Only 35 players from British shores have plied their trade in Germany’s top tier – but some left a lasting impression
IT’S ALL GONE LOCO IN LA CORUNA • FFT goes in search of answers
IBRA-CADABRA • Bravado follows Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but why change when you back it up? Now 39, the Swede retains his magic
GIANT JACK • In July, football mourned after losing one of its greatest ever characters; a man loved in not one but two nations thanks to his outstanding work as both a player...