Introducing MUNDIAL Issue 33... The Rebel Issue.  Featuring an exclusive interview with cover star Megan Rapinoe on Trump, scoring free-kicks at the Parc des Princes, and sticking it to the man. Cover one of four. Actual Pinoe.  Get yours now: bit.ly/MeganIssue33

Super Mario Balotelli. A footballer who always, always looks like he is fighting against something bigger than the game he is part of. Muted celebrations. Provocative celebrations. Never quite the right celebrations. Cover two of four. Out now: bit.ly/MarioIssue33

Immortalised by Cameroon, banned by FIFA - this is the story behind on of the most infamous kits ever. Expect Hristo Stoichkov, Rigobert Song, expat night clubs, and more. Puma’s design revolutionaries. The Rebel Issue. Cover three of four. Out now: bit.ly/CameroonIssue33

"I wanted to make my own situation better and women's football better. Whether it was equal pay or gay rights or racial justice." Welcome to Rebels Week. For the next seven days, to coincide with the release of Issue 33, we are celebrating those who reject orthodoxy, rally

Introducing... The Super-Archive. A MUNDIAL Puma King. Take a trip from our beginnings in Manchester, to the PUMA Football headquarters in Herzo. And yes, that is actual Lothar Matthaüs. The Super-Archive is out now, and it is beautiful.

Very proud to announce that MUNDIAL has made a PUMA King. The Super-Archive is the culmination of 10 years of MUNDIAL—everyone who has ever worked here, contributed, or read the mag. For the film, we’ve gone from Manchester to Herzo. As God intended.

An ode to football boots theguardian.com/football/2025/…

Cool to see this IRL, first time writing for Mundial.

If I'd moan about Wolves being shite as a kid, my dad would get the table out, point at each team, and go "Look, do you think they're happy? Them? What about them?" I wrote about why football doesn't have a disease just because your team drew 0-0... goal.com/mundial/morder…

Boring isn't it? Going around the country reviewing non-league football grounds with your life. Not for me, I like it. goal.com/mundial/mundia…

‘Have you ever witnessed a tiger hug a man who self-identifies as the Borough Monster? I have. I have, because I have lived.’ MUNDIAL Reviews is back and we’re off to Gloucester. They say it’s a rugby city—but they’re wrong. goal.com/mundial/mundia…

Had to take a step out of my sports writing comfort zone this week to say a thing that needed to be said. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Let me tell you a short story. My father and I, we’ve endured so much suffering in our lives. We’ve experienced a lot of bad things away from football. Tonight, we feel vindicated. It’s been worth it. We experienced this together. That’s what football is about. 💙💙💙

My new favourite football photo of all time. Annabel Staff's full set of images (and some words, too) from a joyous few days in Lisbon is on the MUNDIAL website nooowwwwwwwwwww. goal.com/mundial/we-cam…

This magazine is fucking class, buy it please!

One of the most important pieces I've ever written. Al Hilal Omdurman have had the best season of anyone in World Football. Playing 5,000 km from home in Sudan, they won the Mauritanian top flight and had their best season in the Champions League for a decade!

Damien Duff is gone, but what he made Shelbourne fans feel will last forever. We spoke to RedsIndependent editor Barry Crossan last year about Duffer resurrecting the football club he and so many others love. goal.com/mundial/resurr…

Absolutely devastated. I loved watching Diogo Jota play football, the way he darted around, hustled, scampered, found himself in goalscoring positions on the end of crosses, deflections, blocks. He symbolised a period of time where it felt like Wolves could do anything, beat

This is a really nice long read from Ryan that highlights so much of the hard and wonderful work Wal Goch y Menywod - @wmenywod.bsky.social Dr Penny Miles and many others have done in recent years to make Saturday come to life.

Increasingly little about England seems to work or make sense in 2025. But what does work, in a misshapen, often unpretty, playing-with-a-broken-leg kind of way is our Lionesses. They are “proper England” and I love them. goal.com/mundial/proper…