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Six of the Best: Europe’s Golden Oldies

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Six of the Best: Europe’s Golden Oldies While football fans prefer to focus on youth prospects, there are those who defy their age to continue plying their trade at the highest level and excel. With that in mind, WhoScored.com present Europe’s Golden Oldies, of players in Europe aged 35 and older to have made four or more league app...

Feyenoord thriving thanks to leadership of Van Bronkhorst & Kuyt

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Feyenoord thriving  thanks to leadership of Van Bronkhorst & Kuyt When visiting De Kuip, the home of Feyenoord Rotterdam, you can't escape the smell of history; everywhere stories of their glorious past are being told, but more importantly, there are signs of a prosperous future. The club's de facto mantra – Kein geloel, fussball spielen! loosely translating...

Team Focus: Comeback Kuyt Leading Feyenoord Bid to Return to Former Glory

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Team Focus: Comeback Kuyt Leading Feyenoord Bid to Return to Former Glory Next month Ernst Happel, one of the most celebrated and influential managers in football history, would have been celebrating his 90th birthday. Aside from Vienna toasting one of their greatest sons they'll be raising a glass or two in Rotterdam. In a four-year spell with Feyenoord (1969-73) he won ...

Team Focus: Aykut Kocaman – The Fenerbahçe Architect

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Team Focus: Aykut Kocaman – The Fenerbahçe Architect Fenerbahçe have had a tumultuous few years. From alleged involvement in the match-fixing scandal that rocked the country in 2011 to being suspended from UEFA competitions for two seasons and losing club legend Alex De Souza in rather unceremonious circumstances, the Yellow Canaries were rocke...

Player Focus: The Premier League's Big Dippers

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Player Focus: The Premier League's Big Dippers Having focused on the Premier League's Most Improved Players last week it seems only fitting for the ever-judgemental WhoScored to analyse the individuals to have gone through the biggest decline this season. To do so we have calculated the greatest decrease in their WhoScored rating from last seaso...

The Premier League's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution

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The Premier League's Top 5 Wingers for Defensive Contribution Having analysed the Premier League's most prolific crossing wingers in our latest feature on wide men, we look at the top 5 in the division with regards to their defensive contribution.All figures shown relate to the performances each player made from wide positions only and are based on WhoScored.c...

Europe’s 20 Most Clinical Finishers, Season 2010/11

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Europe’s 20 Most Clinical Finishers, Season 2010/11 With 40 goals for Real Madrid last season, Cristiano Ronaldo finished the campaign as Europe’s top scorer and runaway winner of the Golden Boot, leaving the likes of Lionel Messi trailing in his wake. A closer look at his stats, however, show Ronaldo averaged an incredible 5.6 Shots per game o...