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Messi, Haaland, Ronaldo and more… 10 reasons to buy MUNDIAL Issue 24

James Westwood
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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.

Editors' Picks

  1. 1. 100 YEARS OF FOOTBALL MANAGER
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    1. 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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  2. 2. THEY SPOKE TO THE MAN WHO SIGNED MESSI
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    2. 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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  4. 3. THE TATTOOS OF BOCA JUNIORS
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    3. 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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  5. 4. THE OLDEST CLUB (THAT USED TO BE) IN THE ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE
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    4. 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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  7. 5. THE STORY OF THIS CLAPTON ULTRAS STICKER
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    5. THE STORY OF THIS CLAPTON ULTRAS STICKER

    Simple. It’s a shiny sticker featuring Ian Malcolm from the original Jurassic Park brandishing a flare with the words ‘Clapton Ultras’ in the Jurassic Park font underneath. Brilliant.

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  8. 6. THE DESCRIPTION OF HAALAND’S GOAL AGAINST PSG
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    6. THE DESCRIPTION OF HAALAND’S GOAL AGAINST PSG

    Remember that goal that Haaland scored against PSG in February 2020? Remember the noise it made? That clang of metal? MUNDIAL travelled to Dortmund to speak to the people who watched Erling as he went supernova, and the way they reacted to that goal is well worth reading.

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  9. 7. THE MOST CHAOTIC FOOTBALL TEAMS OF ALL TIME
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    7. THE MOST CHAOTIC FOOTBALL TEAMS OF ALL TIME

    One big list of football teams who were carnage, who had managers, players, and fans that could turn on the chaos factor on a whim. And yes, Bielsa, the chaos man in chief, has a bunch of teams in there.

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  10. 8. THE DIEGO MARADONA SCOUTING REPORT
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    8. THE DIEGO MARADONA SCOUTING REPORT

    Ever wondered what it must have been like to watch a 15-year-old Diego Maradona? For the Maradona section of the ‘Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man’ cover story, MUNDIAL have exclusively uncovered the first ever scouting report on Diego. Extraordinary, effective and just dribbling. Excellent power. Extraordinary courage. Extraordinary efficiency. Very good shot… and that’s just the start.

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  12. 9. LET’S ALL GO TO ICELAND
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    9. LET’S ALL GO TO ICELAND

    In every issue, MUNDIAL produce a travel feature that make you want to go somewhere different to watch football. This time, it’s the turn of Iceland, Reykjavik, and everything that an island full of angry water, billowing geysers, and football has to offer. We’d jump on a flight now.

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  13. 10. THE CLUB MUNDIAL CARD YOU RECEIVE IF YOU SUBSCRIBE
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    10. THE CLUB MUNDIAL CARD YOU RECEIVE IF YOU SUBSCRIBE

    Look, you’ve come this far, so you must be at least a little bit interested in what MUNDIAL has to offer. Their new subscription service, Club MUNDIAL, gets you every magazine through your door throughout the year for a 23% discount on what it would cost to buy individually. If you’re in the UK, that’s just £10 every three months. And, alongside the magazine, you get discounts on loads of brilliant brands, exclusive access to events, and this very cool Club MUNDIAL membership card to show off to your friends. What’s not to love?

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