World Soccer Presents

World Soccer Presents is a bi-monthly souvenir bookazine collection from the team at Word Soccer magazine. Each issue provides expert analysis and insight into the world’s most popular sport, focusing on a specific theme, including, the world’s most important players, club, rivalries and tournaments.

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World Soccer Presents

The first five years… • Ahead of the 1961 European Cup final, the first not to feature Real Madrid, Gordon Jeffery looks back on the first five years of the tournament’s history

Irresistible Real • Brian Glanville recalls Real Madrid’s incredible run of five straight European Cup wins

Cup leaves Spain at last • Stuart Shaw’s post-mortem of the 1961 European Cup final between victors Benfica and runners-up Barcelona

Benfica keep European Cup • The Portuguese side, and defending champions, were well worth their second successive victory, as Eric Batty reports

When Eusebio ruled Europe • Brian Glanville recalls the Champions Cup success of Bela Guttmann’s side

Coluna mishap was the end of Iberian hopes • Eric Batty provides his report on the 1963 European Cup final between Italians Milan and two-time winners Benfica

Men and Marksmanship in the European Cup • Roger Macdonald researches some of the greatest goalscorers of the European Cup during the first eight years of the competition

Herrera the only guide left • Eric Batty reports from the 1964 European Cup final, which saw Helenio Herrera’s Internazionale beat Real Madrid in Vienna, Austria

Worst final since it all began • Despite Italians Internazionale becoming the third club to win backto-back European Cups, Eric Batty was unimpressed with UEFA’s decision to stage the 1965 final against Benfica at the San Siro

Il Mago’s magic circle • Brian Glanville remembers the career of legendary Internazionale coach, and two-time European Cup winner, Helenio Herrera

Ghosts of Real smile at this sixth title • Roger Macdonald reports on Real Madrid’s route to an unexpected sixth European Cup final success

Strength in teamwork • The “Lisbon Lions” became not only the first British winners of the European Cup but the first non-Latin winners, with all 11 members of the team born within 30 miles of Glasgow. Roger Macdonald reports on the final victory over Internazionale

A dream come true • Ten years on from the tragedy of the Munich air disaster, Matt Busby’s Manchester United became the first English club to win the European Cup. Philip Rising reports on their 1968 final victory over Benfica

Cricket no longer • In the 1969 European Cup final, Ajax made history by becoming the first Dutch side to reach the final, but they were put to the sword by Milan. To this date, Pierino Prati remains the most recent player to score a hat-trick in a European Cup final

Celtic lose final • A year after their compatriots Ajax’s defeat against Milan, Feyenoord claimed some sort of Dutch revenge by lifting the trophy at the San Siro. For losing finalists, Celtic, this marked the second – and most recent – European Cup final appearance in the club’s history

Final was anti-climax • Brian Glanville expresses his disappointment at the 1971 European Cup final between Ajax of Amsterdam and Greeks Panathinaikos at Wembley

Ajax were so clearly superior • Regarded as one of Total Football’s greatest moments, Eric Batty reports on Ajax’s domination over Internazionale’s catenaccio strategy at Rotterdam’s De Kuip stadium in the 1972 European Cup final

Ajax make it four in a row for Netherlands • Eric Batty reports on Ajax becoming the first team since Real Madrid to win a hat-trick of European Cups

Bayern triumph • Bayern Munich become...